{"id":262423,"date":"2019-11-18T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=262423"},"modified":"2019-11-18T12:49:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:49:46","slug":"brazil-comes-in-2nd-in-dubai-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-comes-in-2nd-in-dubai-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil comes in 2nd in Dubai Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Brazilian team came in second place in the overall medal table in the World Para Athletics Championships, which ended last Friday (15) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Brazilians won 14 golds, nine silvers and 16 bronzes, reaching the podium for 39 times, the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (BPC) reported.<\/p>\n<p>This was Brazil\u2019s best performance in the competition. China was the champion at 58 medals, being 25 golds, 22 silvers and 11 bronzes. The United Kingdom came in third with 28 medals, being 13 golds, nine silvers and bronzes.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilians broke records in Dubai. Beth Gomes and Alessandro Rodrigo in discus throw at the F52 (wheelchair) and F11 (blind) classifications, respectively. Para\u00edba-born C\u00edcero Valdiran broke a record in javelin thrown at F57 (wheelchair) and Petr\u00facio Ferreira at 100-meter dash T47 (arm amputation).<\/p>\n<p>Before Dubai, the Brazilian team\u2019s best performance had been at Lyon\u2019s World Championship in 2013 when he came in third. At the last competition in London in 2017, Brazil won 21 medals, being eight golds, while the previous edition in Doha 2015, Brazilians won 35 medals, being eight golds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re extremely happy. Our athletes\u2019 performance was phenomenal. We trained hard to be here, we just have to say thank your for their effort,\u201d said BPC assistant technical director and head of the Brazilian delegation the Dubai World Championship, Jonas Freire after the games.<\/p>\n<p>The athletes who won the most medals were Rayane Soares, J\u00falio C\u00e9sar Agripino, Thiago Paulino, Petr\u00facio Ferreira, Thalita Simpl\u00edcio, Daniel Martins, Claudiney Batista, Jerusa Geber, Alessandro Rodrigo, Jo\u00e3o Victor Teixeira <em>(pictured above)<\/em>, Lucas Prado, Elizabeth Gomes, and C\u00edcero Valdiran. Petr\u00facio won two golds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-262419\">Ale Cabral\/CPB<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian team won 39 medals, being 14 golds, throughout the competition that ran in the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":262419,"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":[12599,12598,11782,11781,11784],"class_list":{"0":"post-262423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dubai-paralympics","9":"tag-mundial-de-atletismo-paralimpico","10":"tag-paralympic-games-en","11":"tag-paralympics","12":"tag-world-para-athletics-championships-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazilian team won 39 medals, being 14 golds, throughout the competition that ran in the UAE.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262423","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\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}