day 8

DAY 8

 

ATHLETICS

 

Yesterday Sally Brown from Ballykelly finished 6^th in the T46 100 metres final  but to reach the final makes her a quality athlete. Cuba’s Yunidis Castillo won gold in a time of 12.01  

 

Oscar Pistorius won the gold medal in the t42-46 4X100 meters as he was on  South African team which won the race in 41.87 China got Silver and Germany got bronze. All last night

 

Today Beverly Jones got a bronze medal in the Woman’s discus throw F37 behind Na Mi who got the gold and Qiuping who got silver both from china

 

In the men’s shot put F40 Zhmmig Wang got the gold medal in a world record distance of 14.46 metres Hocne Ghrzuli from Algeria got the silver and Pachalis Statelakos from Greece got the bronze medal

 

In the mens F11 triple jump Denis Gulin from Russia got the gold medal with a jump of 12.91 metres silver went to Duan Li of china who jumped 12.75 metres and bronze to Ruslan Katyshev fro the Ukraine

 

Ben Rushgrove got a bronze medal in the mens 200 metres t36 after an amazing race between him Roman Pavlicof Ukrane who got the gold and So Wa Wo of China any one of them could have won it but in the last 10 metres Pavlic got ahead

Hannah Cockroft from Greath Britain got gold in the womans 200 metres T34.

David Weir of Great Britain tonight has won mens 800 metres t54  the afiter a bad crash earlier in the race and good tactics from Weir go in behind and take on the silver medalit Marcel Hug of china to get his third medal at this paralympics

 

 Jonnie Peacock of Great Britain wins gold in the mens 100 metres T44. Silver wen to Richard Browne of the USA and bronze to Arnu Forie of South Africa  

WOMENS WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL

 

Great Britain will be playing Mexico in the Women’s 7^th place play off on Saturday as they lost by 72-55 to China today. The game was lost in the first half with 2 17-10 quarters followed by a 15-11 all won by china in the fourth Britain did win 24-23 but by this stage it was all over  

 

Australia defeated the USA in a very close contest. In the first 2 quarters anybody could have won with the USA winning the first 12-10 and Australia winning the second 15-14 which meant that it was level at half time. Then Australia got into a grove and only allowed the US one scoring shot in the third period winning 12-2 you thought it was all over but the USA did come back and left the role reversal where Australia could only have one scoring shot but the US could only score 11 loosing the match by 1 point 39-40 Australia will be contesting the gold medal match while the USA will be competing for bronze.

 

Germany and the Netherlands also had a close contest Germany got ahead in the first quarter winning by 12 points to 8 but it was not too much for the Netherlands to think about as they won the second quite easily by 21 points to 12 and that must have kicked the Germans into gear as in the second half Germany took 2 close quarters by 12 points to 8 and by 13 points to 9 to win the match but the Dutch had their chances especially in the third quarter

 

In my opinion the problem in both of these matches is having one bad quarter and being able to fix the problem that they have. I feel that the experience will be going through the Australians heads more as they did not have a chance to respond so I think Australia to win but it will be close and I also think that both teams will have 1 bad quarter how will they respond

 

WHEELCHAIR TENNIS

 

Its down to the semi finals now and defending champion and Japanese man  Singo Kuneda defeated Dutchman Ronald Vink 6-2, 6-2 to ensure himself a spot in the Paralympics final Vink is very unlucky as in Beijing he lost 3 bronze play off matches. I think he will defend his gold medal.

 

In the other Men’s singles semi Stephane Houdet of France beat Dutchman Makel Sheffers 6-3 6-2 to reach the final

 

 

WHEELCHAIR RUGBY

 

In the first and second quarter between Sweden and Australia, Australia had control but the came was very close as they won 16-10, 16-11 the third and fourth quarters was very close but Australia still managed to win them 12-11, 16-15. I do not think that this game will help Australia in any way just possibly to look at their squad. Final score Sweden 47 Australia 60   

 

SAILING

 

Britains Helena Lucas took gold in the 2.4mR class and Anexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell got bronze in the Skud to secure their first ever medals in sailing

 

CYCLING

 

Sarah Storey equalled the Brittish record held by Daye Roberts and Baroness Tammie Grey Thomson as she got gold in the C4-5 road race seven minutes ahead of silver medallist Anna Harkowska.

 

SWIMMING

 

Mens 200 metres SM19 Britain’s James Crisp was very unlucky not to get a medal as Mathew Cowdrey won the gold medal Andriv Kalyna managed to get the sliver and Fredrico Morlacchi from Italy got the bronze

 

Natalie Du Toi from South Africa won the Woman’s 400 metre freestyle S7also from Stephanie Millard Great Britain got the silver Louise Watkin and from Great Britain got the bronze. Also Ellen Keane from Ireland had a chance of a medal and it slipped away   

 

In the womans 400 metres freestyle S7 Susannah Rodgers from Great Britain was unfortunate not to get a silver medal as she got the bronze in a very close one on one race with Cortney Jordan from the USA who got silver. Jaqueline Freny from Austrillia was so far ahead of the pack it was unbelievable and she broke her own world record by 0.9 of a second.

Brit Heather Fredrickson managed to pick up a silver medal in the womans 100 mnetre freestyle S8 loosing to Jessica Longfrom the USA who got gold and beating Madison Elliot from Austrillia who got bronze

 

My athlete of the day has to be Sarah Story as she levelled the British record for medals