Bennett races through the water during the men's 100-metre breaststroke SB14 qualifying heats on Monday at Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris.
Canadian swimmer Nicholas Bennett captured the country's first gold medal at the Paris Paralympics on Monday in the men's SB14 100-metre breaststroke.Canada's Nicholas Bennett races through the water during the men's 100-metre breaststroke SB14 qualifying heats on Monday at Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris. He won gold in the event later in the day.
And at the halfway point, things seemed to be playing out as expected as Yamaguchi touched the 50-metre mark first with Bennett more than a half-second behind. Yamaguchi fell to the bronze-medal position in 1:04.94, while Australian Jake Michel set an Oceania-record time of 1:04.27 to snag silver.Canadian wheelchair racer Austin Smeenk captures Paralympic bronze in men's T34 100m
"I just gained the feeling of how the call room works or how everybody kind of prepares for it and also how everybody races at that really, really high level just for that really short period of time," he said.
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