Monday 20 September - Daily Summary: 3
Day three of the ATHENS 2004 Paralympic Games
On the third day of the ATHENS 2004 Paralympic Games, competitions in 14 sports took place with Final competitions in seven of them.
Yesterday, was the first day of competitions for Goalball and Powerlifting.
In Powerlifting the Finals in Men’s 48kg category and in Women’s 40kg and 48kg categories took place, in which two new World and Paralympic records were achieved. The first in Women’s 44kg category by Lucy Ogechukwu Ejike (NGR) who lifted 125.5 kg in total, 17.5kg more from the previous record. Then, Lidiya Solovyova (UKR) in Women’s 40kg category broke the World Record twice lifting 103kg and 105kg.
In Judo’s final competition day, Azerbaijan achieved its first medal with Ilham Zahiyer wining gold. The Australian Ian Rose won silver medal, while Keiji Amakawa from Japan and the 45-year old Rafael Torres Pompa won bronze medals.
In Swimming 11 Paralympic records were broken as well as World Records as the one achieved by Ben Austin (AUS) in 100m Freestyle, who won gold medal. Konstaninos Fykas from (GR) won silver medal and Ricardo Moffatti (AUS) bronze.
In Wheelchair Fencing competitions Hong Kong had an incredible lead. Chui Yee Yu and Yui Chong Chan added two more gold medals in their country’s list in Men’s Individual Epee.
In Athletics, Alexei Ivanov (RUS) took the first place in Men’s 1.500m breaking the World Record achieving time 3:26:80. Adria Santos from Brazil won gold medal in Men’s 100m T11, time 12:55, after suffering a knee injury.
