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PARIS, France — The Paralympic Video games ended Sunday with two world data and a spectacular mild present throughout a closing ceremony dominated by French digital music

Jean-Michel Jarre bought the celebration underway on the Stade de France, coaxing dance strikes from athletes, volunteers and spectators on a day when Morocco’s Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi smashed the world document within the girls’s marathon for runners with visible impairments and Nigeria’s Folashade Oluwafemiayo of Nigeria broke her personal world document in girls’s para powerlifting.

El Idrissi ran the 42-kilometer (26.2 mile) course in 2 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds, beating the earlier document from Japan’s Misato Michishita in Hofu Metropolis in December 2020 by practically six minutes.

“I wasn’t operating for a time, just for a medal,” the 29-year-old Moroccan stated.

Compatriot Meryem En-Nourhi was simply over 9 minutes behind, adopted by Michishita, nearly quarter-hour behind the winner.

Elena Congost thought she’d received bronze, however the Spanish runner was later disqualified for releasing the tether to her information, Mia Carol Bruguera, earlier than the end.

Michishita solely came upon she was upgraded to bronze whereas on her option to doping management.

Tunisia’s Wajdi Boukhili received the lads’s T12 marathon in 2 hours, 22 minutes, 5 seconds.

Swiss wheelchair racers Catherine Debrunner and Marcel Hug received the ladies’s and males’s marathons for the T53/54 catagories.

Tatyana McFadden, probably the most adorned American wheelchair racer, was seventh within the girls’s race, simply over 12 minutes behind Debrunner. The 35-year-old leaves Paris with a silver medal from the 100 and bronze from the 4×100 common relay.

British wheelchair racer David Weir introduced his Paralympic retirement at age 45 after ending fifth within the males’s race.

Weir received six Paralympic golds, together with 4 on the London Video games in 2012, when he received the marathon, however didn’t medal in three Video games since.

Weir stated he’ll nonetheless compete in particular person races, together with the Berlin Marathon on Sept. 29.

After the marathons, spectators paid tribute to Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who died Thursday after she was set on hearth in what police stated was an attack by her partner.

Cheptegei ran the marathon on the Paris Olympics final month, and a picture of her celebrating was proven on a big display screen close to the end line Sunday as the group was requested to watch a minute’s applause in her reminiscence. The announcer referred to Cheptegei as a “sufferer of femicide.”

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, stated Friday that the city wants to honor Cheptegei by naming a sports activities venue after her.

The Netherlands’ girls’s crew defended its gold medal in wheelchair basketball with a 63-49 win over america within the last.

Bo Kramer contributed 23 factors and Mariska Beijer 22 because the Dutch made their expertise depend earlier than an appreciative crowd at a packed Bercy Enviornment.

Trailing 48-37 going into the fourth quarter, the American gamers clasped palms as they listened to teach Christina Schwab’s team-talk. Ixhelt Gonzalez lifted their hopes with 2 factors on a break, however Kramer responded with two frees after which a 3-point shot to underline Dutch management.

“For us as a crew, I don’t actually really feel like we peaked,” stated Rose Hollermann, who scored 17 for the U.S. “I believe we have now rather a lot left in our tank. I by no means felt like we bought into that circulation state as a crew, so I’m actually proud that it completed with the silver medal.”

The 28-year-old Hollermann was already wanting ahead.

“There’s much more left for us, and I believe that’s a terrific feeling for us as a crew, that we will take that and return and get again to work,” she stated.

Canada misplaced to China 65-43 earlier within the bronze-medal match.

“I’d like to return two hours. I’d prefer to restart that sport,” Canada coach Michele Sung stated.

Defending champion Oluwafemiayo twice bettered her personal world document in girls’s para powerlifting by bench-pressing 167 kilograms above her chest for one more gold within the last for ladies over 86kg.

The 39-year-old Oluwafemiayo beat her earlier finest mark from Tbilisi in Georgia in June by one kilo by lifting 166 in spherical three. Oluwafemiayo then delighted spectators at La Chapelle Enviornment by including one other kilo to the document in a powerlift.

Iran’s Ahmad Aminzadeh received the lads’s last for athletes over 107kg with a raise of 263. It was the final gold medal from 549 awarded on the Video games.

China claimed nearly twice as many gold medals – 94 to Britain’s 49 – as another nation through the Paralympics in Paris.

Altogether, China completed with 220 medals (94 gold, 76 silver, 50 bronze), in comparison with 124 for next-best Britain, adopted by 105 for the U.S. Britain’s whole included 44 silver and 31 bronze, whereas the U.S. completed with 36 gold, 42 silver and 27 bronze medals.

Brazilian athletes received 89 medals, however Dutch athletes received extra gold – 27 in comparison with Brazil’s 25.

Host nation France completed eighth within the medal desk with 19 gold medals amongst its whole of 75.