Field athletes dominate Day Two of the IPC
Field athletes dominate the records on Day Two of the
IPC Athletics World Champs
Records continued to fall on
day two of the 2011 International Paralympic
Committee
(IPC) Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, New
Zealand
with field athletes securing seven of the eight
World records set.
First up was Mexico's Angeles
Ortiz Hernandes who set a new world
record
(11.21m/1002points) to claim gold in the Women's
Shot Put F57/58 Final.
Bulgaria's Stela Eneva
(10.54m/960points) took silver with Algeria's
Nadia
Medjmedj (9.48m/901points) bronze.
In the
Women's Shot Put F32/33/34 there were two World Records and
a
Championship record. Germany's Brigit Kober (9.30m/1122
points) broke the
F34 World record to secure gold whilst
Greece's Maria Stamatoula (6.60m/1053
points) beat the
F32 World record to claim silver. Australia's Louise
Ellery
(F32 6.31m/1017 points) took bronze. By throwing
6.12m/938 points Poland's
Lucyna Kornobys also set a
Championship record in the F33 class.
Next to
rewrite the record books was Pawel Piotrowski of Poland in
the Men's
Shot Put F35/36). His World record gold medal
throw of 13.77m (1007 points)
put him ahead of Russia's
Vladmir Sviridov (13.65m/1004 points) - a season's
best -
and China's Wei Guo (14.18m/988 points).
In the
Women's Long Jump F42 Kelly Cartwright jumped a World record
4.19m to
win Australia's first gold medal of the
Championships. The Netherlands'
Marije Smits came second
(3.73m) and Poland's Ewa Zielinska third (3.62) -
both
season's bests for the athletes.
After setting a new
World record at December's Asian Para Games in
Guangzhou,
China's Mingjie Gao extended his record in the
Men's Javelin T44 Final. His
throw of 59.82m was 1.29m
further than his previous record and was enough to
push
teammate Changlong Gao into silver with 55.21m - a season's
best. The
Netherlands' Ronald Hertog claimed bronze with
a throw of 52.37m.
In a thrilling Men's Discus
F37/38 the World record was broken twice first
by
Ukraine's Mykola Zhabnyak (F37 52.48m) who took silver
and then Poland's
Tomasz Blatkiewicz (F37 53.00m) who
claimed gold. Bronze saw Iran's Javad
Hardani (46.53m)
break the F38 Chamionship record.
On the track
Egypt's Mostafa Fathalla Mohammed broke the Men's 100m T37
World
record in the heats setting a time of 11.64
seconds. The final is on Monday.
The race of the
day on the track was the first battle between Great
Britain's
Dave Weir and Switzerland's Marcel Hug. In a
compelling 800m T54 race that
had the crowd on the edge
of their seats Weir smashed the Championship
record
(1:37.28) to beat Hug (1:37.30) in a photo finish.
France's Julien Castoli
(1:37.53) took bronze.
It
was Brazil's Odair Santos who kicked off proceedings on day
two with an
emphatic win in the Men's 10,000m T11 Final
in a Championship record of
32:13.02.
Silver went
to Chile's Christian Valenzuela who was more than a minute
behind
the winner in 33:21.51, whilst Mexico's Luis
Zapien Rosas took bronze in a
season's best time of
33:41.70.
In the other 10,000m race on day two
Tunisia's Abderrahim Zhiou (30:45.57)
set a Championship
record in winning gold in the T12. Algeria's
Nacereddine
Kerfas (30:49.63) took silver and Spain's
Alberto Suarez Laso (31:13.00) the
bronze.
China
dominated this morning's 100m races winning three out of
four gold
medals available.
In the Women's T53
Final World record holder Lisha Huang took gold
(17.13)
ahead of USA's Anjali Forber Pratt (17.40) and
China's Hongzhuan Zhou
(17.60).
There was a shock
in the Men's T53 Final with Huzhao Li upstaging
British's
World record holder Michael Bushell to win
gold. Li's time of 14.82 was a
Championship record and
was 0.04 ahead of the Brit. Canada's Brent Lakatos
took
bronze (15.07).
China took gold and silver in the
Women's T54 100m through Hongjiao Dong
(16.73) and Wenjun
Liu (16.78). Bronze went to USA's Tatyana McFadden
The only non-Chinese winner in the 100m was Finland's
Leo Pekka Tahti who was
victorious in a Championship
record time of 14.14 in the Men's T54.
Silver went
to Thailand's Saichon Konjen (14.41) whilst the
Netherlands'
Kenny Vam Weeghel took bronze (14.47).
In the Men's 1,500m T13 Final Morocco's Tarik Zal took
gold in 3:58.66 whilst
his teammate Youssef Benbrahim
claimed bronze (4:00.88). Silver went to
Poland's Lukasz
Wietecki (3:59.52)and Youssef Benbrahim (4:00.88)
Suffering a calf injury New Zealand's Tim Prendergast,
the World record
holder at this distance, was determined
to finish the race and hobbled to the
finish line in
seventh. He now faces a race to be fit for Friday's 800m
There were nine 200m Finals on Sunday with some thrilling races.
The Men's 200m T34 saw Mohammed
Hammadi take gold (30.14), France's Sebastien
Mobre
silver (30.39) and USA's Austin Pruitt (31.14).
The
first 200m of the afternoon session saw France's Assia El
Hannouni secure
gold in a season's best time of 25.83 in
the Women's T12 class. Silver went
to Brazil's Hanka
Kolnikova (26.38) and bronze Great Britain's
Elizabeth
Clegg (26.75).
Russia's Elena Ivanova
was victorious in the Women's T36 final running
30.40.
China World record holder Fang Wang claimed silver
(30.91) whilst Germany's
Claudia Nicoleitzik picked up
bronze (31.93).
After winning gold in the
Commonwealth Games last year, Great Britain's
Katrina
Hart was again successful this time in the Women's T37
Final. In a
breathtaking finish Hart (30.11) beat
Russia's Svetiana Sergeeva (31.02) and
Ukraine's
Viktoriya Kravchenko (31.17) into silver and bronze
respectively.
The Women's T38 Final was won by
Russia's Margarita Koptilova (28.59), whilst
Tunisia's
Sonia Mansour (28.74) took silver and Ukraine's Inna
Dyachenko
(28.76) the bronze.
After breaking the
World record in yesterday's heats, visually
impaired
Brazilian athlete Terezinha Guilhermina blew
away the field to win the 200m
T11 race by two clear
seconds (24.98). Teammate Jerusa Geber Santos
secured
silver (26.98) and bronze went to Great Britain's
Tracey Hinton.
The Championship record fell in the
Women's T46 Final after Cuba's Yunidis
Castillo ran 24.86
to take gold. Silver went to Russia's Nikol
Rodomakina
(25.94) and bronze Great Britain's Sally Brown
(26.38).
In the final 200m race of the day
Switzerland's Beat Boesch powered to
victory in a
thrilling race. His time of 32.54 was just ahead of
rivals
Mexican Salvador Hernandez in second with 32.64
and third placed Tomoya Ito
of Japan with 32.80.
The Men's 1,500m T36 saw Russia's Artem Arefyev
(4:40.17) overtake Great
Britain's Paul Blake (4:41.66)
in the final straight to secure gold. Bronze
went to
Spain's Jose Manuel Gonzalez (4:46.90).
After
Kelly Cartwright's success in the Long Jump, Richard Colman
stormed to
Australia's second gold medal in the 800m T53
in a Championship record time
of 1:41.58. Spain's Roger
Puigbo Verdaguer (1:42.17) and Korea's Byunghoon
Yoo
(1:43.20) took silver and bronze respectively.
The
Men's 400m T12 saw success for Portugal through Luis
Goncalves (49.83).
Silver went to Germany's Matthias
Schroeder (50.96) and bronze Spain's Gerard
Desgarrega
Puigde (51.88).
In the final medal event of the day
on the track, Brazil's Lucas Prado
(11.59) stormed to
victory in the Men's 100m T11 in a Championship
record.
Russia's Andrey Koptev (11.54) took silver and
Brazil's Daniel Silva (11.59)
bronze.
Earlier in
the day in the heats for the Men's 100m T38 Australia's
World
record holder Evan O'Hanlon set a new Championship
record coasting to a time
of 11.21.
The USA's
Jerome Singleton set a Season's Best of 23.28 in his heat
for the
Men's 200m T44, however it was South Africa's
Oscar Pistorius who was the
fastest qualifier in 22.52.
Both athletes believe the 200m World record
could be in
jeopardy in tomorrow's final.
In the field a throw
of 3.76m from Mexico's Estela Salas (747 points) was
good
enough to secure gold in the women's F52/53 shot put final.
India's
Deepa Malik won her country's first medal of the
Championships when she
claimed silver with a throw of
3.59m (687points), while Martha Gustafson from
Canada won
bronze 3.45m (540 points) - a Championship record for a
F52
athlete.
Tunisia won gold in the Women's Shot
Put F40 through World record holder
Raoua Tlili who set a
Championship record after throwing 9.23m.
China's
Genjimisu Meng was second (8.64m) whilst
Morocco's Laila El Garaa third
(8.54m).
In the
women's F37 discus throw, current Paralympic Games champion,
China's
Na Mi, set a new Championship record (31.46m) to
secure gold from Great
Britain's Beverly Jones (30.62m)
and Qiuping Xu (28.74) from China.
Juntingxian Jia's
leap of 4.47m in the women's long jump in the F11
final
delivered another gold medal to China, while
Paraskevi Kantza from Greece
(3.91m) and Finland's Elisa
Montonen (3.33m) were second and third
respectively.
Bulgaria's Dechko Ovcharov claimed gold in the Men's
Javelin F42 with a throw
measuring 44.44m. Norway's Runar
Steinstad was second (44.39m) and South
Africa's Casper
Schutte (39.56m).
In total eight World and 14
Championship records were broken in the morning
session
bringing the respective total for the event to 18 World and
39
Championship
records.