Morocco Strikes Gold: Four New Paralympic Medals, Including Two World Records

Ayoub Sadni won the gold medal in the 400m (T46-47 class), with a new world record (47.38). With this record, he beat the Brazilians Thomas Ruan de Moraes (47.87) and Petrucio Ferreira Dos Santos (48.04).

Zakariae Derhem, for his part, snatched the gold medal in the shot put event (F33 class), while Azeddine Nouiri won the silver in the same event, but in the F34 class.

On the podium of the shot put, we find the Moroccan Nouiri, who with 11.55 m, achieves the best African performance, behind the Jordanian Ahmed Hindi who broke the world record with a throw of 12.25 m. The Qatari Abdulrahman Abdulqadir Fiki comes in third place on the podium with 11.36 m.

As for the Moroccan blind football team, it won the bronze, beating the Chinese selection 4-0. It finishes second in its group, after a defeat against Argentina (1-2), a victory against Thailand (2-0) and a draw against Spain (1-1), before losing narrowly in the semi-finals (1-0) against the double defending champion, Brazil.

Morocco now has ten medals. Seven gold won by Abdeslam Hili, Zakariae Derhem and Ayoub Sadni, the silver of Fouzia El Kassioui, Yousra Karim, Mohamed Amguoun and Azeddine Nouiri. The bronze medal was won by Hayat El Garaa, Saida Amoudi and the national blind football team.