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Sabrina Fortune secures shot put bronze at Rio Paralympics
- Updated: September 10, 2016
Sabrina Fortune took the British athletics team’s medal haul to eight on the third morning of competition at the Rio Paralympic Games.
Throwing a personal best of 12.94m, the world and European fourth-placer went one better to claim her first global medal in a competition won by Poland’s Ewa Durska with a world record of 13.94m.
“To get a medal and a PB is just unbelievable,” said the 19-year-old, who had gone into the competition with a lifetime best of 12.76m from earlier this summer. “It is such an honour to represent my country at these Games.
“Going into the competition I thought I had a chance of winning a medal but I wanted a PB before I did anything else.”
Fortune had been in bronze medal position from the first round as she opened with a 12.33m effort, but she saved her best until last to consolidate that place.
Durska improved her own world record in the fifth round, while Ukraine’s Anastasiia Mysnyk secured silver with a 13.24m PB.
To the delight of the home crowd, Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos ran a T47 100m world record of 10.67 in the heats to secure his spot in Sunday’s final. Another world …
