After 13 years of hard work and 4 Paralympic Games it was a special day for Ellen Keane as she saw off the challenge of New Zealand Paralympic legend, Sophie Pascoe to win the Paralympic Gold medal for Ireland.
Ellen had set a new personal best
time in the heats in the morning but she smashed through that mark again as she
clocked a time of 1:19:93 on her way to the top step of the podium.
As it had been in the morning session
it was to become a head to head between Ellen and Pascoe, with the Kiwi leading
the way at the turn. However, Keane dug deep over the last 50 metres and took
the lead holding off a final surge to touch the wall four hundredths of a
second ahead of the rival.
“Do you know I’m actually a bit in
disbelief cos my goggles filled up with water so I didn’t know where I was, I
didn’t know where Sophie was or the other girls beside me, to me it was just
sticking to the game plan that me and my coach had, just being long and strong
and that’s what I focussed on throughout the race and I just kinda gave it my
all the last 25 and to see number one, it wasn’t even the number one that I was
most excited about, it was more the time.”
Limerick’s rising swimming star,
Róisín Ní Riain, returned to a final for the second day in a row after making
her debut yesterday. Róisín showed real courage as she battled back into a
brilliant 6th place finish as she set her personal best time in the S13 100m
Backstroke, her third Personal Best on her fourth visit to the competition
pool.
“I knew if I got my race strategy
right, if I got it down a bit better, that I could definitely do it”
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Team
Ireland Finals Results Day 2
S13 100m Backstroke Final, Róisín Ní
Riain, 1:08.61 (PB)
SB8 100m Breaststroke Final, Ellen
Keane, 1:19.93 Gold Medal (PB)
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Team
Ireland Results Day 2
B 1000m Time Trial, Katie George
Dunlevy & Eve McCrystal, 10;09.044 (PB & National Record)
S13 100m Backstroke Heat, Róisín Ní
Riain, 1:09.23 (PB)
SB8 100m Breaststroke Heat, Ellen
Keane, 1:21.71 (PB)
C4 -5 1000m Time Trial, Ronan Grimes,
1:08.262 (PB)
Imagery from the Games will be
available FOC via www.sportsfile.com
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