DAY 9

 

WHEELCHAIR RUGBY

 

Australia had a comfortable win over Belgium to ensure top spot in pool B They won by 58 points to 43. Australia had control of the match from the second period as in the first they could go no further than 2 goals clear. They then were able to make a lot of fast breakaways and keep Belgium in check

 

Canada won a very tight match with one bad error loosing the game for Sweden. They meant to hit a long pass and it went wrong and Canada got possession back to do a quick breakaway goal. Canada won by 52 goals to 51. One team was never more than 3 goals ahead so you could not say who would win this game. There were loads of contact and breakaway goals this was a great game  

 

Great Britain has had some serious problems against Japan as they lost by 39 points to 51 the amount of turnover ball and breakaways are unbelievable as Japan seemed unstoppable. The game was lost in the second quarter as they lost that by 4 goals to 13 after such a great start winning the first by 14 goal to 13 the other 2 were tight as in the third they lost 15 to11 and fourth was a tie 10 each.  If Britain have any hope they need to change a lot.

 

 

7 A SIDE FOOTBALL

 

Russia beat Brazil by 3 goals to 1 and in the first fifteen minutes they were deserving of their wonder goal. Brazil did come back at them and get a goal back it was like the goal got Brazil into a gear. Half time then came and Russia took control scoring 2 quick goals but then Brazil did come back at them. In earlier games Holland scored 5 to 0 against the USA and Great Britain were unlucky to loose 4-3 to Argentina

 

ATHLETICS

 

 

Another medal for the Irish as Catherine O’Neill takes the silver medal in the woman’s discus throw F51-53 Also Brit Josie Pearson gets a world record with a throw of 6 metres 56 centimetres Zena Cole of the US gets the bronze medal

 

In the men’s Javelin throw F40 Zimming Wang of China got a world record with a throw of 47.95 metres in silver was Ahmed Naas of Iraq and in bronze also from Iraq was Wldan Nukhaliawi

 

Also in javelin in the F42 class Yalong Fu from China got the gold with a world record throw of 52.79 metres silver going to Kamran Shokrisalari of Iran and the bronze going to Runar Steinstad of Norway

 

In the women’s long jump F11/12 Oksana Zubkovska from Ukraine got a world record and the gold medal. The silver went to Jutngxan Jia from China and the bronze to Anna Kaniuk of Bulgaria

 

WHEELCHAIR TENNIS

 

Another gold medal for the greatest women’s singles wheelchair tennis player ever Esther Vergeer at least statistically not having lost a match in 237 matches playing wheelchair tennis. Esther won 6-0 6-4 and keeps this unbeatable run going by beating fellow Dutchwoman Anna Van Koot. Jiske Grifidoen also from the Netherlands took the bronze

 

Great Britain’s Shuker and Whiley were very lucky to get a bronze medal in the womes doubles after beating Khanthasit and Techamaneewar from Thailand 6-7, 7-6, 6-3. The first tie break was a very close one and could have gone either way but the second set the GB pair raced out to a 6-0 lead before loosing 2 points and then getting the point nessessary in the third the thais collapsed as the Britain’s took it 6-3

 

SWIMMING

 

In the men’s 100 metres S9 Matthew Cowdrey  from Australia got the gold, Tamas Toth from Hungary got the silver and Tamas Sors also from Hungary got the bronze

 

In the women’s 100 metres freestyle and in South AfricanNatalie Du Toits final race she could only get silver as she was beaten by Ellie Cole of Australia Sarai Gasgon of Spain got the bronze

 

ROAD CYCLING

Mark Rohan has won a gold medal in the Mens indivudial H1 road race. Rohan clocked up a time of 1.53.09 two seconds ahead of Swiss cyclist Tobias Fankhauser. Austrillias Wolfgang Schattauer took bronze as he finished 13 seconds later

 

My athlete of today is Mark Rohan