I haven't seen my daughters since July 10th. I am just very grateful for everything all those people do that allows me to get here and cross that line first. Smyth admitted: "It was the toughest finish ever for sure. I wasn't percent sure I won , I thought I was slightly ahead but it was so close. I knew going into the final that I've been there and done it before and that this was the Algerian' first time on this stage.
It was about me trying to put him under pressure. I certainly felt that I did that over the first half of the race but I tightened up a bit at the end.
You put people under pressure, under 10 seconds, and it makes room for mistakes and errors. Fastest Paralympian. Records are there to be beaten. Tonight it was me but that Algerian is right there and on another night it could have been him. Cavan's Britney Arendse bettered her personal best three times with a kg lift leaving her seventh in the 73kg class of the powerlifting and Kerrie Leonard is through to the last eight of the W2 individual in archery.
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Top Stories. Six years ago the budding Northern Irish sprinter was looking to find some money to help him with his training.
H is father got in contact with UK Athletics and the Ireland's equivalent governing body to ask if they could help.
Even though Smyth was already running at competition speeds the British never bothered to return his father's calls. Ireland were more than happy to snap him up. British officials are now ruing the day they ignored Smyth's pleas. In the intervening six years the sprinter - who has only ten percent vision from Stargardt's disease - has become the fastest Paralympian on earth.
Much like Usain Bolt did this summer, Smyth won both the and metres in his T13 class in Beijing and went on to successfully defend both titles at London. He broke two world records whilst doing so. It's a sobering thought but had the year-old been running for Paralympics GB, the team might have retained second place in the medal tables and overtaken Russia. As an aspiring athlete Smyth says his decision to run for Ireland was more practical than it was patriotic. They just didn't do much about it which made my decision to go for Ireland a lot easier.
That makes you get up and do more and make progress. The condition causes progressive vision loss. Start of sporting career He took up the sport in at age Reason for taking up this sport A teacher encouraged him to attend the local athletics club. Hero English football player Steven Gerrard.
Most influential person in career His family. Home Disability News. Jason is also scheduled to run in the m and the 4xm relay.
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