PARIS — Austin Smeenk rang the bell with gusto. The Canadian wheelchair racer won the men's T51 800 metres Saturday at the Paralympic Games in Paris.
The Canadian wheelchair racer won the men's T51 800 metres Saturday at the Paralympic Games in Paris.
"I've been looking forward to doing that since Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers did it about a month ago."Smeenk produced Canada's fifth Paralympic gold and eighth medal in track and field. Smeenk threw his arms in the air before the finish line and beat the surging Chaiwat Rattana of Thailand by two-tenths of a second.
His fiancée Celine Trapnell was among over a dozen family members and friends at the stadium to cheer on Smeenk in his third Paralympic Games. The electromechanical engineering technology student at Fanshawe College in London, Ont., put those studies on hold to relocate to Victoria in 2022 and train at Athletics Canada's West Hub with other Olympians and Paralympians."Learning to think scientifically has been crucial in refining my racing chair to the level that it's the lightest racing chair of all my competitors as well as one of the best racing chairs, I believe, at the Paralympics this year," he said.
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