Kenya claims first medal at 2011 IPC Athletics World Champs
Kenya claims first medal at 2011 IPC Athletics World
Champs
The first session on day one of the IPC
Athletics World Championships saw
Kenya pick-up the first
gold medal, five World records set and 14
Championship
records smashed.
Kenya’s Abraham Tarbei took the
first gold of the Championships with victory
in a
thrilling Men’s 5,000m T46 final. The 24 year old
outpaced Ethiopia’s
Wondiye Fikre Indelbu in the final
straight to claim first place with a time
of 14:48.29.
Indelbu recorded 14:48.48 and his teammate Tesfalem
Gebru
Kebede took bronze with 14:53.32.
The
second medal event of the day saw USA’s Amanda McGrory
(T53) power to
victory in the Women’s 5000m T54 Final.
Her time of 12:52.41 put her just
ahead of
Switzerland’s Sandra Graf who claimed a T54 Championship
record with
12:52.61. Great Britain’s Rochelle Woods
took bronze in 12:52.82.
Hirokazu Ueyonabaru claimed
Japan’s first gold medal of the Championships in
a
photo finish in the Men’s 1,500m T52 Final. His time of
4:04.51 was just
ahead of Austria’s Thomas
Geierspichler (4:04.92) in silver and Spain’s
Santiago
Sanz in bronze (4:05.01).
Great Britain’s Hannah
Cockcroft came first in the Women’s T34 Final,
a
non-medal event in 33.72 – a Championship record.
The Men’s 200m T51 was won by Mexican World record
holder Edgar Cesareo
Navarro Sanchez in a time of 42.97,
a Championship record. South African
Pieter Du Preez
took silver (47.15) and Finland’s Toni Piispannen
bronze
(49.19).
In the heats of the Women’s
200m T11, Brazil’s Terezinha Guilhermina outlined
her
intention to keep her world title with a new World Record of
24.74
smashing a 10 year old record.
US racer
Jessica Galli also smashed her own Women’s 100m T53
Championship
record in the heats with a time of 17.57
seconds only to see China’s Lisha
Huang lower it
further in the very next heat to 16.94.
In the
first field event of the day the Men’s Long Jump F37/38
Final China’s
Yuxi Ma (F37) took gold with a leap of
6.07m which gave him a World record of
999 points.
Tunisia’s Mohamed Farhat Chida (F38) took silver in a
Championship record of
991 points following a 6.19m jump
and Ukraine’s Andriy Onufriyenko (F38) the
bronze with
a jump of 6.09m which equated to 978 points.
The
Women’s Club Throw F31/32/51 Final saw Tunisia’s Maroua
Ibrahim secure
gold with an impressive throw of 21.08m,
equating to 1027 points. Silver
went to Ireland’s
Catherine Wayland (13.56m 927 points) and bronze to
Great
Britain’s Gemma Prescott (16.40m 878 points).
Algeria claimed a spectacular one two in the Men’s
Shot Put F32/33 Final.
Karim Bettina, an F32 athlete, set
a World Record and took gold with a throw
of 10.89m worth
1024 points. Teammate and F33 athlete Kamel Kardjenam
who
threw 12.24m equating to 1020 points also set a World
record in claiming
silver. Czech Republic’s Roman
Musil took bronze throwing 11.07m –
980points.
In the Men’s Javelin F35/36 Final Poland’s Pawel
Piotrowski took gold with a
Championship records throw of
42.20m worth 991 points. Brazil’s Paulo Souza
took
silver (40.06m 970 points) and Wei Guo of China bronze
(51.62m 966
points).
The Women’s Shot Put
F42/44/46 Final saw two Championship records fall.
Gold
medalist and F44 German athlete Michaela Floeth set
a new record with a throw
of 12.56m/1012 points whilst
China’s F42 athlete Yongyuan Zhong took bronze
with a
put of 9.70m/957 points. Silver went to her teammate Yajuan
Jin
(12.47m/1004points).
Croatia’s Marija
Ivekovic took gold in the Women’s Discus Throw F12
(40.62m),
however China’s Liangmin Zhang, a F11
athlete, broke the World record with
her silver medal
throw (40.42m). Ukraine’s Orysia Ilchyna claimed
bronze
(38.86m).
Germany’s Heinrich Popow
improved on the bronze medal he won at the 2006
World
Championships by breaking the Championship record in the
Men’s Long
Jump F42 to take gold. His jump of 6.23 put
him ahead of teammate Wojtek
Czyz (6.14m) and Japan’s
Atsushi Yamamoto (5.93m) in silver and
bronze
respectively.
The highlight of this
afternoon’s session is likely to be the Men’s
10,000m
T54 where Britain’s David Weir will clash with
Switzwerland’s Marcel Hug.
Both this morning qualified
for the Men’s 800m Final.
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