Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Edgar Fuentes manages to get a silver medal

PARIS.— The Mexican athlete Edgar Fuentes managed to get the silver medal after the test of javelin throw.

In the early hours of this Friday, September 6, Fuentes I give it to her Mexico the thirteenth medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games and did so from the Stade de France.

In the competition, Edgar Fuentes He made his best throw of 30.53 metres, which helped him to finish second in the Olympic championship, behind Ivan Revenko, representing neutral Paralympic athletes.

𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗭𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗔! 🏟️🇲🇽🙌

Edgar Fuentes achieves 2nd place 🥈in the F54 javelin throw final, with a mark of 30.53 meters, at the Stade de France 🇫🇷 venue of the Paralympic Games #Paris2024.

🔹 This is Mexico’s 13th medal 🇲🇽 in the event. pic.twitter.com/BAJo7dhui5

— CONADE (@CONADE) September 6, 2024

Although the Mexican parathlete He finished above the Greek Manolis Stefanoudakis, who took the bronze medal.

Edgar Fuentes Ivan Revenko was 25 centimeters away from being able to bring our country another gold medal in Paris, as he climbed to the top of the podium with a time of 30.77 meters, but the Mexican was exactly 40 centimeters ahead of the third place finisher.

The Edgar Fuentes silver medal became the fifth of that color for Mexico in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, same ones in which national athletes have also managed to win three gold and five bronze medals.

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