Paralympics 2021: Johannes Floors brings gold over 400 meters

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The Paralympics victory was his dream - and Johannes Floor's was able to fulfill on Friday. The 26-year-old started 400 meters in the class T62 on its paradient route. After 45.85 seconds, the prosthesis printer came first into the finish and missed the record on the stadium round of Oskar Pistorius only 78 hundredths.

He certainly had the gold medal, it was his first single gold. With the prosthesis squadron he was already in 2016 in Rio first. At this year's Paralympics, it is the second medal for the Leverkusener: Over 100 meters he had secured bronze.

Irmgard Benusan, on the other hand, missed her first victory again. Already over 200 meters, the 30-year-old had become second, now over the 100 meters. In the start class 64, Benusan was slower with a time of 12.89 seconds eleven hundredths than the Dutchman Marlene Van Ganswinkel. It was the total fifth silver medal for Benusan, in 2006 in Rio she had occupied second place three times.

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