Southeast.com, August 29 (Photo courtesy of Qian Lingling, Straits Herald reporter) For the first time in the Paralympic Games, Xiamen Disabled Athlete Zhu Dening won a silver medal! Yesterday evening, in the men’s 100m-T38 final of the Tokyo Paralympic Games track and field event, Chinese player Zhu Dening won the runner-up with a time of 11.00 seconds, refreshed his personal best and won the silver medal to win glory for the country!
The People’s Government of Fujian Province sent a congratulatory message to the Chinese sports delegation of the 16th Paralympic Games, and expressed its warmest congratulations to the delegation and Zhu Dening, and hoped that the athletes in our province would protect themselves and maintain their health. At the same time, we will continue to carry forward the Fujian spirit of daring to win and the spirit of self-improvement, and we will continue to work hard to achieve even better results in this Paralympic Games.
The Herald reporter learned that Zhu Dening, an athlete from Xiamen City, will compete in the Paralympic Games for the first time. In addition to the T38 men’s 100m event that has just ended, he will also participate in the T38 men’s long jump competition and hit the medal again.
Zhu Dening was born in 1999 and suffered from mild ataxia since childhood. In 2015, under the entrustment of the Municipal Disabled Persons’ Federation, he began to practice track and field with coach Yang Xiaoping. Since then, he has repeatedly won championships at all levels of competitions.
At the 3rd Asian Games for the Disabled in 2018, Zhu Dening, who was only 19 years old at the time, made a multi-line effort and won gold medals in the men’s T38 100 meters, men’s T38 200 meters, and men’s T38 long jump; At the 10th National Games for the Disabled in 2019, Zhu Dening scored 4 gold and 1 silver in track and field events; won the men’s T38 long jump champion and men’s T38 100 meters at the 2019 Disabled World Athletics Championships champion.
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