Tatyana McFadden wins 5th gold
Tatyana McFadden wins 5th gold
September 15, 2016 | 12:05 AM
American Tatyana McFadden wins the women’s 1,500m race at the Olympic Stadium during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games Tuesday. — AFP
September 15, 2016 | 12:05 AM
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A searingly hot day six of the Rio 2016 Paralympics saw 54 gold medals awarded. After competition ended Tuesday, China held a huge lead at the top of the board with 147 total medals (63 golds). The next closest country, the United Kingdom, had 75 medals in all. The Ukraine (72) was next with the United States (61) in fourth and host Brazil (43) in fifth.
Here are six of the day’s highlights:
Team USA scooped a hat trick of medals in the women’s 1,500m T54, for athletes with spinal chord injuries who use a wheelchair in track events.
The category includes 14-time world champion Tatyana McFadden, who dominated the race to push her way to a career fifth Paralympic gold medal in a Paralympic record time of 3:22.50.
She was closely followed by US teammates Amanda McGrory, who won silver in 3:22.61, and Chelsea McClammer, who took the bronze in 3:22.67.
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In this photo released by IOC, Algeria’s Abdellatif Baka narrowly wins the gold ahead of Ethiopia’s Tamiru Demisse in the men’s 1,500-meter T13 final at Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday. — AP[/caption]Adding Tuesday’s win to her 400m gold and 100m silver, McFadden is on a mission to win seven medals at Rio, a CNN website report said. Having set two personal bests in three of the finals she has contested, it’s going to take a champion to stop her.
Four very hot, very thirsty wheelchair tennis players emerged from the men’s quad doubles bronze match between Israel and Great Britain.
Israel’s Itai Erenlib and Shraga Weinberg battled against GB’s Jamie Burdekin and Andy Lapthorpe in sweltering 107.6 Farenheit heat (42C) for four hours and 25 minutes — the longest wheelchair tennis match in Paralympic history.
Finally it was the British pair who won the bronze medal, beating the Israelis 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2).
Edgar Cesareo Navarro Sánchez knows a thing or two about pressure.
From 2009-2012 he was mayor of his municipality, Nezahualcóyotl. However, entering his T51 100m final Tuesday he had the pressure of making 200 million Mexicans happy — and he didn’t disappoint, recording a season’s best of 21.96s to win bronze, Mexico’s eighth medal of the Paralympics.
The 45-year-old was left quadriplegic after being shot in the neck.
Belgium’s Peter Genyn, a former wheelchair rugby player, won gold and Mohamed Berrahal of Algeria took silver.
Powerlifter Mohammed Khalaf won the United Arab Emirates’ first medal of this Paralympics by clinching gold in the -88 kg competition.
Khalaf raised 220kg on his second attempt, a feat unmatched by Brazil’s Evanio da Silva and Mongolia’s Sodnompiljee Enkhbayar, who both lifted 210kg to win silver and bronze respectively.
British runner Georgina Hermitage won her second gold of Rio 2016 with a dominant display in the T37 400m final.
The 27-year-old blew away the rest of the field to record a world-record time of 1:00.43.
She now holds the world record in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 4x100m relay.
Australian athlete Evan O’Hanlon is set to retire following his first ever competitive defeat, citing a lack of funding as his principle reason.
The 28-year-old, who won T38 100m and 200m gold at Beijing and London, as well as 4x100m gold eight years ago, was beaten by China’s Jianwen Hu in a world record time.
Despite believing he could bounce back to reclaim his title in Tokyo, O’Hanlon is now putting family first.
Paralympians have been breaking barriers for years, but four men broke new ground when they smashed the times set in the 1,500-meter final at last month’s Olympics.
Competing in the Paralympics men’s 1,500m T13 final Monday for visually-impaired athletes, the top-four finishers all ran faster than Olympic 1,500m champion Matthew Centrowitz Jr.
Abdellatif Baka of Algeria stormed to gold in a world-record time of 3:48.29, followed by Tamiru Demisse of Ethiopia with silver and Henry Kirwa of Kenya with bronze. Remarkably Abdellatif’s brother Fouad, who just missed out on the podium in fourth place, finished in a time of 3:49.84, which would still have been fast enough to get Olympic gold.
The T13 classification is the least severe of the three classes for visually-impaired athletes at the Rio Paralympics. Unlike other categories, the runners do not use blindfolds or guides.
The able-bodied world record of 3:26.00 was set by Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj in 1998.
In this photo released by IOC, Algeria’s Abdellatif Baka narrowly wins the gold ahead of Ethiopia’s Tamiru Demisse in the men’s 1,500-meter T13 final at Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday. — AP[/caption]Adding Tuesday’s win to her 400m gold and 100m silver, McFadden is on a mission to win seven medals at Rio, a CNN website report said. Having set two personal bests in three of the finals she has contested, it’s going to take a champion to stop her.
Four very hot, very thirsty wheelchair tennis players emerged from the men’s quad doubles bronze match between Israel and Great Britain.
Israel’s Itai Erenlib and Shraga Weinberg battled against GB’s Jamie Burdekin and Andy Lapthorpe in sweltering 107.6 Farenheit heat (42C) for four hours and 25 minutes — the longest wheelchair tennis match in Paralympic history.
Finally it was the British pair who won the bronze medal, beating the Israelis 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2).
Edgar Cesareo Navarro Sánchez knows a thing or two about pressure.
From 2009-2012 he was mayor of his municipality, Nezahualcóyotl. However, entering his T51 100m final Tuesday he had the pressure of making 200 million Mexicans happy — and he didn’t disappoint, recording a season’s best of 21.96s to win bronze, Mexico’s eighth medal of the Paralympics.
The 45-year-old was left quadriplegic after being shot in the neck.
Belgium’s Peter Genyn, a former wheelchair rugby player, won gold and Mohamed Berrahal of Algeria took silver.
Powerlifter Mohammed Khalaf won the United Arab Emirates’ first medal of this Paralympics by clinching gold in the -88 kg competition.
Khalaf raised 220kg on his second attempt, a feat unmatched by Brazil’s Evanio da Silva and Mongolia’s Sodnompiljee Enkhbayar, who both lifted 210kg to win silver and bronze respectively.
British runner Georgina Hermitage won her second gold of Rio 2016 with a dominant display in the T37 400m final.
The 27-year-old blew away the rest of the field to record a world-record time of 1:00.43.
She now holds the world record in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 4x100m relay.
Australian athlete Evan O’Hanlon is set to retire following his first ever competitive defeat, citing a lack of funding as his principle reason.
The 28-year-old, who won T38 100m and 200m gold at Beijing and London, as well as 4x100m gold eight years ago, was beaten by China’s Jianwen Hu in a world record time.
Despite believing he could bounce back to reclaim his title in Tokyo, O’Hanlon is now putting family first.
Paralympians have been breaking barriers for years, but four men broke new ground when they smashed the times set in the 1,500-meter final at last month’s Olympics.
Competing in the Paralympics men’s 1,500m T13 final Monday for visually-impaired athletes, the top-four finishers all ran faster than Olympic 1,500m champion Matthew Centrowitz Jr.
Abdellatif Baka of Algeria stormed to gold in a world-record time of 3:48.29, followed by Tamiru Demisse of Ethiopia with silver and Henry Kirwa of Kenya with bronze. Remarkably Abdellatif’s brother Fouad, who just missed out on the podium in fourth place, finished in a time of 3:49.84, which would still have been fast enough to get Olympic gold.
The T13 classification is the least severe of the three classes for visually-impaired athletes at the Rio Paralympics. Unlike other categories, the runners do not use blindfolds or guides.
The able-bodied world record of 3:26.00 was set by Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj in 1998.
