With gold in her reach, she wiped out. She ended up in eighth place after finishing in 1:40:37.
“I wasn’t careful enough and I should have slowed down on that curve. I could have won because I’m faster on the track than the two Swiss marathoners (Edith Hunkeler who broke the Paralympic record in finishing first and Sandra Graf, who was third),” said Roy. “It was almost in my pocket, and I wanted the gold medal that I lost in the 5000m.
Earlier in the Games, Roy had been awarded the gold medal after finished first in a race involving a spectacular crash. But after a protest was filed, the race was re-run. In the re-run race, Roy finished second.
Michel Filteau (St-Jean-Baptiste, QC), who had his second best time of the season (1:28.13), finished 16th in a field of 38 participants racing in category T54.
Mark Ledo (Maple, ON) got a flat tire around the 10-kilometer mark of the course and didn’t finish.
In the T52 category, Clayton Gerein (Pilot Butte, SK) finished 8th in 2:8.04.
Fencing
Pierre Mainville (Saint-Colomban, Quebec) lost all five of his
preliminary round matches in men’s individual sabre. He did not qualify
for the round of 16.
“The sabre is my best style of fencing. I thought I would get further in this competition. But I tried my best and will keep training and learning,” said Mainville, just before going to see his relatives in the stands who all came to support him at his first Paralympic Games.
