Three World Records on second morning of IPC
Three World Records on second morning of IPC Athletics World Championships
The field athletes deservedly took the
plaudits on the second morning session
of the 2011 IPC
Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, New
Zealand
claiming two World records.
First up was
Mexico's Angeles Ortiz Hernandes who set a new world
record
(11.21m/1002points) to claim gold in the Women's
Shot Put F57/58 Final.
Bulgaria's Stela Eneva
(10.54m/960points) took silver with Algeria's
Nadia
Medjmedj (9.48m/901points) bronze.
Next to
rewrite the record books was Pawel Piotrowski of Poland in
the Men's
Shot Put F35/36). His World record gold medal
throw of 13.77m (1007 points)
put him ahead of Russia's
Vladmir Sviridov (13.65m/1004 points) - a season's
best -
and China's Wei Guo (14.18m/988 points).
On the
track Egypt's Mostafa Fathalla Mohammed broke the Men's 100m
T37 World
record in the heats setting a time of 11.64
seconds. The final is on Monday.
Brazil's Odair
Santos kicked off proceedings on day two of the 2011
IPC
Athletics World Championships with an emphatic win in
the Men's 10,000m T11
Final in a Championship record of
32:13.02.
Silver went to Chile's Christian
Valenzuela who was more than a minute behind
the winner
in 33:21.51, whilst Mexico's Luis Zapien Rosas took bronze
in a
season's best time of 33:41.70.
China
dominated this morning's 100m races winning three out of
four gold
medals available.
In the Women's T53
Final World record holder Lisha Huang took gold
(17.13)
ahead of USA's Anjali Forber Pratt (17.40) and
China's Hongzhuan Zhou
(17.60).
There was a shock
in the Men's T53 Final with Huzhao Li upstaging
British's
World record holder Michael Bushell to win
gold. Li's time of 14.82 was a
Championship record and
was 0.04 ahead of the Brit. Canada's Brent Lakatos
took
bronze (15.07).
China took gold and silver in the
Women's T54 100m through Hongjiao Dong
(16.73) and Wenjun
Liu (16.78). Bronze went to USA's Tatyana McFadden
The only non-Chinese winner in the 100m was Finland's
Leo Pekka Tahti who was
victorious in a Championship
record time of 14.14 in the Men's T54.
Silver went
to Thailand's Saichon Konjen (14.41) whilst the
Netherlands'
Kenny Vam Weeghel took bronze (14.47).
In the Men's 1,500m T13 Final Morocco's Tarik Zal took
gold in 3:58.66 whilst
his teammate Youssef Benbrahim
claimed bronze (4:00.88). Silver went to
Poland's Lukasz
Wietecki (3:59.52)and Youssef Benbrahim (4:00.88)
Suffering a calf injury New Zealand's Tim Prendergast,
the World record
holder at this distance, was determined
to finish the race and hobbled to the
finish line in
seventh. He now faces a race to be fit for Friday's 800m
The Men's 200m T34 saw Mohammed Hammadi take gold
(30.14), France's Sebastien
Mobre silver (30.39) and
USA's Austin Pruitt (31.14).
In the heats for the
Men's 100m T38 Australia's World record holder
Evan
O'Hanlon set a new Championship record coasting to a
time of 11.21.
The USA's Jerome Singleton set a
Season's Best of 23.28 in his heat for the
Men's 200m
T44, however it was South Africa's Oscar Pistorius who was
the
fastest qualifier in 22.52. Both athletes believe the
200m World record
could be in jeopardy in tomorrow's
final.
In the field a throw of 3.76m from Mexico's
Estela Salas (747 points) was
good enough to secure gold
in the women's F52/53 shot put final. India's
Deepa Malik
won her country's first medal of the Championships when
she
claimed silver with a throw of 3.59m (687points),
while Martha Gustafson from
Canada won bronze 3.45m (540
points) - a Championship record for a F52
athlete.
In the women's F37 discus throw, current Paralympic
Games champion, China's
Na Mi, set a new Championship
record (31.46m) to secure gold from Great
Britain's
Beverly Jones (30.62m) and Qiuping Xu (28.74) from
China.
Juntingxian Jia's leap of 4.47m in the
women's long jump in the F11 final
delivered another gold
medal to China, while Paraskevi Kantza from
Greece
(3.91m) and Finland's Elisa Montonen (3.33m) were
second and third
respectively.
Bulgaria's Dechko
Ovcharov claimed gold in the Men's Javelin F42 with a
throw
measuring 44.44m. Norway's Runar Steinstad was
second (44.39m) and South
Africa's Casper Schutte
(39.56m).
In total three World and six Championship
records were broken in the morning
session bringing the
respective total for the event to 10 World and
25
Championship
records.