Alexjc Posted September 9, 2016 Report Posted September 9, 2016 Bronze Rory McSweeney Men's Javelin F44 class Boys on the board at last...but... GOLD Mary Fisher Womens Backstroke S11/100m and in a world record time as well.
Alexjc Posted September 9, 2016 Report Posted September 9, 2016 Silver Liam Malone Athletics Track, Men's T44/100m Sprint. Excellent.
Alexjc Posted September 9, 2016 Report Posted September 9, 2016 Day two gains NZ 4 medals, 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze. Total now: Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 2 A great effort! (For our tiny team)
micheal_warren Posted September 10, 2016 Author Report Posted September 10, 2016 Great start from the Kiwi Teeam. I really enjoy watching the Paralympics. The back stories of some of the athletes are just amazing. So inspirational actually!
micheal_warren Posted September 10, 2016 Author Report Posted September 10, 2016 And a Gold to Sophie Pascoe!
Alexjc Posted September 11, 2016 Report Posted September 11, 2016 GOLD Sophie Pascoe Women's Swimming S10/100m Backstroke An expected gold and Sophie lived up to that expectation.
Alexjc Posted September 11, 2016 Report Posted September 11, 2016 Just the one medal for day three but some good PBs. NZ Total Gold - 3 Sliver - 2 Bronze - 2 A great effort from an embarrassingly small and underfunded team. Still irks me when you see other nations now taking Paralympics as a serious event and worth funding programs.
Alexjc Posted September 11, 2016 Report Posted September 11, 2016 Silver Emma Foy/Laura Thompson Cycling B3000m Individual Pursuit.
Alexjc Posted September 12, 2016 Report Posted September 12, 2016 GOLD Sophie Pascoe Swimming Women's Medley SM10/200m NZs premier swimming athlete performs impeccably. And still has more gold set in her sight.
Alexjc Posted September 12, 2016 Report Posted September 12, 2016 Another Pascoe gold helps the total along for day 4 Gold - 4 Silver - 3 Bronze - 2
Alexjc Posted September 12, 2016 Report Posted September 12, 2016 Day five already... GOLD Cameron Leslie Swimming Men's 150m Individual Medly /SM4 Great start to what will be great day.
Alexjc Posted September 12, 2016 Report Posted September 12, 2016 The day rolls on... GOLD Sophie Pascoe Swimming Woman's Butterfly S10/100m. She's that good...
Alexjc Posted September 12, 2016 Report Posted September 12, 2016 The day rolls on...now at a sprint! GOLD Liam Malone Athletics Track 200m T44 Well done, a popular win...
Alexjc Posted September 12, 2016 Report Posted September 12, 2016 Bronze As the day winds down. Nikita Howarth. Swimming Women's Butterfly S7/50m.
Alexjc Posted September 13, 2016 Report Posted September 13, 2016 Day five... Gold - 7 Silver - 3 Bronze -3
Alexjc Posted September 13, 2016 Report Posted September 13, 2016 Day 6... Silver Holly Robinson Athletics Field Javelin F46. And now we wait for Sophie Pascoe's final event and another turn for Nikita Howarth in the pool.
Alexjc Posted September 13, 2016 Report Posted September 13, 2016 GOLD Nikita Howarth Swimming Woman's Individual Medley 200M SM7 A gold for this young 17yr old at last...Brilliant.
Alexjc Posted September 13, 2016 Report Posted September 13, 2016 Silver Sophie Pascoe Swimming Women's 100m Breaststroke S10. A great effort for a worn out after five straight days of finals Sophie.
Alexjc Posted September 14, 2016 Report Posted September 14, 2016 A quiet day 7 Bronze Jessica Hamill Athletics Field Women's Shot Put F34 class. Well done.
Alexjc Posted September 15, 2016 Report Posted September 15, 2016 Day Eight... GOLD Liam Malone Athletics Track Men's 400m T44 Absolutely brilliant race as he powered his way through the field and mowed everyone down...What a sweet way to hit New Zealand's medal target of 18!.
Alexjc Posted September 16, 2016 Report Posted September 16, 2016 Day Nine...bonus medal country... Bronze William Stedman, Athletics Track T36/400m. At only 16 years of age a great effort. Still plenty of action in the last two and a half days of events. Hopefully something on the water as well.
Mainad Posted September 16, 2016 Report Posted September 16, 2016 22 hours ago, Alexjc said: Day Eight... GOLD Liam Malone Athletics Track Men's 400m T44 Absolutely brilliant race as he powered his way through the field and mowed everyone down...What a sweet way to hit New Zealand's medal target of 18!. Not literally I hope! Liam seems to be becoming one of the poster boys of these Games. He is a big favourite on 'The Last Leg' (the light-hearted nightly Paralympic commentary show). http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/adam-hills-the-last-leg/
Alexjc Posted September 16, 2016 Report Posted September 16, 2016 Oh yeah...Liam is cracking us up as well with his off the cuff comments that are just so hilariously funny. Very much the poster boy of the NZ Team...He's also great friends with Sophie Pascoe. They have been playing his back story on TV and how he once was dissapointed that he had to compete with "disabled athletes". Such was his mindset growing up.
micheal_warren Posted September 17, 2016 Author Report Posted September 17, 2016 It's been a fantastic games for the New Zealand Paralympic Team. The team has exceeded their goal of 18 medals. I was interviewed a few days ago by Fairfax Media regarding whether or not Paralympians get enough recognition for their performance. You can read the article here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/84149177/are-new-zealands-paralympians-getting-due-recognition-for-their-athleticism
Alexjc Posted September 17, 2016 Report Posted September 17, 2016 8 hours ago, micheal_warren said: It's been a fantastic games for the New Zealand Paralympic Team. The team has exceeded their goal of 18 medals. I was interviewed a few days ago by Fairfax Media regarding whether or not Paralympians get enough recognition for their performance. You can read the article here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/84149177/are-new-zealands-paralympians-getting-due-recognition-for-their-athleticism A really big thank you needs to go to TVNZ, ACC, and NZon Air. Such excellent "smother coverage". (It does help in the era of on line instant access). Medallists getting a mention at the front end of the news cycle and chunk of the sports section help. Attitudes have changed as we have seen NZ starting to embrace any international event we participate in. Listening to people talking about the Paralympians success shows this. Getting over the "ickky" factor of melformed bodies is a big thing and TVNZ focusing on the swimming was/is a deliberate ploy. TVNZs 'Attitude' show producers wanted this. Its easier to accept Pascoes' missing lower leg but Nikita Haworth's undeveloped arms takes some getting use to on an otherwise hot athletic body. Of course personality counts...Liam Malone and Sophie Pascoe attests to this. With such positive attitudes they keep going when fully abled bodied athletes would give up. Funding - well its all about $$$. As Michael had mentioned, reasonable, but considering possible over funding of Olympic events, a little more could go towards the Paralympics team. This is not our biggest team, and there were potentially more medals out there... Its now day 10 and the last full day of competition. Hoping for a couple more medals.
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