Morocco’s El Idrissi smashes women’s marathon world record on the last day of the Paralympic Games

PARIS (AP) — Morocco’s Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi has smashed the world report within the ladies’s marathon for runners with visible impairments on the final day of the Paralympic Video games.

El Idrissi completed in 2 hours, 48 minutes and 36 seconds on Sunday, beating the earlier report from Japan’s Misato Michishita in Hofu Metropolis in December 2020 by almost 6 minutes.

“I wasn’t working for a time, just for a medal,” the 29-year-old Moroccan mentioned. “I wasn’t aiming to get the world report, simply to get the gold, and now I’ve each.”

Compatriot Meryem En-Nourhi was simply over 9 minutes behind, adopted by Michishita, virtually quarter-hour behind the winner.

Elena Congost thought she’d received bronze, however the Spanish runner was later disqualified for releasing the tether to her information, Mia Carol Bruguera, earlier than the end.

Michishita solely discovered she was upgraded to bronze after doping management.

“I simply couldn’t imagine it,” mentioned the Japanese runner, who mentioned she acquired injured after successful the final version in Tokyo and wasn’t sure she’d have the ability to race in Paris.

Tunisia’s Wajdi Boukhili received the boys’s T12 marathon.

The 25-year-old Boukhili completed in 2 hours, 22 minutes and 5 seconds, forward of Spain’s Alberto Suarez Laso and Paralympic report holder El Amin Chentouf of Morocco. All three ran season-best instances.

Swiss wheelchair racers Catherine Debrunner and Marcel Hug received the ladies’s and males’s marathons for the T53/54 catagories.

Debrunner, the world report holder, completed in 1:41:50, greater than 4 minutes forward of Australia’s Madison de Rozario and the USA’ Susannah Scaroni, who took silver and bronze, respectively.

Tatyana McFadden, probably the most adorned American wheelchair racer, was seventh, simply over 12 minutes behind Debrunner. The 35-year-old leaves Paris with a silver medal from the 100 and bronze from the 4×100 common relay.

Hug received the boys’s race in 1:27:39, forward of China’s Jin Hua and Tomoki Suzuki of Japan.

Dutch ladies defend gold in wheelchair basketball

The Netherlands’ ladies’s group defended its gold medal in wheelchair basketball with a 63-49 win over the USA within the closing.

Bo Kramer contributed 23 factors and Mariska Beijer 22 because the Dutch made their expertise rely earlier than an appreciative crowd at a packed Bercy Area.

Trailing 48-37 going into the fourth quarter, the American gamers clasped palms as they listened to teach Christina Schwab’s team-talk. Ixhelt Gonzalez lifted their hopes with 2 factors on a break, however Kramer responded with two frees after which a 3-point shot to underline Dutch management. Rose Hollerman scored 17 for the U.S.

Canada defeated China 65-43 earlier for the bronze medal.

One other world report in powerlifting

Defending champion Folashade Oluwafemiayo of Nigeria broke her personal world report in ladies’s para powerlifting by bench-pressing 167 kilograms above her chest for one more gold within the closing for ladies over 86kg.

The 39-year-old Oluwafemiayo beat her earlier greatest mark from Tbilisi in Georgia in June by one kilo by lifting 166 in spherical three. Oluwafemiayo then delighted spectators at La Chapelle Area by including one other kilo to the report in a powerlift.

Iran’s Ahmad Aminzadeh received the boys’s closing for athletes over 107kg with a carry of 263.

The closing ceremony was to happen later Sunday with inventive director Thomas Jolly promising an enormous dance occasion at Stade de France.

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