Canada’s Brent Lakatos earned his 12th career gold medal at the Para athletics world championships on Saturday, crossing the finish line in the men’s T53 800-metre final in an event record one minute 34.31 seconds on a sunny evening at Charléty Stadium in Paris.
It was a wire-to-wire victory for the 43-year-old from Dorval, Que., who captured silver in the men’s T54 1,500 on Friday after placing second in Tuesday’s T53 400.
Pongsakorn Paeyo closed the gap on Lakatos as they entered the final 100 metres but the latter held off his Thai opponent for his 18th world medal (four silver, two bronze).
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