Three Cypriot athletes will go to Paris for the Paralympic Games. Titled swimmer Carolina Pelendritu, weightlifter Maria Markou and track and field athlete Viktoras Pentaras (long jump) will depart from the island.
Soon, on August 28, the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games will take place in Paris. This will not be a performance at the stadium, but a parade through the very center of the city: from the Champs Elysees to the Place de la Concorde. Organizers want to highlight the achievements of the Paralympic athletes in the opening program by showing the procession to the entire city.
Carolina Pelendritu already has extensive experience in the Paralympic Games. She competed in five of them and won six medals: one gold in Athens in 2004, one gold and one bronze in Beijing in 2008, one silver in London in 2012, one gold and one bronze in Tokyo in 2021.
At her sixth Paralympic Games, Caroline will compete in the S11 category - 50m freestyle, for which she took bronze in Tokyo, and in the SB11 category - 100m breaststroke, which brought the swimmer gold in Tokyo.
Weightlifter Maria Markou will compete at the Paralympic Games for the second time in her career, while track and field athlete Viktoras Pentaras will make her debut.
In addition to Caroline Pelendritou's victories, Cyprus has won two more medals at the Paralympic Games throughout its history of participation. Short-distance runner Andonis Aresti took silver twice in Beijing in 2008.
The text was prepared based on materials from Cyprus Mail
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