Medvedev lauds ‘courageous’ Russian paralympians
September 11th, 2012 - 6:02 pm ICT by IANSMoscow, Sep 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has lauded the country’s “courageous” achievements at the London Paralympics.
Monumental efforts particularly in athletics, where 19 gold were won, and the pool, the scene of 13 Russian victories, propelled the country to runner-up in the table behind China.
Russia recorded 36 gold and 101 medals in total, easily eclipsing previous Paralympics.
“I’d like to congratulate from all of us those people who took part in the Paralympic Games, because our team performed brilliantly, significantly improving up the results of previous Olympics,” Medvedev said at his residence outside Moscow.
“It shows that our paralympians have a very powerful inner core, character, they are courageous and strong people who have proved in an uncompromising battle that in the absolute majority of sports they have no equals.”
Russia sent 182 competitors to the Paralympics, where they took part in 12 sporting disciplines.
The Chinese were long out of sight at the top of the medals table, racking up 95 gold, 71 silver and 65 bronze.
Hosts Britain came a close third with 34 gold.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
sd
- Putin envisions Russia as Paralympic powerhouse - Sep 11, 2012
- Russia to persuade Iran, North Korea for talks - Mar 28, 2012
- New government, new people: Medvedev - Oct 16, 2011
- Russians target 25 gold medals in London - Jul 10, 2012
- 'US to remain priority in Russian foreign policy' - Feb 22, 2012
- Putin confirms Medvedev to be PM, given election win - Dec 02, 2011
- Putin to host Russian Olympic team in Kremlin - Jul 21, 2012
- Russia's Tchebanika wins TT Paralympic gold - Sep 03, 2012
- Huge sum stolen from Russia's 2010 Olympic fund - Sep 10, 2012
- Russia introduces life sentence for drug dealers - Mar 03, 2012
Tags: absolute majority, china russia, core character, disciplines, dmitry medvedev, hosts, inner core, lauds, medals, moscow, olympics, out of sight, paralympians, paralympic games, paralympics, ria novosti, russian prime minister, russian victories, sep 11, uncompromising battle