Defending champion Irmgard Bensusan surprisingly missed a medal at the Para Athletics World Championships in Paris on Thursday (07/13/2023).
The 32-year-old from Leverkusen finished sixth in the T64 starting class in 13.12 seconds over 100 meters, 17 hundredths were missing from the bronze medal.
Bensusan won gold in the 100m and 200m in Dubai in 2019 and silver in both distances at the 2021 Paralympics in Tokyo.
Jong clearly the best
Fleur Jong from the Netherlands sprinted to the gold medal (12.47 seconds) – with a clear lead over Sara Andres Barrio from Spain (12.83) and Marissa Papaconstantinou (12.95) from Canada.
The German team still has six medals (2x gold, 2x silver, 2x bronze).
Bad luck for Sebastian Dietz
In the morning, shot putter Sebastian Dietz with 14.44 m missed out on precious metal in the F36 starting class in fourth place, and was more than a meter short of bronze.
Young hope Merle Menje finished fifth for the third time in the title fights in the Charlety Stadium, over 1500 meters in a racing wheelchair was 73 hundredths missing to bronze.
Toughest for the Paralympics
The Para Athletics World Championships (until July 17) is a kind of dress rehearsal for next year’s Paralympics (August 28 to September 8, 2024), which will also take place in the French capital.
At the previous World Championships in Dubai in 2019, the German team had won eleven precious metals in ninth place (7x gold, 2x silver, 2x bronze).