Wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos sets another world record in 100 metres
Canada wins 8 medals at the Daniela Jutzeler para-athletics meet
Canadian wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos won three gold medals — including another world record in the 100 metres — at the Daniela Jutzeler para-athletics meet Thursday in Arbon, Switzerland.
Lakatos, the gold medalist in the 100 at the Rio Paralympics, posted a time of 14.15 seconds to best his three-year-old world record of 14.17.
The 36-year-old from Dorval, Que., also won gold Thursday in the T53 200 and 400, including a personal best of 47.49 seconds in the latter.
This old dog CAN learn new tricks!!! So pleased with my 400m 😄
—@BrentLakThe three golds were part of an eight-medal day for Canada. Saskatoon's Ilana Dupont and Oakville, Ont.'s Austin Smeenk also won two medals.
Ilana Dupont won bronze in the women's T53 100 metres and in the 200. Jessica Frotten of Whitehorse finished just ahead of Dupont in the 200 for the silver. Smeenk won silver in both the men's T34 200 and bronze in the 100.