- First medals for Saudi Arabia and Jordan
- Gold girl JIANG makes it four
- Historic first ever gold in Para Archery for India
- China’s Lingling in record breaking form at the Powerlifting.
Goalball semi-finals took place and the men’s category had an all-Asian affair when China met Japan. The Japanese men proved too strong for China and won 13-5, they will now face Ukraine in the final whilst China will meet Brazil in the bronze medal game. In the women’s category China narrowly lost their semi-final to Israel 2-1 and like the men, will now play Brazil in the bronze medal game.
India won its first ever gold medal in Para Archery when Harvinder SINGH won the Men’s Individual Recurve Open event. Iran’s Mohammed Reza ARAB AMERI took bronze in the same event.
In the Para Athletics, Abdulrahman ALQURASHI won gold in the Men’s T53 100m. This was his country’s first medal of the Paris games and only the second ever Paralympic gold medal that they have won.
At the Powerlifting, Jordan’s Omar Sami Hamadeh QARADA lifted 181kg to win the Men’s up to 49kg event. This gold took his country straight onto the medal table in 52 position. Kazakhstan also won their first gold medal of the games when David DEGTYAREV won the Men’s up to 54kg final, thus retaining his Paralympic crown from Tokyo. Speaking after the event he said; “I’m very happy. After Tokyo (2020 Paralympic Games) I prepared myself non-stop all three years, aiming to win again. God helped me. He was with me and with his help I was able to win today.”
China’s GUO Lingling broke the world record twice – 122kg and 123kg – on the way winning the gold in Women’s -45kg event. An elated Lingling said after her record-breaking show; “The atmosphere of the audience is so great, and I feel very excited about setting a world record. The secret is just sticking to powerlifting and being persistent with it. If someone would break my Paralympic and world record, it would be fine because it is good for the competition. That means we can make progress.”
In the pool China’s golden girl JIANG Yuyan did it again, winning gold in the Women’s 100m Freestyle S7 knocking a second of her own World Record in the process. This takes her gold medal tally for this games to four. She won an incredible seven gold medals at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games and with three more events to go in Paris, could she match this?!
In Wheelchair Tennis, Japan’s Yui KAMIJI won her semi-final to set up a final against de GROOT from the Netherlands. In the men’s event, Japan’s Tokito ODA beat EGBERINK from the Netherlands to set up a semi-final against Argentina’s FERNANDEZ. Both ODA and KAMUJI will also compete in the Gold medal match of the Doubles event.
