Paris 2024 Paralympics: GB’s Breen misses out on lengthy leap medal regardless of lifeless warmth

Heavy rain fell all through Thursday morning within the French capital, with standing water current on the observe in Stade de France.

However Nicholson made gentle of the circumstances as she threw 9.44 metres – simply 0.03m in need of her private greatest – to assert third place.

Mariia Pomazan of Ukraine and China’s Wang Jun have been nicely forward of the sector in first and second, throwing 12.75m and 11.94 m respectively.

Bronze represents the end result of a robust three years for Nicholson, since she completed sixth in 2021 on the earlier Paralympics in Tokyo.

The 29-year-old from Cumbria lately set a brand new PB on the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Paris, including 35cm to her earlier greatest, and all however matched that mark when it counted within the Paralympic last.

“It is completely wonderful. Truthfully, the exhausting work during the last 10 years has been completely value it,” she stated.

“This has been such a very good yr, private bests galore, so we knew if I went out and did my greatest then we stood an opportunity of a medal.”

Thursday night in Paris will see GB go for a number of gold medals.

Sammi Kinghorn, who gained gold within the T53 100m on Wednesday and two silvers earlier within the Video games, goals for a fourth 2024 medal within the 400m.

Daniel Pembroke defends his males’s F13 javelin title and 41-year-old Dan Greaves competes in his seventh Paralympics within the males’s F64 discus, whereas Maguire and Woods go of their finals.

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