Canada's Bianca Borgella sprints to silver medal at Para athletics worlds

Canada's Bianca Borgella is climbing up the podium.

The Rockland, Ont., native won silver in the T13 200-metre visually impaired sprint at the Para athletics world championships on Wednesday in Paris, two days after grabbing bronze in the 100m.

Racing from Lane 5, Borgella started slowly but established a two-person race with Spain's Adi Iglesias over the final stretch. However, the 20-year-old Borgella could not quite close the gap.

"I knew I could have gone out harder at the start, but I made [up] for it at the end. I'm happy with it how it went. It was smooth, it was clean, I really pushed to get the medal that I got," Borgella said.

Iglesias' winning time was 24.86 seconds, just ahead of Borgella's personal-best 25 seconds. American Erin Kerkhoff took bronze at 25.58 seconds.

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Earlier, fellow Canadian Zachary Gingras won his T38 400m heat to advance to Thursday's final after crossing the finish line in 51.50 seconds.

Gingras, 21, said he hopes to speed up his second 100 metres in the medal race.

"Little things to change tomorrow, so there's definitely room for improvement," he said.

The Markham, Ont., native won bronze in the discipline at the Tokyo Paralympics with a then-Canadian record time of 50.85 seconds, which he has since lowered to 50.63 seconds.

Also, Anthony Bouchard of Quebec City qualified for the men's T52 400m final with a personal-best time of one minute 4.23 seconds.

Watch live coverage of the World Para Athletics Championships on CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports app and CBC Gem. Coverage from Paris continues Thursday at 3 a.m. ET with the Day 5 morning session.