With the World Para Athletics Championships set to start on Saturday, the Capital will witness among the finest within the enterprise competing on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium:
Athanasios Ghavelas (Greece)- 100m T11
The quickest man within the T11 class, Athanasios Ghavelas is a two-time Paralympic champion and the World Champion from the 2023 version. He’ll enter the competitors with the intention of capturing his second world title after being disqualified from the 2024 remaining. The world report holder with a timing of 10.82s runs with a information, a requirement for visually-impaired athletes.
Xiaoyan Wen (China)- 100m T37, 400m T37, Lengthy Bounce T37
He’s a serial medallist and has returned with a bagful of medals from each occasion she has participated in. She has 9 Paralympic gold medals with 5 of them coming within the 2024 Paris version, together with within the 100m T37, 200m T37, lengthy leap T37 and the 4x100m common relay.
On the World Championships, she has gained seven gold medals. She can be defending her title within the 100m T37 and likewise compete in 400m T37 and Lengthy Bounce T37 occasions.
Catherine Debrunner (Switzerland) – 100m T53
Wheelchair racer Catherine Debrunner gained 5 gold medals and one silver on the 2024 Paris Paralympics. She has eight World Championships medals, together with 5 golds – 4 of which got here at her final Worlds look in Paris.
Aside from her exploits on the Paralympics and World Championships, Debrunner is a dominant title on the wheelchair Marathon circuit profitable the Berlin and London Marathons 3 times every.
Markus Rehm (Germany) – Lengthy Bounce T64
He’s a well known title amongst followers of Para Athletics and lengthy leap. The 37-year-old, popularly often known as ‘Blade Jumper’, has gained 9 world titles and 5 Paralympic gold medals in a profession spanning over 13 years.
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Rehm holds the world report of 8.72m and is aiming to soar even additional in New Delhi.
Petrucion Ferreira (Brazil) – 100m T47
The 29-year-old sprinter is the quickest Paralympic athlete on the planet. His private better of 10.29 seconds can put able-bodied runners on their heels and the subsequent quickest Paralympic athlete is Norway’s Salum Kashafali (T12) at 10.37 seconds.
Ferreira has six World Championships golds, together with 4 within the males’s 100m T47, and is a three-time Paralympic champion within the occasion.
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