uk12points 434 Posted September 8, 2016 Author #121 Share Posted September 8, 2016 First sporting event is set to get underway any second with the Women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 qualification, however unlike the Olympics Shooting will not be the first sport to award a gold medal, instead the first gold medal will be won on the track with the Men's 5000m T11. This will most likely be a showdown between Brazil and Chile, so a South American nation is highly likely to win the first paralympic gold medal ever to be won on South American soil! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,575 Posted September 8, 2016 #122 Share Posted September 8, 2016 10 minutes ago, uk12points said: First sporting event is set to get underway any second with the Women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 qualification Including 74-year old Elizabeth Kosmala, who debuted in 1972 (swimming bronze), won 9 shooting gold medals until 1988 and is now competing in her 12th straight Summer Paralympics If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk12points 434 Posted September 8, 2016 Author #123 Share Posted September 8, 2016 By the way - if anyone is interested in following the results then the IPC website is the best place for that, they have information about all the athletes and countries and it is much better than the official paralympic site! If anyone can access Channel 4 website (the UK Paralympic TV broadcaster) their results service is as good as the IPC website as well. A range of livestreams can be accessed on the IPC website, but they are geoblocked in some countries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,616 Posted September 8, 2016 #124 Share Posted September 8, 2016 I just discovered that they don't boardcast all sports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,616 Posted September 8, 2016 #125 Share Posted September 8, 2016 1st world record Jia signed the record in 100m Breakstroke S6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,616 Posted September 8, 2016 #126 Share Posted September 8, 2016 China on fire! 2nd world record Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,292 Posted September 8, 2016 #127 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Veronika Vadovičová qualified for the air rifle asian championships finals from 2nd place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinipereira 3,060 Posted September 8, 2016 #128 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Nice public for the Swimming preliminaries. Not a lot of people on Brazil vs Great Britain in Football 7-a-side but I suspect some people are arriving - Deodoro is very far and I think that's the only event there in Paralympics. Also the Rugby stadium is quite big for any Paralympic event, I hope to see more people in finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,616 Posted September 8, 2016 #129 Share Posted September 8, 2016 1 hour ago, uk12points said: First sporting event is set to get underway any second with the Women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 qualification, however unlike the Olympics Shooting will not be the first sport to award a gold medal, instead the first gold medal will be won on the track with the Men's 5000m T11. This will most likely be a showdown between Brazil and Chile, so a South American nation is highly likely to win the first paralympic gold medal ever to be won on South American soil! Sad, but the guy from Chile didn't start Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinipereira 3,060 Posted September 8, 2016 #130 Share Posted September 8, 2016 First medal event is underway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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