More world records fall in Sunday’s opening session in Rio

Several world records were set during the Sunday morning session at the Paralympics in Rio, including one for Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos of the host nation.

The Brazilian enthused the home crowd with victory in a world record of 10.57 in the 100m T45-7, the classification for athletes with upper-limb impairment.

He had clocked 10.67 in his heat, which broke the 24-year-old T47 world record held by Ajibola Adeoye.

Another host nation medal went to Yohannson Nascimento, who took bronze with 10.79, which broke his T45 world record from London. He shared that time with Poland’s silver medallist Michal Derus (T47).

Abdul Latif Romly of Malaysia improved his world record three times to take gold in the long jump T20, the classification for intellectual disability.

In the second round, Romly went out to 7.47m, adding 12cm to the global mark which won him the world title last year. He jumped 7.54m in the next and 7.60m in the fifth round, the latter into a headwind of 1.2m/sec. His final jump of 7.49m completed a great series as the next best athlete, Croatia’s Zoran Talic, was back on 7.12m.

In the T13 class for visually impaired athletes, Leilia Adzhametova of Ukraine took seven hundredths off the 100m world record she set in qualifying, her 11.79 putting her comfortably in front of the runner-up, South Africa’s Ilse Hayes (11.91).

Yao Juan headed a China one-two in the women’s discus F44 with a world record 44.53m. Yang Yue was second with 43.47m as Cuba’s Noraivis de la Heras Chibas took bronze with 32.47m.

South Africa’s Charl du Toit just missed his world record in the 100m …

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