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09-14-2016, 05:00 AM
4 Paralympic athletes clock faster race time than Olympic gold medalist
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At the Rio Olympics, Matthew Centrowitz Jr. took home gold in the 1,500-meter final with a time of 3 minutes and 50 seconds.*
On Monday, four runners with visual disabilities bested that time (https://youtu.be/1sB1b1EE8AA?t=9m) in the same event at the Rio Paralympic Games.*
That's right. **t just one runner. **t two. **t even threeFour.
SEE ALSO: Malaysia's incredible Paralympic performance at Rio continues with third gold (http://mashable.com/2016/09/13/malaysia-third-gold-paralympics/)
Algerian Abdellatif Baka led the pack, clinching gold and setting a Paralympic world record with a time of 3 minutes and 48.29 seconds.
Ethiopia's Tamiru Demisse and Kenya's Henry Kirwa got silver and bronze, respectively.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/13/visually-impaired-runners-paralympic-games/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Rio 2016 (http://mashable.com/category/rio-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), International Paralympic Committee (http://mashable.com/category/international-paralympic-committee/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Abdellatif Baka (http://mashable.com/category/abdellatif-baka/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Rio De Janeiro (http://mashable.com/category/rio-de-janeiro/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Rio (http://mashable.com/category/rio/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/kEWLpMtPQXI
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At the Rio Olympics, Matthew Centrowitz Jr. took home gold in the 1,500-meter final with a time of 3 minutes and 50 seconds.*
On Monday, four runners with visual disabilities bested that time (https://youtu.be/1sB1b1EE8AA?t=9m) in the same event at the Rio Paralympic Games.*
That's right. **t just one runner. **t two. **t even threeFour.
SEE ALSO: Malaysia's incredible Paralympic performance at Rio continues with third gold (http://mashable.com/2016/09/13/malaysia-third-gold-paralympics/)
Algerian Abdellatif Baka led the pack, clinching gold and setting a Paralympic world record with a time of 3 minutes and 48.29 seconds.
Ethiopia's Tamiru Demisse and Kenya's Henry Kirwa got silver and bronze, respectively.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/13/visually-impaired-runners-paralympic-games/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Rio 2016 (http://mashable.com/category/rio-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), International Paralympic Committee (http://mashable.com/category/international-paralympic-committee/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Abdellatif Baka (http://mashable.com/category/abdellatif-baka/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Rio De Janeiro (http://mashable.com/category/rio-de-janeiro/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Rio (http://mashable.com/category/rio/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/kEWLpMtPQXI