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US Wheelchair Racer's Bid for 7 Golds Falls Short SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 SPORTS Paralympics: Podiums of the day RIO DE JANEIRO: 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: Chad Perris (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: Liam Malone (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) SWIMMING 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 China, who is amazing at the 1 and the 4,” 2012 London 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 - S9 “This is one of my hardest races because I’m The 27-year-old McFadden graduated from and silver in Athens. “With this silver I’m still hap- Bronze: Yescarly Medina (VEN) Gold: Brenden Hall (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: Aurelie Rivard (CAN) Paralympic athletes, in sports from track and field to CYCLING - TRACK Silver: Sophie Pascoe (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 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, 400m Freestyle - S9 day in and day out. This is the first Paralympics at Brazil, 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: Ellie Cole (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: Mary Fisher (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: David Nicholas (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: Tiffany Thomas Kane (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.
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