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Paralympics: Podiums of the Day MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 SPORTS Paralympics: podiums of the day RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Paralympics podiums of the day on Saturday. ARCHERY Silver: Isis Holt (AUS) Mixed Team W1 Recurve/Compound Bronze: Maria Lyle (GBR) Gold: Great Britain (Jo Frith, John Walker) Silver: South Korea (Ok Geum Kim, 400m - T12 Dongsub Koo) Gold: Omara Durand (CUB) Bronze: Czech Republic (Sarka Musilova, Silver: Oksana Boturchuk (UKR) David Drahoninsky) Bronze: Edmilsa Governo (MOZ) Individual Recurve/Compound - W1 400m - T13 Gold: Jessica Stretton (GBR) Gold: Nantenin Keita (FRA) Silver: Jo Frith (GBR) Silver: Ilse Hayes (RSA) Bronze: Vicky Jenkins (GBR) Bronze: Leilia Adzhametova (UKR) ATHLETICS 800m - T54 100m - T54 Gold: Tatyana Mcfadden (USA) Gold: Leo Pekka Tahti (FIN) Silver: Wenjun Liu (CHN) Silver: Yang Liu (CHN) Bronze: Yingjie Li (CHN) Bronze: Kenny Van Weeghel (NED) 1500m - T11 200m - T12 Gold: Jin Zheng (CHN) Gold: Leinier Savon Pineda (CUB) Silver: Nancy Chelangat Koech (KEN) Silver: Hilton Langenhoven (RSA) Bronze: Maritza Arango Buitrago (COL) Bronze: Mahdi Afri (MOR) Discus Throw - F37/38 400m - T11 Gold: Na Mi (CHN) Gold: Gerard Descarrega Puigdevall (ESP) Silver: Shirlene Coelho (BRA) Silver: Felipe Gomes (BRA) Bronze: Noelle Lenihan (IRL) Bronze: Ananias Shikongo (NAM) Javelin Throw - F12/13 400m - T38 Gold: Nozimakhon Kayumova (UZB) Gold: Dyan Neille Buis (RSA) Silver: Irada Aliyeva (AZE) Silver: Jianwen Hu (CHN) Bronze: Natalija Eder (AUT) Bronze: Weiner Javier Diaz Mosquera (COL) 100 m - T43/44 Gold: Marlou Van Rhijn (NED) 800m - T36 Silver: Irmgard Bensusan (GER) Gold: James Turner (AUS) Bronze: Nyoshia Cain (TRI) Silver: Paul Blake (GBR) RIO DE JANEIRO: In this photo released by the IOC, Italy’s Martina Caironi, center, celebrates after winning the Women’s 100m - T42 Final ahead Bronze: William Stedman (NZL) 800 m - T52/53 of Germany’s Vanessa, right, and Italy’s Monica Graziana Contrafatto, left, at the Olympic Stadium during the Paralympic Games in Rio de Gold: Hongzhuan Zhou (CHN) Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday. — AP 400 m - T45/46/47 Silver: Madison De Rozario (AUS) Gold: Ernesto Blanco (CUB) Bronze: Shirley Reilly (USA) Silver: Petrucio Ferreira Dos Santos (BRA) Rio Paralympics says ‘mission Bronze: Gunther Matzinger (AUT) Shot Put - F32 Gold: Maroua Brahmi (TUN) 400 m - T51 Silver: Noura Alktebi (UAE) Gold: Peter Genyn (BEL) Bronze: Louise Ellery (AUS) accomplished’ as Games close Silver: Edgar Cesareo Navarro Sanchez (MEX) Shot Put - F36 Bronze: Alvise De Vidi (ITA) Gold: Birgit Kober (GER) RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio Paralympics organizers Nevertheless, Rio was expected to put on a and passionate Brazilian fans providing world- Silver: Qing Wu (CHN) declared mission accomplished yesterday dazzling show at the Maracana, featuring Brazil’s class atmosphere. By the end, officials said Long Jump - T42 Bronze: Katherine Proudfoot (AUS) ahead of a closing ceremony that will celebrate rich music and dance culture to celebrate a far Saturday, they had sold 2.1 million tickets-fewer Gold: Heinrich Popow (GER) the against-the-odds success of the Games but better Paralympics than many had believed pos- than London in 2012 but more than Beijing four Silver: Atsushi Yamamoto (JPN) Discus - F54/55 also pause to remember an Iranian cyclist killed sible. years earlier. Part of that success, however, was Bronze: Daniel Wagner (DEN) Gold: Feixia Dong (CHN) in a race. “This will be a time for celebration... a final act,” due to many tickets being sold for as little as $3 Silver: Marianne Buggenhagen (GER) Eleven days of competition where China domi- said the ceremony’s producer Flavio Machado. — or given to school children in an international Long Jump - T43/44 Bronze: Diana Dadzite (LAT) nated the medals table, followed by Britain, fill-the-seats campaign. Gold: Markus Rehm (GER) Ukraine and the United States, were ending DEFYING EXPECTATIONS Silver: Ronald Hertog (NED) CYCLING - ROAD Sunday with the last few events, including Watching the Paralympic marathon along the HOT PERFORMANCES Bronze: Felix Streng (GER) Mixed H 5 Team Relay marathons and wheelchair rugby. seafront in Copacabana, spectator Marcelo The gap between the Olympic and Paralympic Gold: Italy (Vittorio Podesta, Luca And at the closing ceremony in Rio de Janeiro’s Augusto Miranda Costa said the Games had been performances is gradually blurring with disabled 4x100m Relay - T53/T54 Mazzone, Alessandro Zanardi) Maracana football stadium Brazilian officials were “a moment of magic for the city.” athletes breaking records after records in Rio. Gold: China (Yanfeng Cui, Yang Liu, Silver: United States (William officially to hand over to Tokyo for the 2020 “We’re going to miss them, yes,” he said. Among the stars were Brazil’s swimmer Daniel Huzhao Li, Chengming Liu) Lachenauer, William Groulx, Oscar Olympic and Paralympic Games. Juliana Leal Fluzer Costa, who had come from Dias who added four golds, three silvers and two Silver: Thailand (Saichon Konjen, Rawat Sanchez) “Mission accomplished,” said Carlos Nuzman, the capital Brasilia, also called the Games a suc- bronzes to his existing medal haul from Beijing Tana, Pongsakorn Paeyo, Prawat Bronze: Belgium (Jean-Francois Deberg, president of the Rio Olympic and Paralympic cess-a “nice surprise.” “We’ve seen that the people and London-which has won him descriptions as Wahoram) Christophe Hindricq, Jonas Van De organizing committee. of Rio embraced these Games,” she said. the Michael Phelps of the Paralympics. Bronze: Canada (Brent Lakatos, Curtis Steene). Referring to the political instability and deep The generally positive ending was quite the There was amazement in the 1,500m track race Thom, Tristan Smyth, Alexandre Dupont). recession hurting Brazil as it put on South turnaround from a few weeks ago when the Rio when Algeria’s Abdellatif Baka set a new record Individual C 4-5 Road Race America’s first Olympics in August and the organizers’ woeful finances in the wake of the that was actually faster than the winning time by Shot Put - F56/57 Gold: Daniel Abraham Gebru (NED) Paralympics this month, he said it had been “a August Olympics and a stunning lack of interest in Olympic gold medalist Matthew Centrowitz in the Gold: Guoshan Wu (CHN) Silver: Lauro Cesar Chaman (BRA) mission of many doubts.” tickets raised fears of failure. same stadium a month earlier. However, Silver: Janusz Rokicki (POL) Bronze: Andrea Tarlao (ITA) “But this committee never gave up,” he said. On the eve of the Paralympics, the Brazilian Centrowitz won in what was by Olympic stan- Bronze: Javid Ehsani Shakib (IRI) The upbeat mood in Rio however was darkened Senate pushed president Dilma Rousseff out of dards a near-record slow race, meaning Baka’s Individual B Road Race late Saturday by the death of Iranian cyclist office in a bitter impeachment battle. Her replace- outstanding time was of mostly symbolic signifi- 100m - T42 Gold: Vincent Ter Schure (NED) Bahman Golbarnezhad, 48. ment and fierce enemy Michel Temer was loudly cance. Gold: Martina Caironi (ITA) Silver: Ignacio Avila Rodriguez (ESP) The athlete, who wore a prosthesis on his left booed when he appeared at the opening ceremo- Once more it was China that dominated over- Silver: Vanessa Low (GER) Bronze: Steve Bate (GBR) leg, fell during a mountainous descent in the road ny on September 7. There were also tensions over all, with almost 100 medals more than its nearest Bronze: Monica Graziana Contrafatto race and died soon after of a heart attack. a ban imposed by the International Paralympic rival, Britain, which held a comfortable second (ITA) Individual C 4-5 Road Race Philip Craven, the International Paralympic Committee on the entire Russian team because of place. The big country missing in the top section Gold: Sarah Storey (GBR) Committee president, called the tragedy “truly alleged state doping. of the standings, however, was Russia, which dur- 100m - T52 Silver: Anna Harkowska (POL) heart-breaking.” A minute’s silence was planned at But while the stadiums and arenas were initial- ing the London Games won 102 medals, including Gold: Michelle Stilwell (CAN) Bronze: Crystal Lane (GBR) the closing ceremony. ly empty, the rhythm soon picked up, with noisy 36 golds. — AFP Silver: Kerry Morgan (USA) Bronze: Marieke Vervoort (BEL) Individual B Road Race Gold: Iwona Podkoscielna (POL) 200m - T35 Silver: Katie George Dunlevy (IRL) Iranian cyclist tragedy Gold: Xia Zhou (CHN) Bronze: Emma Foy (NZL) mars Rio Paralympics finale PARALYMPICS MEDALS TABLE RIO DE JANEIRO: Paralympics medals table following Saturday’s events: RIO DE JANEIRO: An Iranian Paralympic cyclist with varying disabilities but still able to bicycle. He observed during the ceremony where Brazil will was killed in a road race crash, casting a tragic was in the first section of a mountainous descent symbolically hand over to Tokyo, host of the 2020 China 105 81 51 237 India 2 1 1 4 shadow over the Rio Games on the eve of closing when he fell. “The athlete received treatment at Olympics and Paralympics. Great Britain 64 39 44 147 Lithuania 2 1 0 3 ceremony. the scene and was in the process of being taken to Organizers said that the show in the famous Ukraine 41 37 39 117 Latvia 2 0 2 4 Bahman Golbarnezhad, 48, fell during the event the athlete hospital when he suffered a cardiac football stadium will feature the best of Brazil’s rich United States 40 42 30 112 Singapore 2 0 1 3 Saturday and died of his injuries despite an arrest,” the IPC said in a statement. music and dance culture in a celebration of what Australia 21 29 29 79 Hungary 1 8 9 18 attempt to take him to the hospital for treatment, “The ambulance then diverted to the nearby many say have been a surprisingly successful Rio Germany 18 25 14 57 Azerbaijan 1 8 2 11 officials said.
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