Thai wheelchair racer Pongsakorn Paeyo celebrates with his gold medal after winning the men's 400m T53 competition in a new world record time at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday. Wheelchair racer Pongsakorn Paeyo broke the world record as he won Thailand's first gold medal at the Paralympic Games at Tokyo's Olympic Stadium on Sunday. Pongsakorn, who also set a new Paralympic record of 47.31 earlier in the day, won both the T53 400m and 800m events at the Rio Paralympic Games five years ago. The gold medal went to Roderick Townsend with a new world record of 2.15m. In the swimming pool, Japan's Naohide Yamaguchi setting a new world record of 1min, 3.77sec in the men's 100m breaststroke SB14.

Source: Bangkok Post August 29, 2021 23:03 UTC