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In the remaining two medal events from the morning session at the Stade de France … José Gregorio Lemos of Colombia is now a double Paralympic champion … and another world-record setter! His throw of 63.81m in the F38 (coordination impairments) javelin had room to spare in taking the gold, and massively improved his own previous best mark of 61.76m, set last November. Vladyslav Bilyi (52.86m) of Ukraine and China’s An Dongquan (51.97m) couldn’t live with that form but will have fuzzy glows this day with silver and bronze medals respectively.
The brilliant Zhou Xia of China showed her class, steaming to gold in the T35 (coordination impairments) 100m final – her 13.58sec run consigned compatriot Guo Qianqian to second place, while Preethi Pal of India took the bronze. Still only 25, that makes five Paralympic golds for Zhou, who won 100m and 200m golds in Rio and Tokyo.
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