El-Amin Chentouf of Morocco won gold in the men’s marathon T12 at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on Sunday morning to give his country its 11th medal as the two-week event draws to a close.
The 40-year-old from Rabat set a new Paralympic record of 2 hrs 21 min 43 sec at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium as he finished first ahead of Jaryd Clifford of Australia, who won silver in 2:26:09, and Japan’s Tadashi Horikoshi, who took bronze in 2:28:0.
The Tunisian duo of Hatem Nasrallah and Wajdi Boukhili finished in fourth and sixth, respectively, on the last day of the Games.
Chentouf also won three medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games — golds in the marathon T12 and 5,000m T12, and silver in the 5,000m T13. He also took part in the London Games four years earlier, though he failed to win any medals.
A long-distance powerhouse, Chentouf won three gold medals at the 2013 world championships in Lyon, in the men’s 10,000m T12, 5,000m T12 and marathon T12.
His latest victory means Morocco has now won four gold medals, four silver and three bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
