Swimmer Tom Gallagher has delivered the primary gold medal of his profession and Australia’s first of the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Gallagher powered residence by way of the ultimate throes of the lads’s S10 50m freestyle ultimate at a packed-out La Protection Area to grab first place.
The 25-year-old’s surge down the house stretch ensured he held off a chasing pack that included Australian teammate Rowan Crothers, who completed with bronze.
Gallagher and Crothers’s medals helped put a shine on a day that started with a bang.
Earlier, Brenden Corridor and Lakeisha Patterson claimed Australia’s first two Paralympic medals within the area of 10 minutes.
Brenden Corridor and Lakeisha Patterson started Australia’s medal haul with bronze and silver within the first two swimming finals of the Video games. (Reuters: Andrew Couldridge)
Corridor clinched his seventh Paralympic medal with bronze within the males’s S9 400m freestyle on Friday morning, AEST, at a packed-out La Protection Area in Paris.
Patterson had led her S9 400m freestyle race proper up till the ultimate lap the place she was pipped to gold by Hungary’s Zsofia Konkoly and needed to accept silver.
“I might see her closing in that final 200 and I like a chase and thought I might be capable to get there tonight,” Patterson mentioned.
“I actually cannot complain, it is my third Paralympics now and I’ve podiumed in any respect three Video games and that is a particular feeling.”
Corridor, in the meantime, made a late sprint to say bronze after lacking out on medals at Tokyo.
The 31-year-old’s race was made all of the extra dramatic by French native Ugo Didier surging previous Italy’s Simone Barlaam on the ultimate stretch to say gold.
“I used to be after a bit little bit of redemption, and I simply wished to come back again with a medal this time,” Corridor mentioned.
“I did not care what color it was and so to have the ability to do it in entrance of people that imply probably the most to me, that is what made me really feel it probably the most.”
Alexa Leary, who earlier on Thursday set a world document that was bettered in simply 10 minutes, completed sixth within the ladies’s S10 50m freestyle.
Ben Hance needed to accept fourth within the males’s S14 100m butterfly, whereas Paige Leonhardt positioned seventh within the ladies’s S14 100m butterfly.
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