Tokyo awakens after yesterday’s avalanche of medals, September 1st, still in the name of Italian sports talents. The first medal at today’s Tokyo Paralympics is a second time in this edition for Oney Tapia: after the bronze in weight, the Italian-Cuban athlete also gets third place in the F11 category disc. Under pouring rain, Tapia throws 39.52, a measure that places him on the third step of the podium behind the winner of the race, the Brazilian da Silva (43.16), and the Iranian Olad, second with 40.60.
During the night the German Marcus Rehm won, dominating, the long jump competition with the measure of 8.18, reopening the case: for some time he has been asking to be able to compete even among able-bodied athletes. And the measures are on his side: he would have classified in fourth place, on a par with the Spaniard Eusebio Caceres, in the final of the Tokyo Olympics won by the Greek Miltiades Tentoglou.