PARIS — Para swimmer Ernie Gawilan is taking no possibilities in his farewell occasion on the 17th Paralympic Video games.
Mr. Gawilan missed the medal race of the boys’s 200-meter particular person medley SM7 and he intends to atone for that misplaced alternative by giving his all within the 400m freestyle S7 race on Monday on the Paris La Protection Enviornment right here.
He’s Asia’s finest within the mentioned occasion, capturing the gold medal twice within the 2018 Asian Para Video games in Jakarta, Indonesia and the 2022 version in Hangzhou, China.
Mr. Gawilan lacked each legs since beginning together with an underdeveloped left arm.
He reached the wall sixth in his warmth throughout the 200m IM preliminaries, lacking the prospect for a medal.
Mr. Gawilan, a four-time Asian Para Video games gold medalist, has been bunched with Argentina’s Inaki Basiloff, Ukraine’s Andrii Trusov, Cuba’s Yosjaniel Hernandez Velez and Yurii Shenhur, one other Ukranian, within the 400m freestyle.
Mr. Basiloff nosed out Mr. Trusov for the gold medal of their 200m IM encounter over the weekend.
Para swimming coach Tony Ong mentioned he anticipated Mr. Gawilan to qualify to the 200m IM ultimate however confronted issues throughout the breaststroke sequence of the occasion and didn’t drive his manner.
“Anyway, we tried to make use of this occasion as a part of the tuneup for his favourite occasion, the 400m free on Monday,’’ mentioned Mr. Ong.
Ought to Mr. Gawilan get by means of the heats, the medal race for the 400m free is about early Tuesday morning.
Because the Video games strategy the midway mark, the Philippines have 4 extra athletes able to delivering a medal within the nation’s marketing campaign facilitated by the Philippine Paralympic Committee and totally backed by the Philippine Sports activities Fee (PSC).
Para swimmer Angel Mae Otom will open her bid within the girls’s 50m backstroke S5 on Tuesday and wheelchair racer Jerrold Mangliwan steps into the Stade de France anew for the qualifying heats of the boys’s 100m T52 race on Thursday.
Ms. Otom, a triple-gold medalist within the 2023 Asean Para Video games, will get one other crack at a medal within the girls’s 50m butterfly S5 on Friday, after which Cendy Asusano closes out the Philippine marketing campaign within the girls’s javelin throw F54 on Saturday. — PSC
