Moroccan Amine Chentouf handed Morocco a new gold medal after winning, on Sunday, the marathon race in the T12 category, included in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, which are coming to an end today.
Amine Chentouf took over of the race, crossing the distance with a time of two hours, 21 minutes and 43 seconds (2:21:43), thus setting a new Paralympic record for this distance, surpassing Australian silver medalist Jared Clifford, and Japanese Tadashi Horikoshi, who finished third and won bronze Medal.
The 40 years old Chentouf, maintained his Paralympic title after winning the gold medal at the previous Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2016.
With this achievement, Chentouf raised Morocco’s tally in these games to 11 medals, after Abdessalam Hili and Zakaria Al-Derham’s gold medals, the silver of Fawzia Al-Qassioui, Youssra Karim, Mohamed Amkoun, Izz Al-Din Nouiri, and the bronze of Hayat Al-Karaa, Saida Amoudi and the five-a-side Moroccan national football team, Morocco rises in the overall ranking to 28th place.
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