Paris Paralympics Aug. 30 recap, highlights: World records fall, U.S. claims first gold medal

After taking bronze on the Tokyo Paralympics, Brazil’s Ricardo Gomes de Mendonca gained gold within the males’s 100m T37 remaining in Paris. Mendonca entered as a powerful gold medal favourite after taking gold at 2023 Worlds and delivered within the Paralympic remaining, crossing the road in a season’s greatest 11.07 seconds. Behind him, Indonesia’s Saptoyogo Purnomo took silver with a lifetime greatest 11.26, and Andrei Vdovin of the Impartial Paralympic Athletes earned the bronze medal in 11.41.

Gomes de Mondonca had historical past on his thoughts upon profitable gold.

“I’ve revenged the soccer World Cup from 1998 which Brazil misplaced on this stadium,” he stated. “We misplaced then, however now I’ve gained and that is our reply.”

U.S. star Nick Mayhugh, who gained gold and set a world file (10.95 seconds) on this occasion on the Tokyo Video games, was reclassified to T38 and can compete on Saturday.

Chinese language Paralympic legend Zhou Xia took the observe for her third Paralympic go-round and delivered together with her fifth gold medal. The 25-year-old gained the ladies’s 100m T35 in dominant style, edging countrywoman Guo Qianqian by 0.16 seconds for victory.

One other Chinese language star, Wen Xiaoyan, gained gold within the girls’s 200m T37 remaining, setting a Paralympic file within the course of. Her time of 25.86 seconds secured her seventh Paralympic medal and sixth gold. American Jaleen Roberts missed the rostrum, ending fourth, however is a critical medal contender within the 100m T37, through which she took silver on the Tokyo Video games.

The ultimate world file of the day got here courtesy of China’s Dongdong Di, who set a brand new world file in males’s lengthy soar T11, eclipsing the mark set over a decade in the past by American Lex Gillette.