SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico,- The sprinter Omara Durand won the 100-meter race on Thursday, adding another gold medal to her total of 10 medals at the Paralympic Games.
The Cubanworld record holder, made history in the final of the T12 category (visually impaired), together with his guide Yuniol Kindelán, with a time of 11.81 seconds.
The Santiago native was followed by the Ukrainian Oksana Boturchuk (12.17) and the German Katrin Mueller-Rottgart (12.26).
This Thursday was the second medal Paris 2024 gold for Durand, who also won the 400 metres on Tuesday.
“The queen of Paralympic speed has won 10 crowns in these events and has added her second in the French capital. Omara is simple, modest, cheerful, Omara is also Cuba, as heroic and warm as her native Santiago,” wrote sports journalist Guillermo Rodríguez in a triumphant tone.
Durand and his guide Kindelán will be chasing a third Paralympic title in the 200-meter distance, which he won at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, and which would give him his eleventh gold medal.
This is the fourth title for the Cuban in the 100m event, a distance in which she also won in London 2012 (with 12.00 seconds), Rio 2016 (11.40, current world record) and Tokyo 2020 (11.49).
On Tuesday, she won the 400m T12 with a time of 53.59 seconds, the best of the season. Silver and bronze went to Iran’s Hajar Safarzadeh Ghahderijani (55.39) and Ukraine’s Oksana Boturchuk (55.67).
Cuba traveled to Paris with 21 athletes, 13 men and eight women competing in eight sports: athletics (9), taekwondo (3), shooting (3), swimming (2), judo, weights, table tennis and archery, 1. Among those who have already said goodbye to the Olympic event are swimmer Yosjaniel Hernández (SM7), shooter Yenigladys Suárez, taekwondoka Lidia Montes de Oca and archer Leydis Posada.
