A huge achievement for Paralympic swimmer Ami Daddown, who tonight (Thursday) won the gold medal in the 50-meter freestyle, at the world championships held in Madeira, Portugal, while breaking the world record.
Dadon, who competes in the 4th degree of disability, advanced to the final stage, after being ranked second in the qualifiers, swam great from the first moment and touched the wall after 36.25 seconds, while breaking the world record set in the qualifiers by New Zealander Cameron Lucley, who stood at 36.75 seconds.
Lucley himself, finished in the final in second place, in a time of 36.71 seconds, when the podium picture was completed by the Japanese Toiki Suzuki with 38.99 seconds.
For Daddown, this is the second gold medal in the championship, having also done so in the 150 individual medley and the fourth medal in the delegation, on the opening day, Veronica Girenko achieved the silver medal in the 50m breaststroke and Mark Mellier won the bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke.
The talented swimmer was born 21 years ago at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, in the 29th week of his beautiful mother's pregnancy, by caesarean section, just two minutes after his twin sister Liam. Oxygen to his brain and therefore it is estimated that as a result he suffered from cerebral palsy.
At the Paralympic Games in Tokyo last summer, Dadon finished this ointment with the silver medal, when he also won the gold medals in the 50 and 200 meters freestyle.
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