PARIS:
Teenage Chinese language swimmer Jiang Yuyan collected her seventh gold of the Paris Paralympics on Saturday, whereas the USA had been aiming to win a 3rd consecutive males’s wheelchair basketball title.
Jiang, 19, who misplaced her proper arm and leg in a automobile accident on the age of 4, landed gold quantity seven by breaking the Paralympic world file within the ladies’s 100m backstroke S6 to defeat US defending champion Jessica Lengthy on the ultimate day of the swimming programme.
She was one among a trio of Chinese language swimmers who received titles in a 30-minute interval as Paris 2024 stated goodbye to La Protection Enviornment, probably the most atmospheric of the venues for the Olympics and Paralympics.
The Chinese language then collected an extra six medals, together with a sweep of the rostrum within the ladies’s 200m particular person medley SM5, guaranteeing they completed prime of swimming’s medals desk for a fourth straight Video games.
“It is actually unbelievable for me,” stated Jiang. “I simply end every small aim, then have a relaxation and begin once more. I do not overthink it, I simply do it.”
“(Enhancing) the world file is a brand new problem for me sooner or later. Any longer, my competitor is myself,” she added.
Lengthy, a double leg amputee, received the 18th gold medal of her profession, and the thirty first total since her debut at Athens 2004, as she eased to the 100m butterfly S8.
At Bercy Enviornment, the USA males’s wheelchair workforce will goal to win a 3rd title in a row however they face a hungry Nice Britain workforce making their first look in a Paralympic last since 1996.
Sharp-shooting Workforce GB guard Gregg Warburton ought to present a take a look at for the Individuals in the identical enviornment the place LeBron James led his USA workforce to Olympic glory 4 weeks in the past.
On the Stade de France, British wheelchair racer Hannah Cockcroft received her second gold of this Video games with victory within the T34 800m. It was the ninth Paralympic title of her profession.
On the Roland Garros clay, Britain’s Alfie Hewett had one hand on the wheelchair tennis singles crown but it surely was ripped from his grasp by 18-year-old Japanese participant Tokito Oda.
Hewett, who received gold within the doubles on Friday, had a gold medal level however needed to accept silver.
In the meantime, the host nation had one thing to cheer when France received the lads’s blind soccer gold medal in a penalty shootout towards Argentina, after the match within the shadow of the Eiffel Tower completed 1-1.
The wheelchair fencing completed on the Grand Palais, a venue that has spawned tens of millions of social media images because it debuted on the Olympics, as China’s ladies received the epee workforce gold.
With a number of occasions nonetheless to be selected the penultimate day of competitors remaining, China led the medals desk with 94 golds, Nice Britain had been second on 47 golds and the USA had been third with 35.
