Australia has continued its Paralympic dominance of the men’s S9 100m freestyle, thanks to the emergence of Timothy Disken winning the gold medal.
Disken dominated the last 20 metres of the race to take his first gold of the meet, ahead of teammate Brenden Hall in silver for another Aussie one, two in the pool.
A breaststroker nine months ago, Disken certainly looks the goods as a freestyle swimmer, thanks to some intensive training from Coach Yuriy Vdovychenko at the AIS.
“The last 35 stung a bit but I just put my head down and tried to focus on myself,” said Disken.
“It’s fantastic to go one two, especially for Junior (Brenden Hall) to go his fastest time since world champs. We both pushed each other to the limit and it’s amazing to go one two.”
Disken’s winning time of 56.23 would have finished second behind Matthew Cowdrey’s winning time in London (55.84).
The 19-year-old Melburnian won bronze in the 200m individual medley on Monday (AEST).
