2024-09-13 06:30:06
At just 15 years old, Florencia Pérez became the youngest athlete to win a medal at the sporting event, which helps Chile climb positions in the medal table.
The table tennis player Florence Perez added a new medal for Team ParaChile in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games and she made history in the national sport by being the youngest person to achieve this.
At just 15 years old, the representative of Chile achieved the Bronze medal in the WS8 category of para table tennis, after falling in the semi-finals to the current world number 2 in the discipline, the Chinese Wenjuan Huang.
The Asian defeated Florencia Pérez by 3-0with partials of 11-5, 11-7 y 11-8. With this result, the Chilean achieved the first medal for the country in this specialty.
In addition, he added the Fourth medal for Chile at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Gamesafter the three bronze medals won by the legendary swimmer Alberto Abarza.
As for the historical record, these are all the medals that the national delegation has won at the Paralympic Games:
- Christian Valenzuela: oro (London 2012).
- Alberto Abarza: oro (Tokio 2020).
- Francisca Mardones: oro (Tokio 2020).
- Alberto Abarza: plata (Tokio 2020).
- Alberto Abarza: plata (Tokio 2020).
- Mariana Zuniga: plata (Tokio 2020).
- Alberto Abarza: bronze (Paris 2024).
- Alberto Abarza: bronze (Paris 2024).
- Alberto Abarza: bronze (Paris 2024).
- Florence Perez: bronze (Paris 2024).
- Katherinne Wollermann: bronze (Tokio 2020).
Following Florencia Pérez’s medal, this is how Chile is doing in the medal table of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
The medal table for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games is led by China with 74 gold medals and 170 in total, followed by Great Britain with 39 golds and 90 medals in total, and USAwhich completes the podium with 27 gold medals and 79 medals in total.
In the case of Chileafter the new medal that Florencia Pérez added, the national delegation is ranked 73rd with four bronze medals.