Paralympics 2021 LIVE updates Madison de Rozario wins gold in 800m as Holt claims fourth career silver
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The White Tiger couldn’t get a great start in his 100m final (T13) and finishes in fifth. His time of 10.84 is almost a PB.
Irish star Jason Smyth wins it in 10.53 seconds.
Silver. Silver. Silver. Silver. That’s how 20-year-old sprinter Isis Holt’s Paralympic medal tally looks after four second places across Rio and Tokyo.
She was in front in her T35 200m event but Zhou Xia from China, who beat her in the 100m, comes storming home to claim gold.
It’s a world record (27.17) by a staggering 1.05 seconds. Holt’s time is a personal best of 27.94 is a personal best.
Isis Holt picked up a silver medal on Friday in the women’s T35 100m final. Credit:Getty
Before yesterday, Australia hadn’t won a game in women’s goalball since 1996. They may just do it twice in two days.
Aussie duo Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson are up 5-0 in the first set against a Japanese pair in the semi-finals of their quad doubles tournament.
If they win, they’ll play tomorrow in a final, before the singles program kicks off a little later next week.
Dylan Alcott. Credit:Getty
Finally, after 2.5 days without a gold, Australia can celebrate with Madison de Rozario claiming first place in the T53 800m final.
She edges Zhou Hongzuaun and Catherine DeBrunner to win her first gold. A great story. We’ll have all the reaction shortly.
Madison de Rozario claimed gold in her 800m event. Credit:Sitthixay Ditthavong
Australia’s wheelchair rugby team has missed out on a Paralympic medal for the first time since 2004 following a 60-52 loss in their bronze medal match to Japan.
The Steelers’ brilliant reign as the undisputed best team in the world ended abruptly on Sunday following the team’s fourth loss from five starts in Tokyo.
“It’s still very raw,†said coach Brad Dubberley, who has been in charge of the team for 15 years. “We’ve had such success for such a long period of time. We know we’re such a better team than the result out there today. We have dealt with chaos and barrier after barrier for so long. Super proud.
“If you said to me a few months ago we’d finish fourth and win one game, I wouldn’t have believed you.â€
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Australia’s Ryley Batt falls during the wheelchair rugby bronze medal match against Japan. Credit:AP
Samuel Von Einem goes down 11-6, 7-11, 11-7, 6-11, 9-11.
It’s a silver medal though, which is nothing to sneeze at. A great effort against Hungary’s Peter Halos, who was tooo good tonight.
Australia has another two gold medals hopes on Monday night, with Li Na Lei and Qiang Yang doing battle in their categories.
Von Einem loses the fourth game 11-6. Two-all. All down to the fifth game.
G’day all, I’ll be seeing the blog through for the rest of the evening.
Aussie table tennis player Samuel Von Einem is up two games to one (best of five) in his class 11 singles gold medal match (11-6, 7-11, 11-7).
One more game and he’ll win the gold. Would be Australia’s eighth of these Paralympics.
According to his biography on the Paralympics Australia website:
Samuel Von Einem was an avid tennis player before relocating to Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2003. Due to the heat, his parents kept a table tennis table inside their house and he began playing table tennis instead.
He first represented Australia in 2011 at the ITTF Junior Circuit in Dededo, Guam, and in 2015 he became eligible for Paralympic Games qualification.
Making his Paralympic debut in Rio the following year, Samuel won Australia’s first medal in table tennis in Paralympic or Olympic competition since Terry Biggs’ gold in 1984.
William Martin has come oh so close to the podium in the men’s 50m freestyle S9 final. He’s just missed out by 0.15 seconds - that was the margin between him and American Jamal Hill, who took the bronze.
Simone Barlaam of Italy won it in 24.71 seconds, just ahead of Denis Tarasov of the Russian Paralympic Committee.
The other Aussie, Timothy Disken, came seventh but it was a pretty tight field across the board, with only 1.25 seconds separating first and last.
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