Algeria's Abdellatif Baka won gold in the 1,500-metre race in the Rio Paralympics on Sunday in a classification for visually impaired runners. Baka ran the race faster than the Olympic gold medallist in the same event. If Sunday’s Paralympic 1,500-metre race had run beside the Olympic 1,500-metre race that occurred in the same stadium three weeks earlier, only then, behind all four Paralympians, would the man who won Olympic gold cross the finish line. Amazement at the performance of the Paralympic runners — who competed without guides in the T12/T13 final, a classification for visually impaired runners with the least amount of impairment — has swept around the world since Sunday’s race. it shows that people who are partially sighted or visually impaired can be just as fast as everyone else.

Source: thestar September 14, 2016 02:37 UTC