{"id":21803,"date":"2024-08-30T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/paralympics-2024-swimmer-poppy-maskill-wins-britains-first-gold-before-tully-kearney-adds-a-second\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:58:11","slug":"paralympics-2024-swimmer-poppy-maskill-wins-britains-first-gold-before-tully-kearney-adds-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/paralympics-2024-swimmer-poppy-maskill-wins-britains-first-gold-before-tully-kearney-adds-a-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympics 2024: Swimmer Poppy Maskill wins Britain&#8217;s first gold before Tully Kearney adds a second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maskill&#8217;s success came moments after Ellard took silver in the men&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old from Suffolk led at halfway with Alexander Hillhouse down in fourth, but the 20-year-old Dane came through in the second part of the race in a new Paralympic record of 54.61 seconds, with the Briton clocking 54.86.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I would be happy with silver but I am,&#8221; said Ellard. &#8220;It gives me more confidence for my 200m freestyle, which is my main event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ellard was being interviewed by the media as Maskill won her gold and he was thrilled to see his team-mate achieve glory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s big for the team and a huge personal best for Poppy as well,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know she wants to try to get the world record in the 100m backstroke later in the programme, but this is a big bonus for her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cvg38wy9kmxo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maskill&#8217;s success came moments after Ellard took silver in the men&#8217;s race. The 18-year-old from Suffolk led at halfway with Alexander Hillhouse down in fourth, but the 20-year-old Dane came through in the second part of the race in a new Paralympic record of 54.61 seconds, with the Briton clocking 54.86. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21805,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21803\/revisions\/21805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}