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2024 Paris Paralympics closes with two world records set on final day

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The 2024 Paralympic Games has ended in Paris with two world records and a spectacular light show during a closing ceremony dominated by French electronic musicJean-Michel Jarre got the party underway at the Stade de France, coaxing dance moves from athletes, volunteers and spectators on a day when Morocco's Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi smashed the world record in the women’s marathon for runners with visual impairments and Nigeria's Folashade Oluwafemiayo broke her own world record in women’s para powerlifting.El Idrissi ran the 42-kilometre course in 2 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds, beating the previous record from Japan’s Misato Michishita in Hofu City in December 2020 by nearly six minutes."I wasn't running for a time, only for a medal," the 29-year-old Moroccan said.Defending champion Oluwafemiayo twice bettered her own world record in women's para powerlifting by bench-pressing 167 kilogrammes above her chest for another gold in the final for women over 86kg.The 39-year-old Oluwafemiayo beat her previous best mark from Tbilisi in Georgia in June by one kilo by lifting 166kg in round three.

Oluwafemiayo then delighted spectators at La Chapelle Arena by adding another kilo to the record in a powerlift.After the marathons, spectators paid tribute to Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who died Thursday after she was set on fire in what police said was an attack by her partner.Cheptegei ran the marathon at the Paris Olympics last month, and an image of her celebrating was shown on a large screen near the finish line Sunday as the crowd was asked to observe a minute's applause in her memory.The announcer referred to Cheptegei as a "victim of femicide."China claimed almost twice as many gold medals – 94 to Britain's 49

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Canadian swimmer Nicholas Bennett won his second gold medal of the Paris Paralympics on Wednesday in the men's SM14 200-metre individual medley.

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