The Paris Paralympics wrapped up with one other trio of bronze medals by Japanese athletes. In Friday’s T52 males’s 100 m closing, Tomoki Sato held off Canada’s Anthony Bouchard and Mexico’s Salvador Hernandez Mondragon by 0.11 for bronze in 17.44 (+1.6). Tomoya Ito and Tatsuya Ito had been seventh and eighth in 17.67 and 17.91, with Belgian Maxime Carabin successful gold in 16.70.
In Sunday’s marathons, Tomoki Suzuki misplaced out to China’s Hua Jin within the race for T54 males’s silver, Jin getting there first in 1:31:19 and Suzuki 4 seconds again in 1:31:23 for bronze. However each had been far behind gold medalist Marcel Hug of Switzerland, who had a dominant run in 1:27:39 for the win. Ryota Yoshida clocked 1:37:15 for eighth. Wakako Tsuchida and Tsubasa Kina had been off their greatest within the T54 ladies’s race, Tsuchida sixth in 1:52:39 and Kina twelfth in 2:04:53.
Within the T12 ladies’s marathon, Paralympic and world file holder Misato Michishita misplaced each data to Moroccans Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi and Meryem En-Nourhi. Each broke Michishita’s 3:00:50 Paralympic file, with El Idrissi scoring a formidable gold in 2:48:36 to chop nearly 6 minutes off Michishita’s WR. Initially ending 4th in 3:04:23, Michishita was elevated to bronze after Spain’s Elena Congost was disqualified. Congost completed third in 3:00:48, 2 seconds below Michishita’s Paralympic file, however simply steps earlier than the end line violated the principles by letting go of her information runner’s rope. Tadashi Horikoshi was the highest Japanese man within the T12 race at seventh in 2:28:03, with Shinya Wada ninth in a PB 2:29:59 and Yutaka Kumagai tenth in 2:32:26.
