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Paralympics 2024: Ukrainian Yehor Dementyev wins silver in cycling track

31 August, 2024 Saturday
20:02

At the 2024 Paralympic Games, Ukrainian athlete Yehor Dementyev won a silver medal in the individual 4000-meter pursuit in the C5 class

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Suspilne Sport reports.

At the 2024 Paralympics, the Ukrainian athlete qualified and finished second with a time of 4:17.785. Frenchman Dorian Foulon broke the world record with a time of 4:13.934 minutes.

In the finals, Dementyev was in second place for almost the entire distance. At the end of the race, the Ukrainian closed the gap, but failed to win first place.

It should be noted that the 2024 Paralympics will be the fourth in his career for Yehor Dementyev. The Ukrainian made his debut in London 2012, where he became a two-time champion in the road race and the time trial, and in Rio 2016 he defended his gold medal in the individual time trial.

Paralympic Games 2024

Individual persuit (4000 m, class C5)

1. Dorian Foulon (France) - 4:16.169 minutes

2. Yehor Dementyev (Ukraine) - 4:17.785

3. Elouan Gardon (USA) - 4:18.880

This is the first medal for Ukraine in cycling at the 2024 Paralympic Games.

How Ukraine performs

At the Paris Games, Ukrainian Paralympians won gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze medals. Our team is ranked 14th in the medal standings.

Gold medal winners:

Oleksandr Komarov (swimming, 100 m, freestyle, men, class S5)

Silver medals:

Anton Kol (swimming, 100 m, backstroke, class S1), Iryna Poyda (swimming, 200 m, freestyle, class S5), Vladyslav Bilyi (javelin throw, class F38), Iryna Poyda (swimming, 100 m, freestyle, class S5), Natalia Kobzar (athletics, 200 m, class T37), Volodymyr Ponomarenko (athletics, shot put, class F12), Yehor Dementyev (individual medley, 4000 m, class S5)

Bronze medals:

Anna Hontar (swimming, 50 meters, freestyle, class S6), Oleksandr Komarov (swimming, 200 meters, freestyle, class S5), Viktor Didukh, Iryna Shynkariova (table tennis, mixed doubles, class XD17), Roman Danyliuk (athletics, shot put, class F12).

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