4 disabled athletes run faster than Olympic champions

Those who think that disabled athletes are more limited in their ability to compete than their able-bodied counterparts may have to think again after learning the results of the 1,500m race at the 2016 Paralympics.

From left to right: Tamiru Demisse (silver, Ethiopia), Baka (gold, Algeria) and Henry Kirwa (bronze, Kenya) (Photo: Daily Mail)

The final of the 1,500m T13 disability category ended with victory for Abdellatif Baka (Algeria). He won the gold medal and set a world record with a time of 3 minutes 48.29 seconds.

This achievement is even 1.7 seconds faster than Matthew Centrowitz, the owner of the Olympic gold medal at this distance 1 month ago (3 minutes 50 seconds).

What's special is that not just one but four athletes finished in less time than the American Olympic champion. Among them, Baka's younger brother Fouad finished fourth with a time of 3 minutes 49.59 seconds.

This is an impressive achievement because T13 is an eye-disability category, meaning that athletes participating in this event still have to run on their own two feet and are "road-blind".

Meanwhile, if it is the T44 disability category, for people with leg disabilities, it is more difficult to evaluate whether athletes achieve better results than normal people due to the support of high-tech prosthetic legs, as in the case of famous athlete Oscar Pistorius.

Video: Men's 1,500m Final, Disabled Class T13

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