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Ana Cláudia da Silva, from Recife, who competed in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, also celebrated her feat of surpassing the world index in the long jump.
“We were doing jumps close to that mark in training and today we were happy to achieve this feat. An athlete’s work is hard and arduous and reaching a world record doesn’t happen overnight”, admitted Ana Cláudia, who suffered a fall and fractured her femur when she was six years old.
On Saturday (25), Acre Jerusa Geber – medalist in Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Tokyo 2020 – surpassed her own mark, the world record in the 100 m test of the T11 class (blind). Geber completed the distance in 11s83, lowering by two hundredths the index obtained by herself in 2019, also the CTP, in São Paulo.
In history, only three other athletes completed 100m in less than 12 seconds in the last four years: the Chinese Cuiqing Liu and Guohua Zhou, in addition to the British.
“I was already chasing the record at the Grand Prix in Marrakech [Marrocos], early March, which was the first competition of the year. But it was supposed to be done here, at my house. I really like this track and I feel good on it”, said Jerusa, who was born completely blind.
All world records still require homologation by Word Para Athletics (WPA), linked to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC, its acronym in English). The expectation is that the procedure will take place soon, since the Circuit meets all the criteria established by the IPC. Circuito Caixa, conceived and organized by the CPB, brought together 324 athletes this weekend (Saturday and Sunday), both on the track and on the CTP field, in São Paulo.
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