PARIS (AP) — Morocco’s Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi smashed the world document within the ladies’s marathon for runners with visible impairments on the final day of the Paralympic Video games.
El Idrissi completed in 2 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds on Sunday, beating the earlier document from Japan’s Misato Michishita in Hofu Metropolis in December 2020 by practically six minutes.
“I wasn’t running for a time, only for a medal,” the 29-year-old Moroccan mentioned. “I wasn’t aiming to get the world record, just to get the gold, and now I have both.”
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 method to doping management.
“I just couldn’t believe it,” mentioned the Japanese runner, who mentioned she acquired injured after successful the final version in Tokyo and wasn’t sure she’d be capable of race in Paris.
Tunisia’s Wajdi Boukhili received the lads’s T12 marathon.
The 25-year-old Boukhili completed in 2 hours, 22 minutes, 5 seconds, forward of Spain’s Alberto Suarez Laso and Paralympic document holder El Amin Chentouf of Morocco. All three ran season-best instances.
Swiss wheelchair racers Catherine Debrunner and Marcel Hug received the ladies’s and males’s marathons for the T53/54 catagories.
Debrunner, the world document holder, completed in 1:41:50, greater than 4 minutes forward of Australia’s Madison de Rozario and the USA’ Susannah Scaroni, who took silver and bronze, respectively.
Tatyana McFadden, probably the most adorned American wheelchair racer, was seventh, 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.
Hug received the lads’s race in 1:27:39, forward of China’s Jin Hua and Tomoki Suzuki of Japan.
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 did not medal in three Video games since.
Weir mentioned he’ll nonetheless compete in particular person races, together with the Berlin Marathon on Sept. 29.
Dutch Girls Defend Gold In Wheelchair Basketball
The Netherlands’ ladies’s group defended its gold medal in wheelchair basketball with a 63-49 win over the USA within the last.
Bo Kramer contributed 23 factors and Mariska Beijer 22 because the Dutch made their expertise rely 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 team, I don’t really feel like we peaked,” mentioned Rose Hollermann, who scored 17 for the U.S. “I think we have a lot left in our tank. I never felt like we got into that flow state as a team, so I’m really proud that it finished with the silver medal.”
The 28-year-old Hollermann was already wanting ahead.
“There’s a lot more left for us, and I think that’s a great feeling for us as a team, that we can take that and go back and get back to work,” she mentioned.
Canada misplaced to China 65-43 earlier within the bronze-medal match.
“I’d like to go back two hours. I’d like to restart that game,” Canada coach Michele Sung mentioned.
One other World Document In Powerlifting
Defending champion Folashade Oluwafemiayo of Nigeria broke her personal world document in ladies’s para powerlifting by bench-pressing 167 kilograms above her chest for an additional gold within the last for ladies over 86kg.
The 39-year-old Oluwafemiayo beat her earlier greatest 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 elevate of 263. It was the final gold medal from 549 awarded on the Video games.
China Dominates
China claimed nearly twice as many gold medals – 94 to Britain’s 49 – as some other 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 complete 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 complete of 75.
The closing ceremony was to happen later Sunday with creative director Thomas Jolly promising an enormous dance social gathering at Stade de France.
This story has been corrected to indicate that China received the bronze-medal match in ladies’s wheelchair basketball, not Canada.
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