TOKYO: Athletics got under way at the Tokyo Paralympics on Friday with Brazil snagging the first track gold, as elsewhere Australia’s wheelchair rugby team battle to keep their gold medal hopes alive.
A total of 45 Paralympic golds are up for grabs on Friday, with a range of sports getting started, including archery, athletics and judo, which is being contested at Tokyo’s iconic Budokan venue.
The track and field events begin with the world’s fastest para sprinter ever, Brazilian Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos, gunning for the title of fastest Paralympian in history in the T47 100m.
Dos Santos has been called the Usain Bolt of para athletics, and clocked a world-record 10.43 seconds at the 2019 Dubai…
