DAY 10
I watched the wheelchair
fencing today and was surprised how tricky and dangerous the sport could be. I
was also confused on how there were three events and all three of them had
completely different rules and to win a medal you have to be able to do well in
all of them
ATHLETICS
Yesterday Great Britain’s
Josie Pierson won discus gold for team GB in the F51-53
Irelands Jason Smyth
followed in the footsteps of Usain Bolt by winning the double, double. He was
the only man in the race who went under 22 seconds Russians Artem Labzin and
Artem Loginov
In the 800 metres the 18
year old Abbellatif Bakka of Aljeria wins the gold but for the first lap they
were all in a group then the medallists came clear and took the race on
themselves after the bell David Korir of KenyaAdbelilah Mame of Mauritius gets
the bronze
In the women’s Javelin
throw Shirlene Coelho threw a world record of 37.86 metres to get gold Qanqan
Jia of China got the silver with a throw of 31.62 metres and the bronze went to
Georgia Beikoff of Australia
In the men’s 200 metres
t38 Evan O’Hanlan of Australia got the gold an and won the double double . The silver went to Dyan Buis of
South Africa and the bronze to Wenjun Zhou of China
In the woman’s 400 metres
t37 Neda Bahi from Tunisia won the gold Vikoriya Kravchenko from Ukraine got
the silver and Evgeniya Trushinikova of Russia got the bronze
In the men’s javelin
f54-56 Luis Alberto Zepeda Felix from Mexico got the gold AlexKuznetsov of
Russia got the silver and Manolis Stefanoudakis of Greese got the bronze
In the woman's shot f57/58
Angeles Ortiz Hernandez of Mexico broke the world record as she threw 11.43
metres silver went to Stela Eneva of bulgeria and bronze to Eucharia Iyazi of
Nigeria
ROAD CYCLING
In the mixed 1-2 stone
race David Stone of Great Britain got the gold medal Giorgio Farroni of Italy
got the silver and David Vondracek
WHEELCHAIR RUGBY
In the first of today’s
wheelchair rugby matches Great Britain beat Belgium by 54-49 but it did not go
all their own way as in the first period Belgium led by 15-13 but after that
Britain were stealing ball time at half time it was very close after time and
by the end of the third period Britain were leading. Britain did get a few more
steels to win and get a chance to be fifth.
Australia secured there
place in the wheelchair rugby final by beating Japan in the semi final. Australia
had control of this match winning every quarter but if you took each individual
quarter you may see a lot closer match. In the first they won by 14 points to
11. In the second it was 15 to 12 the third was a lot bigger gap and where they
spoiled any chance of a comeback by winning 15 -10. In the fourth Japan showed
who they were by loosing 14-12 but even though the writing was on the wall the
Japanese never gave up final score Australia 58 Japan 45 Australia will be
playing for a gold medal while Japan will be playing for bronze
The USA against Canada
was a very close match but if you looked at the first quarter you would not
believe me as it was all Canada leading 16-9 at quarter time. The USA did get
back into the match before half time winning the second quarter 14-12. The USA
got another quality quarter winning 14-11 to make the game a lot closer and
when it came to the end you did not know who was going to win as the quarter
was even at 11- 11 USA then the USA have a bad handling error to loose 50-49 and
if you think about how the USA got back into the game from humiliation you
would consider this unfair
WHEELCHAIR TENNIS
Ronald Vink from the
Netherlands beat Malkel Scheffers by 2 sets to 1 after loosing the first 6-4 he
came back to win a very tight set that could have went either way and it was
one good point against serve that won it for Vink in the third it took one
break of serve and Vink has his bronze medal
Noam Gershony of Israel
beat David Wagner of the USA in straight sets. In the first set it took one
break of serve to beat the American 6-3 but in the second he appeared to be unstoppable
as he won 6-1 now he takes over from Great Britain Peter Norfock as quad
singles gold medallist.
British pair Shuker and
Whiley got the bronze medal in a 3 setter earlier today winning 7-6, 6-7, 3-6 over
Khanthasit and Techamaneewat and there was only one major drop in serve. In the
final 2 Dutch pairings went out on court and it was who beat. Buis and Vurgeer
beet Griffioen and Van Koot 6-1 6-3
5 A SIDE FOOTBALL
After a even match
between Spain and Argentina for the bronze medal the game went sown to
penalties after a scoreless match Aninio scores Rodriguez misses for Argentina Marcello
hits it completely off target for Spain Alvaro makes a good save for Spain
Heira penalty misses by inches Alvaro saves and Spain have the bronze medal as
they are the only team to score in the penalty shoot out
France were very unlucky
today loosing to Brazil as the first penalty goal Brazil scored was a little
bit unfair and the second good control to the wing good little cross but an
unlucky touch by the French defender. That is not why they are unlucky why they
are unlucky is the fact that they missed 3 penalties. One was taken indirectly
but by this I thought that they thought the game was up. The game itself was
very even with both teams having good chances but this is now Brazil's third
blind football title in a row and are one of the great blind football teams.
Great Britain managed to finish
in 7th position after loosing to China and beating Turkey both
results were 2-0 and after that Great Britain striker Dave Clarke decided to
retire
BOTCHA
Great Britain David Smith
picked up a silver medal but in the final he was outclassed as he lost 7-0 today also from Great Britain Steven Mc Guire
finished fourth as he lost to Dos Santo
of Brazil and was disappointed by that result
SWIMMING
Britain’s Harriet Lee
picked up a bronze medal today in the Woman’s 100 metre Backstroke SB9 behind
Sophie Pascoe of New Zeeland and Khrystyna Yurchenko of Ukraine
Darragh Mc Donald was
unlucky today as he finished fourth in the men’s freestyle S6.Chinas Qing Xu
got a Paralympics record as he strolled to victory Sebastian Iwanow from
Germany got second and Lorenzo Perez Escalona from Cuba finished in third
Ellie Symons was very
unlucky not to get the gold as she lost out to a new world record now held by Victoria
Arlen of the USA Tanja Groepper from Germany managed to get the bronze
My athlete of the day
today is David Stone
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