Kobe (Japan), May 17 (Agency) Italian para athlete Carlo Fabio Marcello Calcagni won the Men’s 100m T72 Final with a new world record at the Para Athletics World Championships here on Friday. The frame-running athlete, 55, clocked 15.39 seconds at the Universiade Memorial Stadium in the central Japanese port city of Kobe. On the first day of the para athletics event, Calcagni shattered his own world record of 15.80s made in March. Brazil’s Vinicius Marques Krieger Quintinobra and Lithuania’s Deividas Podobajevas took silver and bronze, respectively, at the T72-class competition, also known as frame running, where athletes run with the support of a three-wheeled frame.
The 2024 World Para Athletics Championships, the 11th edition of its kind, runs until May 25 at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium, where over 1,000 athletes from 100 countries and regions are competing in 168 events. The Kobe championships, originally scheduled to take place in 2021 but postponed due to the COVID pandemic, are held in East Asia for the first time.