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Nicholas Bennett gained Canada’s first gold medal of the Paralympic Video games on Monday.
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The 20-year-old swimmer from Parksville, B.C., was first within the males’s 100-metre breaststroke and picked up his second medal in Paris.
He was a silver medallist within the 200-metre freestyle.
The Canadian was the one swimmer to go below one minute 4 seconds within the race with a time of 1:03.98.
Jake Michel of Australia took silver in 1:04.27. Naohide Yamaguchi of Japan was the bronze medallist in 1:04.94
Yamaguchi, the world-record holder, had crushed Bennett for a world title final 12 months in Manchester, England.
Bennett, who was identified on the age of three with autism spectrum dysfunction, is coached by his sister Haley Bennett.
He’s the primary Canadian man to win a Paralympic gold medal in swimming since Benoit Huot in 2012.
Bennett races within the S14 classification for athletes with an mental impairment.
Canadians have gained 5 medals within the pool in Paris. Swimming continues till Saturday.
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