He emphasized that in the history of the Latvian Paralympic movement there have never been so many gold medals as this year. The President noted that the entire society followed the performance of the athletes.
“You are all great Malachi – both those who came with medals and those who achieved very high-value results. Latvia is proud of you and Latvia wishes you all success in the future,” said Rinkēvičs.
LETA already wrote that the Paris Paralympic Games took place from August 28 to September 8, and approximately 4,400 para-athletes from 186 national Paralympic committees competed in them.
Latvian para-athlete Rihards Snikus won two gold medals in the Paralympic Games with the horse “King of the Dance”, Diāna Krūmiņa became the Paralympic champion in the javelin throw, and Aigars Apinis won the silver medal in the discus throw.
Latvia was represented at the Paris Paralympic Games by Apinis, Krūmiņa, Emīls Dzilna and Raivo Maksims (all – athletics), Oskars Gailišs (cycling), Yuris Semyonovs (swimming), Margita Kanopka (shooting) and Snikus (Paralympic dressage).
Paralight athlete Edgars Bergs had also won a place in the Games, but he refused to start in Paris due to health reasons.
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