Doha: Martina Caironi obliterated her own 24-hour-old world record yesterday with a sensational run to win 100m T42 gold at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships.
The 26-year-old Italian ran 15.01 in Thursday’s heats, but in the final went even faster, powering home in an impressive 14.61. Germany’s Vanessa Low (15.41), the long jump gold medallist, took silver with a personal best and Brazil’s Ana Claudia Silva (16.28) claimed bronze.
“This is my personal answer back to Vanessa Low after stealing my gold medal in the long jump a few days ago,” said a delighted Caironi who took silver in that event.
“I’ve now got two world records in two days, which was my goal this year. I’m totally happy and satisfied. Now I can relax in the knowledge of my place in the Rio Paralympic Games being secured, and overall it’s a beautiful day for me.”
Two countries won their first ever world titles yesterday, the penultimate day of competition.
A highly emotional Marcio Miguel Da Costa Fernandes shed tears of joy on the podium as the Cape Verde national anthem was played for the first time at an IPC Athletics World Championships. The 32-year-old, who now trains in Bedford, Great Britain, as a result of a pre-London 2012 training camp, won the men’s javelin F44 with an African record of 56.24m.
An Oceania record by Rory McSweeney (55.80m) secured him silver and Iceland’s F42 thrower HelgiSveinsson (55.18m) picked up the bronze with a championship record.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Akeem Stewart (54.77m) finished fourth and set a new F43 world record.
Uzbekistan also claimed their first ever world title thanks to KhusniddinNorbekov’s throw of 53.81m in the men’s discus F37. The shot put bronze medallist beat Australia’s Guy Henly (53.41m) into silver and Ukraine’s MykolaZhabnyak (52.17m) into bronze. In addition to Caironi and Stewart’s performances, Poland’s MaciejLepiato and Croatia’s MikelaRistoskialso rewrote the record brooks.
Lepiato secured his third successive world title by adding 1cm to his previous best in the men’s high jump T44.
Great Britain’s Broom-Edwards (2.05m) and the USA’s Jeff Skiba (1.96m) joined Lepiato on the podium.
A final round leap of 11.67m by Ristoski, added 25cm to the 13-year-old women’s triple jump T20 world record, and secured Croatia their second Doha 2015 gold. The Portuguese pair of Erica Gomes (10.89m) and Ana Felipe (10.07m) won silver and bronze respectively.
After adding three more gold medals yesterday, Tunisia now has 10 titles, two more than their previous best at a World Championships. SomayaBousaid (4:33.51) led from start to finish to win the women’s 1,500m T13. Russia’s Elena Pautova (4:41.50) took silver and Chile’s Margarita Faundez(4:51.88) finished with bronze. A championship record by Abbes Saidi (4:09.92) won him a closely fought gold in the men’s 1,500m T38. Silver and bronze went to France’s Louis Radius (4:10.17), who ran a European record, and Australia’s Deon Kenzie (4:11.60).
Tunisia’s hat-trick of golds came in the field through MarouaIbrahmi (6.18m) who followed up club gold by topping the podium in the women’s shot put F32. Algeria’s MouniaGasmi (4.54m) and Australia’s Louise Ellery (4.26m) took silver and bronze respectively.
The first gold medal of yesterday was taken by the USA’s Deja Young (12.69) in the women’s 100m T47. The 200m silver medallist won a thrilling race that saw the top three finishers separated by 0.05 seconds. A photo finish gave China’s Yanping Wang the silver from Poland’s AlicjaFiodorow in bronze as both sprinters clocked 12.74. Days after collapsing in the 5,000m within 90 metres of gold, Brazil’s Odair Santos (4:08.48) bounced back to claim the win in the men’s 1,500m T11.
“Everything happens for a reason, I was leading in the 5,000m race but unfortunately I fell down and woke up in hospital. God has his reasons for everything and thankfully this is my redemption,”said Santos who beat Chile’s 5,000m champion Cristian Valenzuela (4:14.00) to the line. Bronze went to Turkey’s Hassan HuseyinKacar (4:16.58).
With victory in the women’s 400m T20, Poland’s Barbara Niewiedzial (57.58) became only the sixth athlete at Doha 2015 to complete a hat-trick of world titles. She added the 400m title to her 800m and 1,500m crowns leading home Ukraine’s Natalia Iezlovetska (59.19) in second and Malaysia’s Siti Noor Isaah Mohamad (1:00:35) with an Asian record in third.
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