Reigning Paralympic champion and world file holder Gia Pergolini defended her ladies’s 100-meter backstroke S13 title Friday.
PARIS, France — Tunisia’s Raoua Tlili gained her fifth consecutive gold medal in shot put at her fifth Paralympics on Friday whereas the USA captured its first gold.
Tlili’s throw of 10.40 meters on the Stade de France was adequate to win the F41 class for a 3rd straight Video games. Her first two shot put golds, in Beijing and London, had been within the F40 class. The distinction is in stature.
She is 1.33-meters (4-foot-4) tall and 34 years outdated, and pleased with her newest achievement.
“It’s not simple as a short-stature individual that’s of my age … particularly for those who compete in opposition to opponents who’re 22, 25 years outdated,” Tlili stated.
“The Algerians, the Tunisians, everybody who lives in Paris, got here and bought reunited to look at me. (I heard them saying) ‘Raoua, Raoua, gold, gold.’”
Tlili additionally gained discus gold medals in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.
Pergolini wins first gold for US
Reigning Paralympic champion and world file holder Gia Pergolini defended her ladies’s 100-meter backstroke S13 title Friday, claiming the primary gold medal for the USA.
Competing in her second occasion in Paris, Pergolini, who’s from Atlanta, opened her signature race quick and fought off fatigue over the ultimate 15 meters to complete in a time of 1 minute, 04.93 seconds.
“Normally for my 100 again, I do know I’m going out actually quick and my mindset was you’re going to exit actually quick anyway so simply tempo your self,” she stated. “I’ve carried out this so many occasions so it’s form of second nature to me.”
First para-athletics gold goes to Brazil
The primary para-athletics gold of the Paralympics was claimed by Brazil’s Julio Cesar Agripino within the males’s 5,000-meter T11 occasion for runners with a near-total visible impairment.
In a intently contested race, he broke the world file with a time of 14 minutes, 48.85 seconds, edging Japan’s Kenya Karasawa by three seconds, and fellow Brazilian Yeltsin Jacques, the earlier world record-holder.
“At present, it is my day, my title. It means loads,” Agripino stated.
Bicycle owner wins France’s second gold
France claimed its second gold medal of the Video games with bicycle owner Alexandre Léauté’s triumph within the males’s C2 3,000-meter particular person pursuit.
Léauté, who additionally gained gold in Tokyo, gained by two seconds from Ewoud Vromant of Belgium, delighting the house crowd on the vélodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Brazil begins goalball protection with win
Brazil’s males’s goalball staff began its title protection with a 13-8 win over the USA in group play.
Goalball is for the imaginative and prescient impaired, and the three-member groups put on blackout glasses. The objectives are nine-meters vast. The gang should be silent so the gamers can hear the ball with bells inside.
Leomon Moreno led Brazil with six factors. A veteran of 4 Paralympic Video games, Moreno praised the excessive degree of goalball in Brazil. “I’m very glad, as a result of I can maintain myself enjoying with these guys,” he stated.
