Jerusa Geber became the most decorated Brazilian at the World Para Athletics Championships as she won the women\u2019s 200m T11 gold medal on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the last day of New Delhi 2025 action at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Geber claimed her 13th World Championship medal, one more than the dozen won by Brazil\u2019s now second best, Terezinha Guilhermina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Paralympic champion, running with guide Gabriel dos Santos, came into the final 100m stretch with China\u2019s Liu Yiming right behind her but then switched gears to take the victory in 24.88, 1.34 seconds ahead of Liu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Geber, who equalled her compatriot\u2019s tally as she retained her 100m T11 crown on Wednesday, pulled off a season\u2019s best time to claim her seventh world title when she needed it the most, leaving New Delhi with two gold medals in two events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dWorld Championships have concluded and I\u2019ve reached my two goals,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Firstly, to win the 100m for the fourth time and secondly, to become the (Brazilian) athlete with the most medals at the World Para Athletics Championships.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brazil\u2019s 400m champion Thalita Simplicio claimed bronze as the South American Para athletics powerhouse secured the victory in the overall medal standings on 44 medals including 15 golds, with China in second place on 13 gold medals, despite having won more \u2013 52 \u2013 medals in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That the competitions in New Delhi are over does not mean holiday time on Copacabana for the 43-year-old multitalented, who will go to Rio de Janeiro for a different reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen I return to Brazil I will be travelling to another World Championships,\u201d said Geber, who will pedal for more glory at the 2025 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships at Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Velodrome, in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dMy pilot is already there waiting for me. I\u2019m super happy, I can\u2019t stop. I always want more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kiara Rodriguez of Ecuador finished off another successful World Championship campaign with her third gold medal in three events in New Delhi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 22-year-old, who had won the women\u2019s 100m and long jump T47 titles, won Sunday\u2019s 200m T47 final with a new world record time. Finishing in 24.34, she knocked three hundredths of a second off her own mark set in Friday\u2019s heats, beating runner-up Maria Clara Augusto of Brazil by 0.43 of a second as New Zealand\u2019s Anna Grimaldi claimed bronze. The previous world record had been set by Cuba\u2019s Yunidis Castillo at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t expect this. It\u2019s my first 200m in the World Championships; I hadn\u2019t run the 200m in more than six years. I\u2019m really happy and thrilled with this result,\u201d said the three-time 100m world champion, who had never been on a global 200m podium before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dI\u2019ll leave India very happy, it\u2019s been incredible. I\u2019ve won three gold medals, I\u2019ve broken the 200m world record twice, which hasn\u2019t happened for 13 years. I can\u2019t put it into words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran claimed third place in the medal standings with nine gold medals, Netherlands in fourth place on eight, much thanks to two triumphs on Sunday, through Lara Baars, who won the women\u2019s shot put F40 with a world record throw of 9.77, and Marlene van Gansewinkel, who closed the World Championships with a women\u2019s 200m T64 title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The defending world champion van Gansewinkel made no mistake in the 200m final, where she got a strong start and kept increasing her advantage until the finish line. She retained her title with a season\u2019s best time of 26.16, beating runner-up Marissa Papaconstantinou of Canada by 0.91 of a second to claim her tenth World Championships medal and second gold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dIt feels very good, it\u2019s been a crazy year,\u201d the Dutch 30-year-old said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dI moved countries, to a new coach, a long jump coach, but I had my injury and I couldn\u2019t do the long jump so I had to go to sprint.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Half of her medals from World Championships and Paralympic Games have come in the long jump events. In New Delhi, however, she could not compete in the long jump due to a problem with her Achilles, shifting focus to the sprints where she added the 200m gold medal to her 100m T64 silver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dI\u2019m really happy I can still show that I\u2019m a sprinter, although not everything went as smoothly as I hoped,\u201d the two-time Paralympic champion said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dWhether it is just sprint or the long jump, I will still be doing athletics because it\u2019s way too much fun.\u201d
Also with double gold medals on the ninth day of competition, South Africa claimed their only world titles in New Delhi on Sunday as Simone Kruger triumphed for the third time in the women\u2019s discus throw F38 and Puseletso Michael Mabote won a narrow men\u2019s 100m T63 final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a strong push in the last 30m, Mabote edged leader Partin Muhlisin of Indonesia to claim the victory in 12.03, improving the Championship Record he set in the heats by three hundredths of a second. Muhlisin won the silver medal in 12.26, two hundredths of a second ahead of Denmark\u2019s bronze medallist Daniel Wagner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting on that one,\u201d said the 20-year-old winner, who had to settle for silver at last year\u2019s World Championships in Kobe, Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dI don\u2019t know how to describe it, I\u2019m pretty sure my family is ecstatic at the moment. I\u2019m just amazed at my potential, I have so much more growth and so much to give to the sport. I\u2019m only 20 years old, I will be in this game for at least another ten years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n