Richard Whitehead has claimed gold in the 200m T42, successfully defending his title and beating ParalympicsGB teammate David Henson, who came third.
Richard who is the world record holder narrowly missed out on breaking the 23-second barrier.
by tania
Richard Whitehead has claimed gold in the 200m T42, successfully defending his title and beating ParalympicsGB teammate David Henson, who came third.
Richard who is the world record holder narrowly missed out on breaking the 23-second barrier.
by tania
Congratulations to Stef Reid who won a silver medal in the 2016 Paralympics, in the T44 long jump behind France’s Marie-Amelie Le Fur. This matched her silver from London 2012 jumping 5.64m.
Stef said: “It feels amazing to win another Paralympic medal – I was initially disappointed, but it took an amazing jump to take the gold medal today. Marie-Amelie Le Fur’s whole series was very impressive.
“Obviously the gold is what I was after, but I was proud with how I jumped and to be taking the silver medal home with me. I’m still motivated and aiming to jump even further next year. The world championships in London 2017 is a target for me, but I will take a break and see what I need to work on.”
This was Stef’s’s third Paralympic medal as she also won bronze in the 200m in 2008.
Stef is spending the rest of her time in Rio cheering on her husband Brent Lakatos in T34 wheelchair events and as a very articulate and knowledgeable commentator on the games for Channel 4.
by tania
Britain’s Richard Whitehead might have turned 40 last week but he looks better than ever, and he was given further cause for celebration as he smashed his world T42 200m world record by nearly half a second in the IPC Grand Prix.
Whitehead , who won Paralympic gold at London 2012, stormed clear of the field to win in 23.03sec, breaking his world record by 0.43sec, and afterwards promised he could go faster.
“I’m heavy in training at the moment so 23.03 is fine,” Whitehead said. “The goal is to go to Rio and put a solid 22 in. I still wanted to lower that world record.”
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Congratulations to Sophie Kamlish (Rio Paralympic hopeful) who ran a personal best 60m in her first indoor track event of the season.
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Congratulations to Charlie Lewis who ran his first 10k today – in 38:04 which isn’t far off the world record for a below knee amputee! ‘….was good fun and without any specific training so another new challenge has been raised!!’ said Charlie.