In another successful day, Team Hellas won two more medals (a silver and a bronze) at the Paris Paralympic Games 2024, taking its medal tally to seven.
Silver medal for Tsapatakis in 100m breaststroke SB4
Antonis Tsapatakis won a silver medal at the Paris Paralympics with an incredible race in the final of the 100m breaststroke SB4, with a time of 1:36.16.
Tsapatakis came second behind Russian world record holder, Dmitry Chernyaev who won the race in 1:32.20. Italian Manuel Matteo Bruzzo came in third with a time of 1:42.52.
“I feel as though for one more day, I was and remained free. Another day where I gave my best and it doesn’t matter the result because I know that if I lay down tonight to sleep, if I manage to sleep, that I have given it my all,” Tsapatakis said after his race.
Bronze in the discus throw for Tzounis
With a throw of 41.32m, Konstantinos Tzounis won the bronze medal in the discus throw (F56 category) at the Paris Paralympic Games.
In his 5th throw, Tzounis sent his discus to 41 meters and 32 centimeters, while the rest of his attempts were measured at 39.14m, 39.90m and 37.87m, while he also had two invalid.
The gold medal was won by the Brazilian, Claudiney Do Santos Batista with 46.86m and the silver, the Indian, Yoges Katounia with 42.22m.
“It was a goal of mine, to become a Paralympian with a medal. And I wanted first of all to prove to myself that everything I did after Tokyo was not wasted,” he said after his match.
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