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Yassine Ouhdadi and Adiaratou Iglesias win gold and silver at the World Paralympic Athletics Championships

MADRID, 10 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Spanish athletes Yassine Ouhdadi, in the 5,000 meter test of the T13 category, and Adiaratou Iglesias, in the 100 meter T13, have won a gold and a silver medal, respectively, on Monday, on the second day of the Paralympic World Championships. , with which their presence at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games was guaranteed.

Ouhdadi was proclaimed champion thanks to a thrilling final sprint in which he overcame Australian Jaryd Clifford. The race took place at a slow pace in which the group remained united, until with 200 meters to go the oceanician made a change of pace to which the Catalan responded with ease to overtake him with only 100 meters ahead.

In this way, Ouhdadi obtains the automatic classification for the Paralympic Games in Paris. In the same category competed Alberto Suárez, who was in sixth position.

For his part, Adiaratou Iglesias took the silver medal in a very tight race in which the judges had to decide by the thousandths that the clock marked, awarding gold to the Azerbaijani Lamiya Valiyeva. Even so, the Galician guaranteed the Olympic ticket.

In addition, both Eduardo Uceda-Jorge Gutiérrez and Gerard Descárrega-Guillermo Rojo managed to qualify in their respective rounds of the 400-meter T11 (visually impaired) for the semifinals, and Sara Andrés achieved the sixth best mark in the long jump T64 (category for athletes with physical disabilities) but could not enter the fight for the medals.

For his part, Kim López, Paralympic champion in Tokyo 2020, achieved a creditable fourth position in F12 shot put (visual impairment), since he had physical discomfort prior to the championship, he was unable to fight for the medals after making only one valid first throw .

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