SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 SPORTS

Paralympics: Podiums of the day

RIO DE JANEIRO: 2016 Summer Paralympics podiums on Friday: ATHLETICS JUDO 66 - 73kg (lightweight) 100m - T13 Gold: Ramil Gasimov (AZE) Gold: Jason Smyth (IRL) Silver: Dmytro Solovey (UKR) Silver: Johannes Nambala (NAM) Bronze: Nikolai Kornhass (GER) Bronze: (AUS) Bronze: Feruz Sayidov (UZB)

100m - T53 73 - 81kg (half-middleweight) Gold: Brent Lakatos (CAN) Gold: Eduardo Adrian Avila Sanchez (MEX) Silver: Pongsakorn Paeyo (THA) Silver: Lee Jung-Min (KOR) Bronze: Li Huzhao (CHN) Bronze: Rovshan Safarov (AZE) Bronze: Oleksandr Kosinov (UKR) 400m - T12 Gold: Sun Qichao (CHN) 52 - 57kg (lightweight) Silver: Mahdi Afri (MOR) Gold: Inna Cherniak (UKR) Bronze: Luis Goncalves (POR) Silver: Lucia Da Silva Teixeira Araujo (BRA) Bronze: Junko Hirose (JPN) 100m - T35 Bronze: Seo Ha-Na (KOR) Gold: Ihor Tsvietov (UKR) Silver: Fabio Da Silva Bordignon (BRA) 57 - 63kg (half-middleweight) Bronze: Hernan Barreto (ARG) Gold: Dalidaivis Rodriguez (CUB) Silver: Iryna Husieva (UKR) 100 m - T43/44 Bronze: Jin Song-Lee (KOR) Gold: Jonnie Peacock (GBR) Bronze: Tursunpashsha Nurmetova (UZB) Silver: (NZL) Bronze: Felix Streng (GER) POWERLIFTING 54 kg Gold: Roland Ezuruike (NGR) 400 m - T20 Silver: Wang Jian (CHN) Gold: Daniel Martins (BRA) Bronze: Dimitrios Bakochristos (GRE) Silver: Luis Arturo Paiva (VEN) Bronze: Gracelino Tavares Barbosa (CPV) 59 kg Gold: Sherif Osman (EGY) HAUTEUR - T42 Silver: Ali Jawad (GBR) Gold: Mariyappan Thangavelu (IND) Bronze: Yang Quanxi (CHN) Silver: Sam Grewe (USA) Bronze: Bhati Varun Singh (IND) 45 kg Javelin Throw - F42/43/44 Gold: Hu Dandan (CHN) Gold: Akeem Stewart (TRI) Silver: Latifat Tijani (NGR) Silver: Alister Mcqueen (CAN) Bronze: Zoe Newson (GBR) Bronze: Rory Mcsweeney (NZL) Tatyana McFadden SHOOTING JAVELIN THROW - F53/54 P1-10m Air Pistol - SH1 Gold: Manolis Stefanoudakis (GRE) Gold: Yang Chao (CHN) Silver: Luis Alberto Zepeda Felix (MEX) Silver: Lee Ju-Hee (KOR) US wheelchair racer’s bid Bronze: Aliaksandr Tryputs (BLR) Bronze: Server Ibragimov (UZB) 100m - T11 Gold: Libby Clegg (GBR) P1-10m Air Pistol - SH1 Silver: Zhou Guohua (CHN) Gold: Sareh Javanmardidodmani (IRI) Bronze: Liu Cuiqing (CHN) Silver: Olga Kovalchuk (UKR) for 7 golds falls short Bronze: Aysegul Pehlivanlar (TUR) 100m - T12 Gold: Omara Durand (CUB) RIO DE JANEIRO: US wheelchair racer Tatyana going to be tough because you have team medalist. Since hauling in three golds at the Silver: Elena Chebanu (AZE) 50m Freestyle - S7 McFadden was aiming to win seven gold medals , who is amazing at the 1 and the 4,” 2012 Paralympics, McFadden had won Bronze: Katrin Mueller-Rottgardt (GER) Gold: Pan Shiyun (CHN) at the Rio Paralympics, in every event from the McFadden said. every race in which she had competed until Silver: Ievgenii Bogodaiko (UKR) 100 meters to the marathon. “I had a bad start, but my execution was Friday. Her 20-win streak included three consec- 100m - T36 Bronze: Carlos Serrano Zarate (COL) Her bid for the unprecedented feat didn’t amazing and I really just raced with my heart utive wheelchair marathon grand slams, and a Gold: Yanina Andrea Martinez (ARG) Silver: Claudia Nicoleitzik (GER) 50m Freestyle - S10 make it past her first final, in the 100. Liu Wenjun and took in emotions from the crowd.” Born in St. sweep of the International Paralympic Bronze: Martha Liliana Hernandez Florian (COL) Gold: Maksym Krypak (UKR) of China broke ahead at the start and won Friday Petersburg, Russia, with spina bifida that left her Committee world championship in all six of her Silver: Phelipe Andrews Melo Rodrigues (BRA) in 16 seconds. McFadden closed hard over the paralyzed below the waist, McFadden started individual events, becoming the first woman to 100m - T37 Bronze: Denys Dubrov (UKR) final 40 meters, but finished second in 16.13. Li using a wheelchair at age 6, after being adopted accomplish the feat. Gold: Georgina Hermitage (GBR) Yingjie, also of China, took the bronze. by an American woman, Deborah McFadden. McFadden won bronze in the 100 in London Silver: Mandy Francois-Elie (FRA) 400m Freestyle - “This is one of my hardest races because I’m The 27-year-old McFadden graduated from and silver in . “With this silver I’m still hap- Bronze: Yescarly Medina (VEN) Gold: (AUS) Silver: Federico Morlacchi (ITA) going from the 100 to the marathon, and so to Illinois, where she joined the wheelchair basket- py, because in London I got bronze. I’m moving 100m - T38 Bronze: Lewis White (GBR) really focus on this race is quite difficult because ball and wheelchair track teams, making her up in the ranks,” she said. “I know I can do the next Gold: Sophie Hahn (GBR) I’m going against girls who just do the (100 Paralympic debut in 2004. couple races, so I just have to stay relaxed stay Silver: Veronica Hipolito (BRA) 100m Backstroke - S11 meters) and the (400 meters) and I knew it was With this silver, McFadden is a 12-time calm and really just believe in myself.” — AP Bronze: Kadeena Cox (GBR) Gold: Dmytro Zalevskyi (UKR) Silver: Wojciech Makowski (POL) 100m - T54 Silver: Bradley Snyder (USA) Gold: Liu Wenjun (CHN) Guides for blind athletes Silver: Tatyana Mcfadden (USA) 50m Butterfly - S6 Bronze: Li Yingjie (CHN) Gold: Xu Qing (CHN) Silver: Zheng Tao (CHN) DISCUS THROW - F11 Bronze: Wang Lichao (CHN) share the greatest struggle Gold: Zhang Liangmin (CHN) Silver: Tang Hongxia (CHN) 100m Butterfly - S8 Bronze: Izabela Campos (BRA) Gold: Song Maodang (CHN) RIO DE JANEIRO: After Jerome Avery failed to Silver: Xu Haijiao (CHN) CLUB THROW - F31/32 Bronze: Yang Guanglong (CHN) make the US Olympic team in the 100 meters in Gold: Maroua Brahmi (TUN) both 2000 and 2004, it seemed like his dream of Silver: Mounia Gasmi (ALG) 100 m dos - S1 international sports glory had faded away. Bronze: Gemma Prescott (GBR) Gold: Hennadii Boiko (UKR) Today, at Olympic Stadium, he will be running Silver: Francesco Bettella (ITA) for gold alongside David Brown, the current fastest JAVELIN THROW - F34 Bronze: Anton Kol (UKR) Gold: Zoi Lijuan (CHN) blind man alive. Brown is the reigning world cham- Silver: Marjaana Heikkinen (FIN) 100 m dos - S2 pion in the T11 category of the 100 meters. T11 ath- Bronze: Frances Herrmann (GER) Gold: Zou Liankang (CHN) letes are nearly or totally blind. Silver: Liu Benying (CHN) Despite his lack of sight, Brown is comfortable LONG JUMP - T43/44 Bronze: Serhii Palamarchuk (UKR) on the track due to Avery, his guide runner since Gold: Marie-Amelie Le Fur (FRA) 2014, as he sees what Brown cannot. Silver: Stef Reid (GBR) 50m Freestyle - S7 Gold: Mckenzie Coan (USA) “He’s the voice on the inside,” Brown said. “He’s Bronze: Marlene Van Gansewinkel (NED) been a guide runner for a number of years so his SHOT PUT - F41 Silver: Denise Grahl (GER) Gold: Raoua Tlili (TUN) Bronze: Susannah Rodgers (GBR) experience allows me to just focus on running at Silver: Samar Ben Koelleb (TUN) my best and nothing else.” Bronze: Claire Keefer (AUS) 50m Freestyle - S10 Guides are designated aids to visually impaired Gold: (CAN) Paralympic athletes, in sports from to CYCLING - TRACK Silver: (NZL) Bronze: Chen Yi (CHN) equestrian and soccer. Their commitment level is RIO DE JANEIRO: Sophie Thornhill, left, and her guide Helen Scott of Team Great Britain com- Individual C1 Pursuit parallel to their athletes’-training alongside them Gold: Li Zhangyu (CHN) pete in the Women’s B 1,000M time trial final at the 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, 400m Freestyle - S9 day in and day out. This is the first Paralympics at , on Friday. — AP Silver: Ross Wilson (CAN) Gold: Nuria Marques Soto (ESP) Bronze: Arnoud Nijhuis (NED) which guides are receiving medals. “When you’re Silver: (AUS) running alone, it’s more selfish,” said Chris Clarke, the Bronze: Jialing Xu (CHN) INDIVIDUAL C2 PURSUIT guide for British sprinter Libby Clegg, who won the Gold: Liang Guihua (CHN) 100m Backstroke - S11 T11 women’s 100 meters on Friday. “As a guide, I’ve Blind photographer gets Silver: Tristen Chernove (CAN) Gold: (NZL) got to look out for Libby — set her (starting) blocks Bronze: Louis Rolfe (GBR) Silver: Cai Liwen (CHN) up and give her cues every now and then. It’s inter- Bronze: Maja Reichard (SWE) esting, I like it. It’s like being part of a Formula One his vision of Paralympics INDIVIDUAL C3 PURSUIT Gold: (AUS) 50m Butterfly - S6 team.” Clarke and Clegg were caught in controversy Gold: Ellie Robinson (GBR) Friday, when Clegg was disqualified after the T11 RIO DE JANEIRO: Joao Maia is one of many talent- They help me with the editing, which I could nev- Silver: Joseph Berenyi (USA) ed photographers covering the Rio Paralympics, er do, and they put my pictures up on social net- Bronze: Eoghan Clifford (IRL) Silver: Oksana Khrul (UKR) 100-meter semifinal because it appeared Clarke Bronze: (AUS) but with a twist: he can’t see what he shoots. “You works,” he said. The blind photographer’s broke the rules by pulling her during the race. The don’t need to see to take photographs. My eyes are Instagram account @joaomaiafotografo now has INDIVIDUAL C4-5 1KM TIME TRIAL 100m Butterfly - S8 ruling was appealed and overturned. in my heart,” he said at the Engenhao athletics sta- some 1,800 followers. Gold: Jody Cundy (GBR) Gold: Kateryna Istomina (UKR) “This is my third Paralympic games, I would nev- dium. Somehow the blind photographer pulls off Silver: Jozef Metelka (SVK) Silver: Stephanie Slater (GBR) er want to dishonorably win a medal,” Clark said. Bronze: Alfonso Cabello Llamas (ESP) what might seem like an impossible task. His pic- INTIMACY Bronze: Jessica Long (USA) “For me, I was a little upset that allegation was tures have magazine quality, seemingly taken by a Maia turned away from the track shots and made against me and I’m just glad that I have a fan- normally sighted professional. found satisfaction instead at the longjump pit, INDIVIDUAL B 1KM TIME TRIAL 100 m dos - S2 Gold: Sophie Thornhill (GBR) Gold: Pin Xiu Yip (SIN) tastic team fighting in my corner.” For example, there’s his shot of the world where the small dimensions and close-up dramas Silver: Larissa Klaassen (NED) Silver: Feng Yazhu (CHN) US triple and long jumper Lex Gillette and his recording setting longjump by French athlete are perfect. But he is always trying to improve. Bronze: (AUS) Bronze: Iryna Sotska (UKR). — AFP guide, Wesley Williams, have worked together for Marie-Amelie Le Fur: it captures her expression as nine years and are roommates in Chula Vista, Calif. she falls and the sand arcs up perfectly around her. “He’s basically my brother,” said Gillette, who won a Maia, 41, lost his sight when he was 28 after suf- fourth consecutive Paralympic silver in the long fering uveitis, an inflation of the eye. It took a year, PARALYMPICS: MEDALS TABLE jump Thursday and celebrated on the medal stand but finally he was left unable to see anything more with Williams at his side. “If I need anything, he’s than shapes and some colors when he is close RIO DE JANEIRO: China dominated the medals table at the Paralympics after Friday’s there to the rescue.” Williams was a top sprinter at enough. Working as a postman in Sao Paulo, Maia learned to use a cane and took classes in Braille. He action, leading the way with 20 gold medals, well clear of nearest rivals Britain with 12. Cal-State Northridge before hearing about guide running from a friend. He attended a camp through also began to become interested in photography. Gold Silver Bronze Total Egypt 1 0 0 1 Team USA where he and Gillette hit it off. “Photography is about sensitivity. I think it’s mar- China 20 17 12 49 Kazakhstan 1 0 0 1 velous to be able to show how I perceive the world, Great Britain 12 6 9 27 Latvia 1 0 0 1 how I see it, sense it,” he said. Ukraine 7 6 13 26 Singapore 1 0 0 1 INSTRUCTIONS United States 3 8 3 14 SouthAfrica 1 0 0 1 In addition to Paralympic silver and the last two BORROWED EYES Brazil 3 6 2 11 Trinidad and Tobago 1 0 0 1 world championship golds in the long jump, With a camera in one hand and cane in the oth- Australia 3 2 6 11 Vietnam 1 0 0 1 Williams has helped Gillette to the world record in er, Joao joined the sports photographers on the Uzbekistan 3 2 6 11 Algeria 0 3 2 5 the event (22 feet, 1 inch). Gillette is the only totally tribune at the Paralympic stadium this week. He’d Canada 2 3 0 5 Poland 0 3 0 3 blind man to eclipse 22 feet. got practice in sports photography during the South Korea 2 2 3 7 0 2 0 2 When Gillette is preparing to jump, Williams warm-up events staged over the last year for the RIO DE JANEIRO: Blind Brazilian photogra- 2 2 2 6 Japan 0 1 3 4 2 1 1 4 Venezuela 0 1 1 2 stands in the middle of the jumpboard, calling out Rio Olympics, where the small crowds were perfect pher Joao Maia takes pictures with his Cuba 2 1 0 3 Finland 0 1 0 1 instructions. He jumps off to the left or right just for allowing him to concentrate on using his sense smartphone using the sound as a refer- 2 1 0 3 Jordan 0 1 0 1 before the jump, depending on where he thinks of hearing. His first thought was to photograph ence during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Mexico 2 1 0 3 Lithuania 0 1 0 1 Gillette should go. “We train every day, putting the track races, but he found the scale and dis- Games in Rio de Janeiro. — AFP Tunisia 2 1 0 3 Morocco 0 1 0 1 each other in different positions,” Williams said. tances too hard. “When I am close enough I feel the Greece 2 0 2 4 Namibia 0 1 0 1 “Just him knowing that I got his back and me runners’ heartbeats, their steps,” he said, “and then “This is good. They’re raking the sand, right?” he 1 4 7 12 Thailand 0 1 0 1 knowing he’s got mine and we groove from there.” I’m ready to take the picture. But with noise and asks, listening carefully. “Have I got the zoom Germany 1 4 4 9 UAE 0 1 0 1 In cycling, the guide and athlete work in teams distance I find it difficult.” Although he started with right?... Tell me when they start to run so that I am Azerbaijan 1 2 1 4 Colombia 0 0 2 2 called tandems. The guide, called the pilot, sits in a traditional camera when he first became serious ready.” Then as the athletes come flying in, he takes Iran 1 1 0 2 Cap Verde 0 0 1 1 in 2008, he now uses a latest generation smart- striking picture after picture. Nigeria 1 1 0 2 Croatia 0 0 1 1 front of a two-person bike and steers. The guide has to be just as fit and skilled as the athlete, phone, which he says has excellent focusing. One gets Le Fur wrapped in a French flag, with Slovakia 1 1 0 2 Hungary 0 0 1 1 Helping him are the people he calls his bor- just her prosthetic leg emerging. Another shows called the stoker, as they both pedal. “As a team we Turkey 1 0 2 3 Indonesia 0 0 1 1 rowed “eyes”-Leonardo Eroico and Ricardo Rojas, Dutch athlete Marlene van Gansewinkel and Argentina 1 0 1 2 Mongolia 0 0 1 1 have to stay in sync in all areas, and it can be really whose Mobgrafia initiative promotes art photog- Britain’s talking while waiting for the Belarus 1 0 1 2 Norway 0 0 1 1 tough when you’re constantly seeing great times raphy using cellphones. Maia and another pho- end of the event. “It’s not just action I want to cap- India 1 0 1 2 Portugal 0 0 1 1 being put up right before you go,” said British pilot tographer, who is confined to a wheelchair, are ture but the intimacy,” he says. Maia once tried to Ireland 1 0 1 2 Romania 0 0 1 1 Helen Scott, who, working with stoker Sophie documenting the Paralympics with their encour- get into Paralympic sport himself, but found the Kenya 1 0 1 2 Sweden 0 0 1 1 Thornhill, set a Paralympic record Friday in the agement. “Without them I could do nothing. athletic level too high. — AFP 1000 meters in the B category. — AP