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William Stedman has won the silver medal in the T36 400m final at the Para Athletics World Championships.
Kiwi runner William Stedman has gone one better than 2019 when winning a silver medal in the 400 metre T36 final at the Para Athletics World Championships.
Stedman, who won bronze in the same event four years ago, trailed home Australian James Turner in Paris on Tuesday night (NZT).
The Christchurch athlete made a fast start – running from lane three – in the final but when the field ran into the home straight, it was the Australian with a sizeable lead.
Turner, the Paralympic champion from Tokyo, finished in a time of 52.26 seconds, ahead of Stedman, in 53.62 and the bronze medal winner Alexis Sebastian Chavez, representing Argentina, who ran home in 54.57.
Stedman also finished third in the same event at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.
Tuesday’s result was Stedman’s best finish in the 400m at a world championship but he previously won silver in the T36 800m at the 2017 event.
Stedman, who also competes in the long jump and dramatically won silver after being sixth going into his final leap in Tokyo, will be back in action in that discipline at 5.25am on Thursday (NZT).
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