Ukraine won silver and bronze medals at the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo

Photo: Facebook of the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine

The Ukrainian Paralympians won two more medals on Friday, August 27. Yulia Pavlenko became the third in long jump, Vladyslav Bilyi won silver medal in javelin throwing.

UA reports this with reference to the Facebook of the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine.

Yulia Pavlenko showed her best result in the third attempt, jumping a distance of 4.86 m. The champion of the Games in this discipline was Silvana Costa de Oliveira, athlete from Uzbekistan Asila Mirzayorova won the silver medal.

Vladyslav Bilyi won the second place in the javelin competition with a result of 55.34 m. Another Ukrainian, Oleksandr Doroshenko, finished the fifth with a result of 54.07 m. Athletes from Colombia Jose Gregorio Lemos Rivas and Luis Fernando Lucumi Villegas won gold and bronze medals.

To remind, on the first day of the Paralympic Games, Ukrainian athletes won 1 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze medal.

To remind, on August 25 Yelizaveta Mereshko became the first on the distance of 50 meters in freestyle swimming. For Mereshko, this is the fifth “gold” in her career. In 2016, at the Games in Rio de Janeiro, she won the distances of 50, 100, 400 meters in freestyle and 100 meters in backstroke swimming.

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