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Paralympic athletes clock faster race time than Olympic gold medalist



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 in the same event at the Rio
Paralympic Games.*
That's right. **t just one runner. **t two. **t even three
Four.
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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.*
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