China, third country to win more than 100 gold medals in Paralympics
Q. Which nations have achieved a century of Gold medals at a single Paralympics?- Published on 19 Sep 16a. United States
b. Britain
c. China
d. All of the above
ANSWER: All of the above
China became only the third country in the world to win more than 100 gold medals at a single edition of the Paralympic Games.
- China ended the games with 105 gold, 81 silver and 51 bronze medals
- United States and Britain are the only other nations to in a century of gold medals in a single Paralympics
- Both US and UK won their century tally of medals at the 1984 NY games where US claimed 136 victories and Britain 107
- 5 of China's track and field gold medals on 17th Sept - the penultimate day of competition - were achieved with world record performances.
- The records were set by Zheng Jin, Mi Na, Zhou Hongzhuan, Zhou Xia
- In the men's 4x400m relay T53/54, China's Cui Yanfeng, Liu Yang, Li Huzhao and Liu Chengming clocked 3 minutes 3.12 seconds to eclipse their own previous world record of 3:04.77.
- Wu Guoshan recorded his longest throw of the year to win the men's shot put F57.
- China’s Zhang Bian and Gu Gai beat Serbia's Borislava Peric-Rankovic and Nada Matic in TT
- Zhang Li secured her third gold medal here by winning the 100m freestyle S5 final.
