IT WAS medals galore for Team SA on Thursday as the team bagged four more in Rio on their best day of the 2016 Paralympics.Two golds‚ a silver and a bronze joined the nine medals already harvested by the team, taking their tally to 13, with three days of competition left.After Ernst van Dyk (H5 hand cycle road race) and Reinhardt Hamman (F38 javelin) won gold in the afternoon‚ the evening’s track and field events saw Ndodomzi "Jonathan" Ntutu sprint to silver in the T12 100m and Dyan Buis bound to bronze in the T38 long jump.Ntutu ran 11.09 seconds for a season’s best time and Buis brought bronze back to the athletes’ village with a best of 6.58m.Beating Ntutu to gold was Cuba’s Leinier Savon Pineda in a time of 10.97."Actually I still feel I could have done a bit better‚ so maybe slightly disappointed but, hey‚ it’s always a pleasure to get a medal for my country‚" said Ntutu after the race."I obviously planned to peak here but my start ... it was the worst I’ve had for a while."Th...
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