Penn State Alum Shawn Morelli Wins Paralympic Gold Medal

This isn’t the first time Paul’s won gold at the Games.

He has won several medals in national and regional events, including two golds at the 2009 and 2014 ASEAN Para Games and a gold medal at the 2015 Asian Weightlifting Championships.

Team SA performed very well and placed well in their events, and most will be participating in the next rounds of their events. “Nothing makes me happier than breaking my ownrecord”, Tuoi Tre newspaper quoted him as saying.

15-year-old Paralympic debutant Ellie Robinson collected gold in style in the final of the women’s 50m butterfly S6 event, posting a time of 35.58s to set a new Paralympic record.

Brazil’s Daniel Dias is the third swimmer featured in our top five, but his achievements are simply impossible to ignore. “It wasn’t just me in the pool tonight, it was the whole squad, coach and family etc”.

If Dias competes again at Tokyo in four years, he would even have a chance to overtake Phelps. I hit a blank and went out way too fast but I can surely say I tried my best. “The medal is the effect of that work”.

Zhe added another silver medal to the one she won in this event at London 2012.

“It was more emotional than I could have imagined”, he said afterwards.

Brazilian police said Thursday they want to question International Olympic Committee head Thomas Bach as a witness in investigations of a suspected ticket scam by officials during last month’s Games.

After an evening’s work, it was back to the Athletes’ Village and bed for Dias – and the medal went with him.

“To be honest with you I was so pleased with how it went this morning; it was so tactical, I got myself in the lane that I wanted to be in and [Denise Grahl] pushed me all the way”.

“Later they told us that our son had been born with no hands or feet”, she remembered, although he does have one leg.

He discovered swimming at 16, inspired by Paralympic swimmer Clodoaldo Silva, who has his own medal collection from Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London and lit the cauldron during Rio’s opening ceremony on Wednesday. He had much suffering to overcome and prejudice, including the teasing by fellow students who he remembers “touching me to see if I was real”.