13th Sept 2016.
1500M Top 4 Finishers in Rio Paralympics 2016 out Run Rio Olympian Gold Medalist !!
Posted on the 13 September 2016 by Sampathkumar Sampath
Singapore's
first-ever double gold Paralympian shared an emotional photo of herself
celebrating with a veteran team mate who had just won her first medal after
four Paralympics ~ and it went viral !!
Many of us followed
the 2016 Summer Olympics commonly known
as Rio 2016, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 August to 21 August 2016. More
than 11,000 athletes from 207 National Olympic Committees, including first time
entrants Kosovo, South Sudan, and the Refugee Olympic Team, took part. With 306
sets of medals, the games featured 28 Olympic sports, including rugby sevens
and golf, which were added to the Olympic program in 2009. Though the motif is
participation, the World remembers winners !
Jamaican sprinter,
superstar and crowd pleaser, Usain Bolt, ran into the record books in Rio with
his ninth Olympic gold medal. His final glory came with victory in the
4x100-meter relay after finishing first in the individual 100m and 200m. He has
repeated this astonishing feat at three successive Olympic Games -- a unique
"Triple-Triple." The fastest man on the planet has not retired yet
but has declared that Rio will be his last OIympics.
Olympic swimming
legend Michael Phelps won his 23rd gold medal in the 4x100m medley relay in
Rio. He swam the butterfly third leg that helped the US team break the Olympic
record. Nicknamed the "Baltimore Bullet," Phelps made his fifth
Olympic appearance over 16 years, won his fifth medal of the Rio Games and
cemented his place as the most decorated Olympian of all. He now has 28 medals
in total but told fans on Facebook that there would be no more. He was beaten
just once in Rio -- in the 100m butterfly -- by Singapore's Joseph Schooling,
who had been inspired by Phelps and was photographed with him as a youngster.
The
men’s 1500m final was one for the ages, although not in the way you might
expect. The gold medal was won in a time of 3:50.00, the slowest time since
1932, and the last time there was a US winner at this distance in the Olympics
was back in 1908. Matt Centrowicz, the two-time
World Championships medallist, with a bronze in 2011 and silver in 2013,
completed his collection of medals from outdoor global championships after
controlling the race almost from the gun and repelling all the attacks from his
rivals, especially over the final 250 metres. Centrowitz, surprisingly to many
still only 26, towed the field through the first 400m in a sedentary 66.83 and
then an even slower second lap of 69.76.
Not many of us may
be following Paralympic Games, a major
international multi-sport event involving athletes with a range of
disabilities, including impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of
movement, limb deficiency, leg length
difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and
intellectual impairment. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which
since the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, are held almost immediately
following the respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by
the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics has grown from a
small gathering of British World War II veterans in 1948 to become one of the
largest international sporting events by the early 21st century. Paralympians
strive for equal treatment with non-disabled Olympic athletes, but there is a
large funding gap between Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
Given the wide
variety of disabilities that Paralympic athletes have, there are several
categories in which the athletes compete. The allowable disabilities are broken
down into ten eligible impairment types. The 2016 Summer Paralympics is being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7
September to 18 September 2016. The Games mark the first time a Latin American
and South American city hosts the event, the second Southern Hemisphere city
and nation, the first one being the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, and also
the first time aLusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country hosting the event.
Abdellatif Baka of Algeria claimed the
T13 - 1,500m Paralympic title as the top four finishers all recorded times
which would have given them Olympic gold.Baka
set a world record of three minutes and 48.29 seconds to claim top spot in Rio
on Monday, more than 1.7 seconds faster than USA runner Matthew Centrowitz, who
won the men's Olympic 1,500m final last month. The Algerian led the way in a
T13 class which caters for visually impaired competitors.
13th Sept 2016.
13th Sept 2016.