On Thursday afternoon on the Para Athletics World Championships in Paris, Toronto’s Marissa Papaconstantinou sprinted to a 100m private better of 12.95 seconds to win a bronze medal within the ladies’s T64 100m last. Her bronze is one in every of 9 medals Staff Canada has gained at these Video games thus far.
🇳🇱@FleurJong_ is unstoppable ⏩⏩
After the gold within the lengthy soar T64, she now turns into world champion within the ladies’s 100m T64 with 12.47🥇🥇
🥈Sara BARRIO 🇪🇸
🥉Marissa PAPACONSTANTINOU 🇨🇦📊Schedule & outcomes: https://t.co/iDFcKODdZE @Paralympisch @TeamNLtweets pic.twitter.com/0rTK0AM3jT
— #ParaAthletics #PARIS23 (@ParaAthletics) July 13, 2023
Papaconstantinou blazed out of the beginning blocks, taking an early lead within the first 30 metres. Nonetheless, the Netherlands’ Fleur Jong used her lengthy stride to her benefit, surging previous Papaconstantinou to win gold in 12.47 seconds. Spain’s Sara Andres Barrio simply handed the Canadian earlier than the road, taking silver at 12.83 seconds. This was Papaconstantinou’s first time working beneath 13 seconds within the T64 100m.
This additionally marked her first medal within the T64 100m at a Para Athletics World Championship. She gained a bronze medal in the identical occasion at the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo. The 23-year-old trains in Toronto beneath College of Toronto observe and discipline coach Bob Westman.
The T64 classification is for athletes with the absence of 1 leg beneath the knee. All T64 athletes have problem accelerating evenly out of the blocks and sustaining a good stride, notably within the drive part of the race.
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Three extra medals for Canada
Papaconstantinou’s bronze was one in every of three medals for Staff Canada on the Para Athletics World Championships on Thursday. Austin Smeenk of Oakville, Ont. gained his second medal of the Video games, successful a silver within the males’s T34 100m, including to the bronze he already gained within the T34 400m on Tuesday.
ZACH GINGRAS TAKES HOME THE 🥈
Zach Gingras runs the M T38 400m in 50.32s setting a private finest and 🇨🇦 file
Zach Gingras court docket le 400m M T38 en 50.32s établissant un file personnel et un 🇨🇦 file
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— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) July 13, 2023
Zachary Gingras of Markham, Ont., gained silver within the males’s T38 400m in a brand new private finest time of fifty.23 seconds. Gingras, 21, upgraded his bronze inserting from two years in the past on the Tokyo Paralympics in the identical occasion.
Twenty-five Para athletes are in Paris to characterize Canada from July 8 to 17 on the 2023 Para Athletics World Championships. CBC Sports activities is streaming the occasion on CBCSports.ca, CBC Gem and the CBC Sports activities app for cellular units. The schedule is out there right here.
