Paralympic Video games, Day 3: World Data For Nice Britain Duo Stephen Clegg & Will Ellard
Nice Britain’s Stephen Clegg set a world file of 59.02 en-route to gold within the males’s S12 100m backstroke on the third day of the Paralympics in Paris.
The 28-year-old led all through, extending his benefit on the second 50 to assert his first Paralympic title within the first occasion of the night at La Protection Enviornment.
Teammate Will Ellard made it two world data in as many males’s races when he went 1:51.30 within the S14 200m freestyle.
Ma Jia lowered her personal WR within the S11 50m freestyle to twenty-eight.96 within the closing race of the session.
Males’s S12 100m Backstroke
Clegg, who received bronze on the Tokyo Paralympics three years in the past, served discover of his intent when he topped the prelims in 1:00.00, 0.65 off the world file of 59.35 held by Aleksandr Nevolin-Svetov since London 2012.
He emerged within the result in flip in 28.48 forward of defending champion Raman Salei of Azerbaijan and was a bodylength forward at 75m and regardless of tiring in direction of the tip, the Briton completed 0.33 contained in the WR.
Salei was second in 1:00.67 with Yaroslav Denysenko of Ukraine claiming bronze in 1:01.52.
Girls’s S12 100m Backstroke
Maria Carolina Gomes Santiago of Brazil led all through to take the title in 1:08.23, an Americas file, forward of Anna Stetsenko of Ukraine (1:09.43) and Maria Delgado Nadal of Spain (1:11.33).
Males’s S14 200m Freestyle
Ellard set the second WR of the session as he took 1.1secs off Reece Dunn’s customary of 1:52.40 from Tokyo.
The 18-year-old, who’s making his Paralympic debut, break up 25.93/53.88/1:22.85 earlier than coming dwelling in 28.97 for the title.
Nicholas Bennett of Canada took silver in 1:53.61 forward of Australian Jack Eire whose time of 1:53.77 was an Oceania file.
Girls’s S14 200m Freestyle
Impartial Paralympic Athlete Valeriia Shabalina loved victory by greater than two seconds, extending her lead all through to take gold in 2:05.14.
Poppy Maskill – who set a WR within the S14 100 fly on the opening day in Paris – received silver in 2:07.16 regardless of the quick end of Nice Britain teammate Louise Fiddes (2:07.91).
Males’s S8 100m Backstroke
Inigo Llopis Sanz of Spain upgraded Tokyo silver to Paris gold as he dominated the race in 1:05.58.
Japan’s Kota Kubota, who was fifth three years in the past, claimed silver in 1:07.03 with Israel’s Mark Malyar shifting from fourth on the flip to take bronze in 1:07.42.
Girls’s S8 100m Backstroke
Alice Tai has eight world titles and 5 European golds however she was searching for her first particular person Paralympic crown, three years after withdrawing from Tokyo with an elbow damage.
The Briton dominated the race and got here dwelling for victory in 1:09.06, reducing Stephanie Millward’s Paralympic Video games file of 1:13.02 set at Rio 2016 within the course of.
It was Tai’s third Paralympic medal following gold within the 4x100m medley 34pts and 100 again bronze in Rio.
Viktoriia Ishchivlova, a Impartial Paralympic Athlete, was second in 1:14.97 with Germany’s Mira Jeanne Maack third in 1:18.36.
Zheng Tingting set an Asian file of 1:18.96 in fourth.
Males’s S13 400m Freestyle
Ihar Boki arrived in Paris with 16 golds amongst 18 Paralympic medals throughout three Video games following his debut at London 2012.
He received two golds in as many days at La Protection Enviornment within the S13 100m butterfly and 100m backstroke earlier than he returned for the 400 free.
The 30-year-old Belarusian, who’s competing as a Impartial Paralympic athlete, was 0.37 behind Alex Portal at 300m with the Frenchman having led from the beginning.
Boki, nonetheless, made his transfer and went forward on the penultimate 50 earlier than coming dwelling in 3:58.37 to assert the seventeenth title of his profession thus far.
Alex Portal was second in 4:00.21 to assert his third silver of the meet in entrance of his dwelling crowd following second within the S13 100m butterfly and 100m backstroke together with his brother Kylian – who swims within the S12 classification – becoming a member of him on the rostrum.
Kylian got here from fourth on the closing flip to return via for third in a Paralympic S12 file of 4:05.99.
Girls’s S13 400m Freestyle
Olivia Chambers of the USA received six medals on the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships in Manchester together with silver behind Carlotta Gilli over eight lengths.
The American led from begin to end to assert her first worldwide title in 4:29.93 forward of Italian Gilli (4:31.83) and reigning champion Anna Stetsenko, the Ukrainian setting an S12 Paralympic file of 4:36.17.
Males’s S1 50m Backstroke
Kamil Otowski of Poland added the 50 title to his 100 gold in 1:07.95 adopted dwelling by Italy’s Francesco Bettella, who upgraded Tokyo bronze to silver in 1:13.90, and Anton Kol of Ukraine (1:14.44).
The identical three males additionally occupied the 100 podium albeit with Bettella and Kol swapping steps.
Males’s S2 50m Backstroke
Gabriel Araujo additionally doubled up with victory over one size in 50.93, an Americas file, his second straight gold within the occasion. It adopted his S2 100 win with which he claimed Brazil’s first gold of the Video games.
Vladimir Danilenko, swimming underneath the NPA banner, took silver in 57.54 with Alberto Abarza Diaz third in 58.12.
Girls’s S2 50m Backstroke
Singaporean nice Yip Pin Xiu dominated in 1:05.99 to assert her fourth straight one-length title, relationship again to Beijing the place she competed within the S3 classification and subsequently in S2.
It was her seventh gold medal and the excellent method of her victory was in stark distinction to the S2 100m backstroke which she received by 0.06 forward of Haidee Aceves of Mexico on the opening night time.
Aceves repeated her second place in 1:08.96 with 48-year-old Theresa Parales third in 1:10.95, 24 years after she received bronze amongst 5 medals at Sydney 2000.
Males’s SM7 200m IM
Inaki Basiloff of Argentina got here from second on the closing flip to take the win in 2:29.81, 0.80 off the Paralympic file.
Andrii Trusov replicated his Tokyo silver in 2:29.93 with fellow Ukrainian Yevheni Bohodaiko shifting from sixth at 150m to take third in 2:33.13.
Christian Sadie of South Africa set an African file of two:35.02 in fifth.
Girls’s SM7 200m IM
Mallory Weggerman of the USA dominated the ladies’s race to retain her title in 2:53.29 and within the course of decrease her personal Paralympic file of two:54.25 set in Tokyo.
Tess Routliffe of Canada moved from fifth to second on the breaststroke leg, a place she maintained till the wall in 2:57.17 with Julia Gaffney making it a USA 1-3 in 3:01.27.
Iona Winnifrith of Nice Britain set a European file of three:03.25 in fourth.
Males’s S11 50m Freestyle
Keiichi Kimura stormed to victory in 25.98, eight years after silver at Rio 2016. it was the second Paralympic title of the Japanese swimmer’s profession following gold within the S11 100m butterfly in Tokyo through which he may also compete in Paris.
Wendell Belarmino of Brazil and China’s Hua Dongdong – gold and silver medallists in Tokyo – shared silver in 26.11.
Girls’s S11 50m Freestyle
Ma Jia set a WR of 29.20 en-route to gold in Tokyo however she took 0.24 off that mark in Paris to defend her title, a 12 months after successful the world title in Manchester.
The Chinese language swimmer received the SM11 200IM three years in the past and can search to retain that title in addition to taking over the S11 100m backstroke and breaststroke.
Karolina Pelendritou, swimming underneath the NPA banner, was second in 29.82 with Maryna Piddubna of Ukraine third in 30.30.
