Early success for Brazil on day four of IPC Athletics

January 24, 2011

Early success for Brazil on day four of IPC Athletics

Brazil, with two gold medals and a world record in the first 40 minutes of competition, had a grand opening to day four of the IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch. Four world records were broken in the session.

Odair Santos led all the way in the T11 1500m and despite a buffeting wind eclipsed the world record by half a second in winning in 4:04.70 seconds. He was chased home by Samwel Mushai Kimani (Kenya) and Zhen Zhang, of China.

Twenty minutes later Brazil took out the quinella in the women’s 100m T 11 event with world record holder Terezinha Guilhermina winning gold from Jerusa Geber Santos in 12.18sec, just outside the world record she set yesterday. Chunmiao Wu (China) was third.

The wind foiled Russian Elena Pautova’s world record aspirations in the 1500m T12 where she won comfortably in 4:39.58sec from Spain’s Elena Congost and fellow Russian Rima Batalova. Tunisia’s Somaya Bousaid sat behind China’s Jin Zheng from the gun in the women’s 1500m T 13 before comfortably outsprinting her in the straight in 4:54.73secs.

In the women’s 800m T54 final Tatyana McFadden (USA), silver medallist at the Beijing Olympics, dominated the field from the gun, taking an early lead, controlling the race through the second lap then sprinting hard from the turn. She defeated Wenjun Liu (China), who trailed throughout, and Canada’s Diane Roy in a new championship time of 1:51.10.

Fellow American Anjali Forber Pratt set her second championship record in the women’s T53 200m, her 29.83sec time being nearly half a second better than yesterday. China filled the two minor places with Lisha Huiang second and Hongzhuan Zhou third.

The third world record for the morning fell in the men’s long jump F44 with Markus Rehm (Germany) leaping 7.09m from Andre Oliveira (Brazil) and Casey Tibbs (USA).

Lahouari Bahlaz (Algeria) was the star field performer of the morning session with a world record in the men’s club throw F31/32/51 with a throw of 36.73m, defeating the old record by almost one metre. Second was Radim Beles (Czech Republic) from Stephen Miller (Great Britain).

Maxim Narozhnyy, of Russia, almost followed suit being just outside the world record in the men’s shot put F42 with a throw of 14.23m, a new championship record. He was hard pushed by Darko Kralj (Croatia) and Fanie Lombaard (South Africa).

The women’s javelin F57/58 fell to Mexico’s Jeny Velazco Reyes with a throw of 29.21m, ahead of Algeria’s Safia Djelal and Kenya’s Mary Nakhumica.

In total 25 World records and 75 Championship records have been set over the four days.

For the latest Championship results, please visit the official website at
www.ipcathleticsworldchamps.com/results.php

To find out more about the athletes competing in Christchurch please visit
the Biographies section of the IPC Athletics website
at http://ipc-athletics.paralympic.org/Athletes_Biographies/

Throughout the event, www.ParalympicSport.TV will be broadcasting live
coverage of the evening sessions between 2am and 6am GMT.

You can also catch highlights from the previous day on
www.youtube.com/paralympicsporttv

In addition to the live coverage from Christchurch, Paralympic sports fans
can also get the latest news, gossip and pictures from the World
Championships via the IPC's official Facebook
page www.facebook.com/ParalympicSportTV and Twitter page
www.twitter.com/paralympic

Tickets to see the IPC Athletics World Championships, which run until 30
January are still available to buy can be purchased
from www.ticketdirect.co.nz Adult tickets cost just $10 per day.

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