Canada’s Bianca Borgella sprints to second medal at Para Athletics World Championships

Day Three and 4 was one to recollect for Group Canada and Rockland, Ont. sprinter Bianca Borgella, as she gained her second medal on the Para Athletics World Championships in Paris. Borgella gained silver within the T13 200m closing, setting a brand new private greatest and Canadian file. Her silver was one in every of three medals gained by Group Canada monitor athletes on Tuesday and Wednesday within the French capital. 

BIANCA BORGELLA ADDS A 🥈 TO HER COLLECTION

Within the W T13 200m Remaining, Borgella ran a 25.00s setting a brand new PB and new 🇨🇦 file!

Lors de la finale du 200 m W T13, Borgella a couru en 25,0s, établissant un nouveau PB et un nouveau 🇨🇦 file !

📸 by Yonathan Kellerman#Paris23 pic.twitter.com/eJx8xPq8jT

— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) July 12, 2023

After reaching the T13 200m closing with a 25.32-second clocking Tuesday evening, Borgella ran a T13 Canadian file of 25 seconds within the closing, reaching the rostrum once more in her first Para world championships. On Monday, within the T13 100m closing, Borgella gained bronze in a close to private greatest time of 12.26 seconds, incomes a qualification spot for Canada on the 2024 Paralympics in Paris.

Borgella engaged in a head-to-head battle with Adi Iglesias from Spain through the closing 100m, sharing the lead popping out of the bend. Iglesias managed to tug forward of Borgella within the final 20 metres and took gold in 24.86 seconds.

The 20-year-old sprinter has been Canada’s breakout star on the 2023 Para Athletics World Championships, profitable two of Canada’s 5 medals on the Video games.  

Borgella is within the T13 Para classification for monitor runners with a visible impairment. T13 means they’ve a restricted discipline of view, their peripheral imaginative and prescient is restricted and their central imaginative and prescient may be blurry.

Lakatos wins his seventeenth profession medal

One in every of Canada’s best Para athletes, Brent Lakatos, gained his seventeenth world championship medal of his profession on Tuesday, profitable silver within the males’s T53 400m. The athlete who edged Lakatos for gold, Pongsakorn Paeyo of Thailand, broke his personal world file to defend his world championship T53 400m title in 46.11 seconds.

The 2023 Paris Para Athletics World Championships is Lakatos’s seventh world championship on Group Canada. Athletes within the T53 classification have full use of their arms however don’t have any or restricted trunk operate.

Canadian file for Austin Smeenk within the T34 400m

Para Group Canada captain Austin Smeenk of Oakville, Ont., gained his first medal on the 2023 worlds within the T34 400m. Smeenk took bronze in a good race, breaking his earlier Canadian file and private greatest in 49.32 seconds. Smeenk can also be scheduled to compete within the T34 100m and 800m later within the week.

First main 🥇gold & a WORLD RECORD to Thailand’s 🇹🇭 Chaiwat RATTANA within the males’s 400m T34 (48.65).

🥈Mohamed ALHAMMADI 🇦🇪49.21
🥉Austin SMEENK 🇨🇦49.32

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📊Schedule & outcomes: https://t.co/iDFcKODdZE #PARIS23 #ParaAthletics pic.twitter.com/QwrLoccLQ8

— #ParaAthletics #PARIS23 (@ParaAthletics) July 11, 2023

The T34 classification is for wheelchair monitor athletes with motion affected to a low diploma within the trunk and arms and a excessive diploma affecting the legs. These athletes should compensate for the lowered co-ordination of muscle actions.