Day 11: Aussies in motion
It is the ultimate day of competitors in Paris and Australia is a large likelihood of that includes among the many medals (all occasions AEST):
Para athletics
- 4:15pm: Girls’s marathon T54 — Madison de Rozario🏅
Para canoe
- 6:14pm: Girls’s kayak single 200m KL2 semifinals — Susan Seipel
- 8:41pm: Males’s va’a single 200m VL3 last — Curtis McGrath🏅
Para powerlifting
- 10pm: Girls’s over 86kg last — Hani Watson🏅
Par athletics: Males’s marathon T54 underway
The boys’s marathon T54 has made a begin on the streets of Paris.
There aren’t any Australians competing within the occasion, however we’ll maintain you up to date because the race progresses.
A reminder, Madison de Rozario is up within the ladies’s marathon T54 at 4:15pm (AEST).
Para athletics: De Rozario trying to defend marathon title
The entire of Australia will likely be behind Madison de Rozario as she makes an attempt to win back-to-back gold within the ladies’s marathon T54.
De Rozario, a T53 athlete, gained the marathon on the Tokyo Paralympics and already has a medal in her assortment on the Paris Video games.
The Australian co-flagbearer on the opening ceremony was third within the ladies’s 5,000m T54, whereas she additionally completed fifth within the 1,500m T54 occasion.
Except for her Tokyo victory, which she achieved in a Paralympic document time, de Rozario has compiled a stable CV within the marathon.
She has gained two Commonwealth Video games titles on the Gold Coast (T54, 2018) and Birmingham (T53/54, 2022) editions.
De Rozario — who’s coached by Australian Paralympic nice Louise Sauvage — has twice gained the distinguished London Marathon, in 2018 and 2023.
She additionally triumphed within the 2021 New York Marathon.
De Rozario faces a stiff problem in profitable consecutive Paralympic marathon golds, with a aggressive discipline set to take its place at begin line in Paris.
T53/54 world-record holder Catherine Debrunner (T53) is competing, as is her Swiss compatriot Manuela Schär (T54), who claimed silver behind de Rozario in Tokyo.
Debrunner is bidding for her fifth Paris gold, having already gained the 400m (T53), 800m (T53), 1,500m (T54) and 5,000m (T54).
The marathon program will start with the lads’s T54 occasion at 4pm (AEST), adopted by the ladies’s T54 (4:15pm), and the ladies’s and males’s T12 (each at 4:30pm) occasions.
How does the medal tally look heading into the ultimate day?
As we have talked about, Australia nonetheless has extra medal probabilities to come back on day 11.
This is how the medal tally stood after day 10 of competitors:
Welcome to the ultimate day in Paris!
Hey there!
Thanks for becoming a member of ABC Sport’s digital protection of the ultimate day of competitors on the Paris Paralympic Video games.
It has been a Paralympics to recollect for Australia however we’re not executed with simply but, as we nonetheless have medal occasions arising on day 11.
As a reminder, we’ll be dwell running a blog the closing ceremony tomorrow morning (AEST), so we hope you’ll be able to be a part of us for what guarantees to be a shocking finale to the Paris Video games.
We’re not distant from Madison de Rozario taking to the streets of Paris for the ladies’s marathon T54 and we’d love so that you can keep on with us all through the night!