Paralympics: Chinese get 92 Paralympic medals in four days read more at here www.spinonews.com/index.php/item/820-paralympics-chinese-get-92-paralympic-medals-in-four-days

China strengthened their on the 2016 Paralympics medal table on Sunday 11 September with a string of successes across multiple sports.

China’s medal haul includes a staggering 39 golds, plus 30 silvers and 23 bronzes. Great Britain remain second in the table with 56 medals, including 23 golds.

Gold-medal wins in athletics, swimming, shooting and archery saw the Chinese team up their medal count to 92 after just four days of competition at Rio.

But one of the stories of the day came in the table tennis competition where 16-year-old Belgian Laurens Devos took gold in the men’s singles class 9 final.

The teenager beat Gerban Last of the Netherlands to clinch the title with a 3-0, 11-8, 11-7, 11-4 victory at Rio entro Pavilion 2.

China have now won a total of 23 track and field medals, including the latest gold picked up by Hongzhuan Zhou when she set a new world record time in the women’s 400m T53.

Her success was one of the stand-out stories of the day at the Olympic Stadium where, earlier in the day, Brazil’s teenage sensation Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos had got the home crowd roaring as he smashed the world record to take gold in the men’s 100m T47.

The 19-year-old, who only took up Para athletics two years ago, saw off a talented field including two-time world champion Michal Derus as well as his Brazilian teammate Yohansson Nascimento.

There was also a world record for Ukraine’s Leilia Adzhametova, who smashed the time she set in the 100m T13 semi-finals to clinch her first Paralympic title.

Ireland’s multiple world and Paralympic champion Michael McKillop added yet another gold medal to his collection as he took the win in the men’s 1,500m T37.

In the wheelchair basketball there were wins in the women’s competition for Germany, USA, France and Great Britain, and in the men’s competition for Spain, Turkey, Great Britain, Brazil, USA and Japan.

And in the sitting volleyball competition, Egypt beat Brazil and Japan beat USA in the men’s competition. In the women’s competition, Brazil beat Ukraine and the Netherlands beat Canada.

Meanwhile, the US’s Tatyana McFadden dedicated her first gold medal of the Games for her victory in the women’s 400m T54 to her country, on the 15th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on New York.

The 27-year-old, who won silver in the 100m T54 on Friday 9 September, still has five events to go as she takes on all distances from 100m through to the marathon, including the 4x400m T54 relay.

Completing a great few days on the track for Great Britain, Lora Turnham and her pilot Corrine Hall took gold in the women’s B300m individual pursuit final, and Britain also triumphed in the Mixed C1-5 750m team sprint final. It took their total gold haul in the velodrome to eight.

 

 

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