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Clegg and Kinghorn progress, Costa de Oliveira wins gold for Brazil in Rio
- Updated: September 8, 2016
Libby Clegg and Samantha Kinghorn both safely progressed through the first rounds of their respective events on the first morning of Rio Paralympics athletics action.
Clocking 12.17, Clegg was joint winner with China’s Zhou Guohua in their T11 100m heat and both will now contest tomorrow’s semi-finals where they will be joined by world record-holder Terezinha Guilhermina and China’s four-time 2015 world gold medallist Cuiqing Liu, who was just 0.02 off the world record with 12.03 to win her heat.
“I’m really happy with my start to the Games,” said Clegg, who was reclassified from a T12 to a T11 sprinter only earlier this year. “I know I can go quicker, but I think just going through all the call room procedures and getting my …
