Styrian in 13th place
Lässer clearly misses out on the podium in the road race
Cyclist Franz-Josef Lässer leaves the Paralympic Summer Games without a medal. He also failed to make it onto the podium at his fourth start in Paris, finishing 13th in the C4-5 road race on Friday.
After almost 100 km in the east of the French capital, the 23-year-old was more than 13 minutes off the podium. Victory went to the Ukrainian Yehor Dementjew. Lässer's best result is fourth place in the track bike pursuit.
"The first lap was still great and in the second I caught the perfect group behind the front runners. But then I got massive stomach problems and from the third lap onwards the race was over for me," explained Lässer, who nevertheless left Paris in a positive mood. "In general, I'm really happy. But the density is enormous, unfortunately it wasn't enough for a medal. Now it's time to keep training hard for the next Paralympics."
36 hundredths short of the final
Para-canoeist Markus "Mendy" Swoboda missed out on a direct place in the final in the kayak single over 200 m in the KL2 class, finishing second in his preliminary heat by just 36/100 of a second. The 34-year-old must finish at least third out of five participants. In the Va'a single (VL3 class), Swoboda only came sixth in his heat and therefore last, but also qualified for the semi-finals. This will take place on Sunday (10.56 am).
Para-swimmer Andreas Ernhofer did not make it into the final in the 50 m crawl (S4 class). After the heats, the 27-year-old Viennese was tenth overall, with only the top eight making it into the medal rounds.
This article has been automatically translated,
read the original article here.
Kommentare
Liebe Leserin, lieber Leser,
die Kommentarfunktion steht Ihnen ab 6 Uhr wieder wie gewohnt zur Verfügung.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
das krone.at-Team
User-Beiträge geben nicht notwendigerweise die Meinung des Betreibers/der Redaktion bzw. von Krone Multimedia (KMM) wieder. In diesem Sinne distanziert sich die Redaktion/der Betreiber von den Inhalten in diesem Diskussionsforum. KMM behält sich insbesondere vor, gegen geltendes Recht verstoßende, den guten Sitten oder der Netiquette widersprechende bzw. dem Ansehen von KMM zuwiderlaufende Beiträge zu löschen, diesbezüglichen Schadenersatz gegenüber dem betreffenden User geltend zu machen, die Nutzer-Daten zu Zwecken der Rechtsverfolgung zu verwenden und strafrechtlich relevante Beiträge zur Anzeige zu bringen (siehe auch AGB). Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren.