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Gold medal and world record for Mark Millier in the Paralympic Games

Second Olympic gold for Israel in Tokyo.

Billion, considered one of the most prominent swimmers in the world, stopped the clock at 2: 29.01 minutes in the 200m medley

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Friday, 27 August 2021, 13:24 Updated: 13:30

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An impressive achievement for Paralympic swimmer Mark Mellier, who today (Friday) won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics while breaking the world record in the 200-meter individual medley with a disability level of S7.

Maliar was born with cerebral palsy and trains at the ILAN pool in Kiryat Haim. He is considered one of the top Paralympic swimmers in the world and last year won the world championship in the 400m individual medley, breaking the world record.

Maliar stopped the clock at 2: 29.01 minutes , A significant improvement to the previous record of 2: 30.72 minutes and set by the Ukrainian Yevgeny Bogodaiko in Rio de Janeiro 2016. Today he overtook Andrei Trosov (Ukraine) who set 2: 29.99 minutes and Carlos Sarata (Colombia) who stopped the clock at 2: 31.58 minute.

this is the second gold medal of the games Hfralimfiim delegation in Tokyo, after Iyad Shelby won the 100-meter win back the degree of disability S1.

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Another achievement for the Israeli delegation.

Billionaire (Photo: GettyImages, Adam Pretty)

A statement from Culture and Sports Minister Hili Trooper read: "A tremendous world record for Mark Millier! Mark won a huge gold medal with an amazing ointment and once again fills us all with a great sense of pride. Another gold medal for Israel and another victory of unique talent and great spirit."

CPA Ehud Ratzabi, Chairman of the ILAN Association: "Mark has once again proved that he is a world champion.

He is an example and role model for determination and excellence.

"Mark has brought us a tremendous achievement for him, for his family, for the ILAN organization and for the State of Israel.

We are proud of him and love him very much."

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