On Day Three on the 2023 Para Athletics World Championships in Paris, two athletes introduced dwelling Canada’s first medals of the Video games. Guillaume Ouellet of Sorel-Tracy, Que., gained bronze within the males’s T13 5,000m, and Bianca Borgella of Rockland, Ont., adopted up Ouellet’s efficiency with a bronze and Canadian document within the girls’s T13 100m closing.
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— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) July 10, 2023
Borgella had one of many quickest instances within the qualification spherical for the T13 100m closing, with a brand new Canadian document time of 12.03 seconds in her World Championship debut. Her pace didn’t cease within the closing, operating 12.26 to choose up a bronze medal and qualification spot for Canada on the 2024 Paralympics in Paris.
Within the males’s T13 5,000m, Ouellet discovered himself within the lead group by way of the early phases and didn’t let any gaps open up. The 36-year-old caught on the heels of Australia’s Jaryd Clifford and Spain’s Yassine Ouhdadi, crossing the road in third in 15:22.85. Ouhdadi took the gold in 15:16.97, and Clifford gained silver in 15:18.23. Ouellet additionally secured a qualification spot within the T13 5,000m for the 2024 Paralympics.
GUILLAUME OUELLET WINS BRONZE 🥉
Guillaume positioned third within the Males’s T13 5000m with an official time of 15:22.85, securing Canada’s first qualification spot for the 2024 Paralympics 👏
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— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) July 10, 2023
Each Ouellet and Borgella are within the T13 Para classification, which is for monitor runners with a visible impairment. T13 means they’ve a restricted subject of view, their peripheral imaginative and prescient is restricted, and their central imaginative and prescient is usually a blur.
Twenty-five Para Canadian athletes are in Paris from July 8 to seventeenth to compete at The 2023 Para Athletics World Championships.
