Venezuela won three gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Of particular note is parapower, where Clara Fuentes also achieved the Paralympic record.
The Venezuelan delegation that participated in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games finished in 34th place in the medal table with six medals: three gold, two silver and one bronze, as well as bringing home about 12 diplomas; which shows the high level of the athletes in this sporting event.
This is what he recalled in social networks the Ministry of Sport and the Venezuelan Paralympic Committee, where they recall that the gold medals went to Enderson Santos and his guide Eubring Maza in the 400-meter flat class T11 (runners who have an almost total visual disability); Clara Fuentes, in the -50 kilogram category in parapower – where she achieved a Paralympic record – and Naibys Moreno, in the javelin throw class F46 (which brings together athletes with amputations of upper limbs).
The silver medals were won by Lisbeli Vera in the 400-meter flat class T47 (runners with a limited movement to a low or moderate degree of one arm, or the absence of limbs) and Alejandra Perez with her guide Eubring Maza, in the 200-meter flat class T12 (runners who have a visual disability whose field of vision is restricted to a radius of less than five degrees and/or have the ability to recognize a moving object at a distance of one meter).
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Marcos Blanco, meanwhile, won bronze in the 60-kilogram J1 category at the Paralympics (for those with total visual impairment).
This performance was very close to equaling the best harvest in the history of the Creole delegation in the Paralympic Games, which is seven medals (three gold, two silver and a pair of bronze) in Tokyo 2020.
Meanwhile, the Paralympic diplomas were won by:
- Franyelis Vargas, T11 class, after finishing in seventh position
- Yomaira Cohen, class F37 in the shot put, finishing in sixth place
- Emma Rodríguez achieved seventh place in the paratriathlon
- Alejandra Perez, fourth place in the 400 meters flat class T12
- Leonela Vera, fifth place in the 400 meters flat class
- Linda Perez, achieved fourth place in the 100-meter flat class T11
- Luis Felipe Rodríguez, who in the T20 class of the 400 meters flat obtained a sixth place
- Belkis Mota takes home a diploma after finishing in eighth place in the 100-meter breaststroke class SB12
- Paola García, in fourth position in the T47 Long Jump final
- Edwars Valera, achieved fifth place in the F37 class discus throw
- Linda Perez, T11 fourth place in the 200m
- Danitza Sanabria, J1 judo seventh position
On the other hand, the medal table was led by China (220 medals), Great Britain (124 medals) and the United States (105 medals); while the best positioned Latin American countries in the Paralympics were Brazil (in fifth place with 89 medals) and Colombia (19th place with 28), he says. Union Radio.
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