Wheelchair racers Prawat Wahoram and Pongsakorn Paeyo won Thailand’s very first 2 gold medals of the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
Veteran Prawat, 35, won the males’s 5,000 m T54 title, while teen Pongsakorn was champ in the males’s 400m T53.
Table tennis star Rungroj Thainiyom.
Prawat clocked 11.01.71 minutes to declare his 6th Paralympic gold, ahead of Marcel Hug of Switzerland (11.02.04) and Kurt Fearnley of Australia (11.02.37).
Thailand’s world champ and hot preferred Rawat Tana had a frustrating race, ending up 6th in 11.02.72.
It is Prawat’s 6th gold medal because making his Paralympic launching at Sydney 2000 however initially because Beijing 2008.
The Sa Kaeo local has actually likewise won 6 silver and one bronze medals.
With Rawat and Hug in case, Prawat was thought about an outsider to win gold in the 5,000 m T54 occasion however he showed his critics incorrect.
” I enjoy to recover the title I lost 4 years earlier in London,” stated Prawat.
” I still have an opportunity to win more medals in the 1,500 m, 800m and 4x400m relay. Please continue providing me assistance.”
Khon Kaen-born Pongsakorn, 19, crossed the goal in 47.91 sec to beat Brent Lakatos of Canada (48.53) and Pierre Fairbank of France (49.00 ).
It is Pongsakorn’s 2nd medal of the Rio Games, having actually ended up second behind Lakatos in the 100m race.
Pongsakorn, Thailand’s very first medallist in Rio, has 2 more occasions– the 800m and 4x400m relay.
Prawat and Pongsakorn will each get a 7.2 million baht perk from the National Sports Advancement Fund for winning a gold medal.
Pongsakorn will likewise get another 4.8 million baht thanks to his silver medal.
Chutinant Bhirombhakdi, president of the Paralympic Committee of Thailand, applauded Prawat and Pongsakorn for their great efficiencies.
” Prawat is Thailand’s famous Paralympian. When it comes to Pongsakorn, we anticipated him to acquire experience in Rio and shine in the next Paralympics however he did surpass our expectations,” he stated.
” There are a number of days to go and I am positive that we can win more gold medals.”
Thailand intend to take house a minimum of 4 gold medals at the Rio Paralympics which end on Sept 18.
On the other hand, safeguarding table tennis champ Rungroj Thainiyom stopped working to measure up to his billing.
The 29-year-old lost 3-1 (11-3, 11-9, 10-12, 11-3) to world No. 1 Alvaro Valera of Spain in the semi-finals of the males’s songs Class 6.
It was sweet vengeance for Valera who was beat by Rungroj in the last at London 2012.
Valera, nevertheless, lost 3-2 to No. 2 Peter Rosenmeier of Denmark in this year’s last.
Rungroj got an alleviation reward when he beat Park Hong-Kyu of South Korea in the third-place play-off.
A bronze medal deserves 3 million baht under the National Sports Advancement Fund’s perk plan.
” I am sorry that I might not win the gold medal for the fans,” Rungroj stated.
In boccia, safeguarding champs Thailand will today handle Japan in the last of the combined group BC1-2.
The Thais– Pattaya Tadtong, Worawut Saengampa, Subin Tipmanee and Watcharaphon Vongsa– are set up to handle Japan at 5.30 am today, Thai time.
Because signing up with the Paralympics in 1984, Thailand have actually won 15 gold, 19 silver and 21 bronze medals.
On the other hand, 3 weeks earlier, organisers and occasion fans were stressed that the 2016 Paralympics would not be well-attended.
However when Sao Paulo resident Marco Fumis reached a dynamic Olympic Park on Saturday, he was blown away with what he saw.
” I’m favorably amazed by this, “stated Fumis.” We are actually psychological individuals, and I believe we understood how crucial it is for not just the Olympics however the Paralympics. A great deal of us are here to much better comprehend how these professional athletes do what they do, so we’re here to support.”
The fan assistance is considerable. The 170,000 tickets cost occasions at Olympic Park on Saturday, went beyond the one-day overall for some days at the current Olympics.
” It was a truly, actually cool environment due to the fact that normally we have like 5 individuals in the stands and now we have a whole fitness center,” United States females’s sitting volley ball gamer Heather Erickson stated after her group swept Iran 3-0.
On Sunday, 46,000 tickets were cost Olympic Arena, the track and field location different from Olympic Park, according to the International Paralympic Committee.
” Everyone wished to discuss ‘What about London?”‘ IPC representative Craig Spence stated, describing the 2012 London Paralympics, for which a record 2.7 million tickets were offered. “However [Saturday] exceeded it for me.”
