Paralympics: Sprinter Felix Streng wins gold

Sprinter Felix Strict has won the third German gold medal at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

The 26-year-old won over 100 m in 10.76 seconds two hundredths of the Costa Rican Sherman Isidro Guity Guity and celebrated in the start class T64 the greatest success of his career. World recorder Johannes Floors was at 10.79 seconds at the same time with the British Jannie Peacock Bronze.

That's an incredible value. I put so much put in this year. I'm so happy, Streng said in the zdf.

Strict had already won over 100 m bronze in 2016, he is also over the 200 m on Saturday hot gold candidate. For Floors it is the first single medal at Paralympics, over which 400 m is the double world champion and world recorder on Friday as a pota pre-race. Together with Markus Rehm and David Behre, the duo won in Rio Gold in the 4x100 m season.

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Meanwhile, Leon Schäfer brought his second medal of the games in the start class T63. After silver in his paraded discipline long jump, the 24-year-old won over 100 m bronze. At a time of 12.22 seconds, he remained seven hundredths of his previous best performance, Winner Anton Prochorov (Russian Paralympic Committee) was exactly two tenths faster.