Athletics - Women's 200m - T12 Final - London 2012 Paralympic Games
- 7 years ago
Medallists GOLD EL HANNOUNI Assia FRA - France Guide: SIMOUNET Gautier
SILVER ZHOU Guohua CHN - People's Republic of China Guide: LI Jie
BRONZE ZHU Daqing CHN - People's Republic of China Guide: ZHANG Hui
LONDON, 6 September Assia EL HANNOUNI (FRA) said that London 2012 would
be her last Paralympic Games but breaking the T12 women's 200m world
record with a time of 24.80 and retaining the title she won in Athens
2004 and Beijing 2008 may convince her to reconsider. If this was her
last international appearance, it was a fitting way to bring down the
curtain on an outstanding career in which she has won eight gold medals
across three Games. She had to work hard for her final victory, though,
and only overtook ZHOU Guohua (CHN) 30m from the line, the Chinese
athlete finishing second in an Asian record 24.66. "Finally my guide
has a gold medal. We have a world record (24.46 seconds) and a gold
medal. We came last off the turn. You thought I wasn't going to make
it, but I knew I would." For further information, please visit
http://www.paralympic.org. To watch live action and videos on demand of
the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and subscribe to ParalympicSport.TV,
please go to www.youtube.com/ParalympicSportTV. Also, you may follow
the Paralympic Movement on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/ParalympicGames or on Twitter at
http://www.twitter.com/paralympic.
SILVER ZHOU Guohua CHN - People's Republic of China Guide: LI Jie
BRONZE ZHU Daqing CHN - People's Republic of China Guide: ZHANG Hui
LONDON, 6 September Assia EL HANNOUNI (FRA) said that London 2012 would
be her last Paralympic Games but breaking the T12 women's 200m world
record with a time of 24.80 and retaining the title she won in Athens
2004 and Beijing 2008 may convince her to reconsider. If this was her
last international appearance, it was a fitting way to bring down the
curtain on an outstanding career in which she has won eight gold medals
across three Games. She had to work hard for her final victory, though,
and only overtook ZHOU Guohua (CHN) 30m from the line, the Chinese
athlete finishing second in an Asian record 24.66. "Finally my guide
has a gold medal. We have a world record (24.46 seconds) and a gold
medal. We came last off the turn. You thought I wasn't going to make
it, but I knew I would." For further information, please visit
http://www.paralympic.org. To watch live action and videos on demand of
the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and subscribe to ParalympicSport.TV,
please go to www.youtube.com/ParalympicSportTV. Also, you may follow
the Paralympic Movement on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/ParalympicGames or on Twitter at
http://www.twitter.com/paralympic.