On Friday, August 27, Ukrainian Anna Stetsenko won a gold medal in the 400m freestyle swimming.
UA reports this citing the paralympic.org.
The Ukrainian swam the distance in 4 minutes 23.92 seconds, bypassing the Italian athlete Carlotta Gilli and Australian Katya Dedekind, who won silver and bronze medals respectively.
In addition to the 400-meter freestyle, Stetsenko will also compete for medals in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter backstroke and 200-meter backstroke swimming at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
To remind, today powerlifter Maryana Shevchuk won a gold medal, Yulia Pavlenko became the third in the long jump, Vladislav Bilyi won the silver medal in javelin throwing.
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