Two Spanish participants on the fifth day of the Paralympic World Championships in Athletics in Paris and two silver medals for the Spanish team. In the morning, the visually impaired athlete Yassine Ouhdadi was proclaimed vice-world champion in the 1,500m, category T13, and in the afternoon, Sara Andrés did the same in the main sprint event for athletes with prostheses. of leg, the 100 m T64. . With these two silver medals, nine medals for the Spanish team at Paris 2023 have already reached the halfway point of the competition.

During the morning session of the fifth day, Yassine Ouhdadi won his second medal at the World Championships by winning silver in the 1,500m event, category T13, with a time of 4:00.92. Three days after being proclaimed world champion in the 5,000m, the Catalan athlete obtained his second metal in an exciting race, very tactical and which was only resolved in the final stretch, where the Spaniard overtook three of his rivals in a spectacular sprint. .

Ahead of Ouhdadi, the favorite, the Paralympic vice-champion Rouay Jebabli, of Tunisia, (4’00”23) won the gold, while they were accompanied on the podium with the bronze by the Algerian Abdellatif Baka (4’01”13) .

The Spanish athlete – who finished sixth in this same event at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games – therefore ends his participation in the World Cup in Paris in spectacular fashion and becomes one of the main medal-winning assets of the Spanish team at the Games. Paralympics next year. in the same French capital.

For her part, Sara Andrés had an excellent competition in the demanding T64 category, in which four athletes with prosthetic legs ran the 100 meters in less than 13 seconds.

The only one who stood up to her was world record holder Fleur Jong of the Netherlands, who clocked 12.47. The Spaniard clocked a record 12.83, overtaking third-placed Canadian Marissa Papaconstantinou with 12.95.

With the two medals, Spain already has 9 medals, 2 gold (Adiaratou Iglesias and Yassine Ouhdadi), 4 silver (Iglesias, Ouhdadi, Gerard Descarrega and Sara Andrés) and 3 bronze (Judith Tortosa, Joan Munar and Alvaro del Love). This number of metals, while we are still in the middle of the competition, exceeds all those achieved at the World Cup in Dubai four years ago (there were eight) and equals all those achieved by Spain in athletics at the Tokyo Paralympic Games.