PARIS (AP) — One month after Tara Davis-Woodhall’s Olympic title within the lengthy bounce, her husband Hunter Woodhall, a double amputee, gained his personal Paralympic gold medal Friday on the Stade de France.
Davis-Woodhall’s rush into the stands for a celebratory hug from her husband grew to become a viral second in the course of the Olympics, and the roles switched this time within the Paralympics.
Woodhall gained the T62 400 meters in 46.36 seconds, leaving Germany’s Johannes Flooring the silver in 46.90 and the Netherlands’ Oliver Hendricks the bronze in 46.91.
Woodhall, who raced for the able-bodied monitor staff in school at Arkansas, additionally gained a bronze medal as a part of America’s 4×100 common relay staff. This comes a 12 months after he didn’t make it to the beginning line at Para world championships as a result of his prosthetics have been malfunctioning.
“This is sort of a fever dream,” Woodhall mentioned. “I’m so filled with feelings proper now. It’s so unbelievable. I’ve been ready so lengthy and gone by way of a lot stress and fear about attaining this. Once I crossed the road, I used to be like, ‘Am I actually first this time or am I nonetheless dreaming?’”
An finish to Dutch dominance in wheelchair tennis
Yui Kamiji swept the ladies’s wheelchair tennis competitors on the Paris Paralympics.
She gained the singles remaining over Dutch favourite Diede De Groot 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 at Roland Garros.
The day earlier than, Kamiji gained her first gold medal within the doubles with Japan teammate Manami Tanaka. They beat De Groot and Aniek Van Koot.
“I simply can’t describe how massive that is,” Kamiji mentioned. “Yesterday, after the doubles match ended, I wasn’t happy. I began to consider the singles.”
Wheelchair tennis formally joined the Paralympics in 1992. Since then, solely Dutch gamers had gained the ladies’s singles and doubles.
De Groot was the defending champion in each.
“I’m simply actually unhappy that I couldn’t get the gold medal,” she mentioned. “The expectations are excessive. Sadly I couldn’t stay as much as it.”
Jincheng earns 4th swimming gold
Star Chinese language swimmer Guo Jincheng gained a fourth gold medal at these Video games.
Guo claimed the S5 50-meter butterfly in 30.28 seconds, a world and Paralympics report.
Two countrymen accomplished the rostrum, Yuan Weiyi and Wang Lichao.
The 23-year-old Guo, who doesn’t have arms, has gained on-line recognition for his dolphin-like swimming model, which depends on the power of his legs.
“I don’t pay a lot consideration to the Web, particularly worldwide web sites, so I really feel very joyful to be talked about on the Web,” Guo mentioned. “I really feel proud that the web sites are taking note of me.”
General, Guo has six medals from these Video games and set two world information.
Storey wins her nineteenth gold
British biking star Sarah Storey claimed her nineteenth gold medal within the ladies’s C4-5 highway race.
The 46-year-old Storey completed simply forward of French teenager Heidi Gaugain in a dash to the road as each accomplished the 71-kilometer course within the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 24 seconds.
“I knew we had an amazing breakaway, we constructed up a great lead,” Storey mentioned. “Then Heidi Gaugain attacked with a lap and a half to go. Happily I communicate a little bit of French so I understood what she was informed. So I used to be able to assault together with her.
“I’m simply delighted that my wheel was in entrance on the end.”
Colombia’s Paula Andrea Ossa Veloza was 20 seconds behind for bronze.
Storey gained the C5 particular person time trial for her 18th Paralympic gold on Wednesday.
She additionally gained the time trial and highway race on the Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and London Video games, whereas she gained a ladies’s LC1/LC2/CP4 time trial in Beijing in 2008.
She has 5 extra Paralympic gold medals from the monitor, and but extra from swimming since she gained her first gold within the pool in Barcelona in 1992.
The Paris Video games are her ninth Paralympics.
China units world information in relay
China set a world report within the 4×100 common relay, clocking 45.07 seconds within the remaining.
It beat its personal earlier report of 45.09 from the heats.
The 4×100-meter common relay is a mixed-gender and mixed-disability race that includes two males and two ladies with totally different disabilities.
Every staff begins with a visually impaired athlete, adopted by an amputee sprinter, then an athlete with cerebral palsy, and finishes with a wheelchair racer.
China’s staff was Zhou Guohua, Wang Hao, Wen Xiaoyan and Hu Yang.
Britain was second and the USA third.
Leighton Smithwick through AP
Iran wins sitting volleyball
Iran defeated Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-1 within the sitting volleyball remaining for a second successive gold medal.
Iran has gained eight Paralympic golds in sitting volleyball since its first on the 1988 Seoul Video games.
Within the remaining, Iran’s Morteza Mehrzadselakjani was the highest scorer with 27 factors. Mehrzadselakjani is the world’s second-tallest man at 8-foot-1 (2.46 meters). Even when he’s sitting, he’s greater than 6 toes (1.8 meters) together with his arms raised.
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