{"id":259211,"date":"2019-10-04T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=259211"},"modified":"2019-10-04T18:44:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T21:44:51","slug":"brazilians-to-compete-in-dubai-para-athletics-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilians-to-compete-in-dubai-para-athletics-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilians to compete in Dubai Para Athletics Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Forty-three athletes were called up to represent Brazil in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paralympic.org\/dubai-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Para Athletics Championships<\/a> to run from November 7 to 15 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The announcement was made this Friday morning (4) by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpb.org.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazilian Paralympic Committee<\/a> (CPB). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpb.org.br\/upload\/link\/891fb18e423a4cf7bae08029baec5ef4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out the athlete list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the main athletics competition and determines tickets to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paralympic.org\/tokyo-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games<\/a>. In the last edition, Brazil ranked ninth achieving eight gold, seven silver and six bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrazil has come a long way on the world stage. We\u2019re among the world\u2019s best, and this delegation is made up of athletes who qualified with a performance that puts it in the top three. It\u2019ll be a very strong team in Dubai, and our expectations are very high, as they should be,\u201d Brazilian Paralympic Committee head coach Amaury Ver\u00edssimo was quoted as saying in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Playoffs ended last Sunday (29) at Brazilian Loterias Caixa Athletics Championships (<em>pictured above<\/em>) at CT Paral\u00edmpico in S\u00e3o Paulo. The tryouts featured 600 competitors. The World Championships in Dubai expect 1,300 athletes from over 100 countries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paralympic.org\/london-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a> hosted the last event in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Para athletics is one of Brazil\u2019s most victorious adapted sports. At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paralympic.org\/rio-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rio 2016 Paralympic Games<\/a>, the Brazilian delegation won 38 medals, ranking in more than a half of the total 72 podiums.<\/p>\n<p>Last march, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abudhabi2019.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UAE<\/a> hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/abu-dhabi-special-olympics-to-include-36-athletes\/\">Abu Dhabi Special Olympics<\/a>, an event that welcomed 7,500 intellectually challenged athletes from some 190 countries. Thirty-six Brazilian athletes competed in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-259184\">Ale Cabral\/CPB<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian Paralympic Committee announced this Friday (4) the call-up of 43 athletes to represent Brazil in World Championships in Dubai, UAE, from November 7 to 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2305,"featured_media":259184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[11776,11544,2424,9621,11778,11780,11779,11782,11781,11783,11813,11777,11784],"class_list":{"0":"post-259211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-brazilian-athletes","10":"tag-brazilian-paralympic-committee","11":"tag-dubai-en","12":"tag-dubai-world-championships","13":"tag-para-athletics","14":"tag-para-atletics-world-championships","15":"tag-paralympic-games-en","16":"tag-paralympics","17":"tag-tokyo-2020-en","18":"tag-tokyo-2020-ar","19":"tag-world-championships","20":"tag-world-para-athletics-championships-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazilian Paralympic Committee announced this Friday (4) the call-up of 43 athletes to represent Brazil in World Championships in Dubai, UAE, from November 7 to 15.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}