Table tennis player Péter Pálos won a gold medal in the S11 category at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday. The paraswimmer Illés Fanni also won a gold medal, so the Hungarian team already won three gold medals in Tokyo.
The Hungarian table tennis player who won in London five years ago and placed third in Rio de Janeiro - who was born with a mild intellectual disability - beat South Korea's Kim Chang Gi 3-1 on Wednesday, and then defeated Japan's Kato Koja in the group stage on Thursday.
In Friday's quarterfinals, his opponent was another domestic player, Takasi Aszano , who he proved to be better than by 3-2, losing the first two sets. For the final on Saturday, he won 3-2 against the Frenchman Lucas Créange, also in a fierce fight, and in the final on Sunday he also won in five sets against the silver medalist of the previous Paralympics, the Australian Samuel Philip von Einem.
BVSC-Zugló player Pálos, who will celebrate his 36th birthday in two days, won the fifth medal, the second gold, of the Hungarian delegation in Tokyo.
The third gold medal Illés Fanni , who confidently won first place in the S4 category of the 100-meter breaststroke. The world and European champion paraswimmer Illés Fanni was the biggest favorite in the 100-meter breaststroke, after reaching the final with the best time. Which he then won as a contender, thus obtaining the Hungarian Paralympic team's third gold medal in Tokyo.
Congratulations to the winners, go Hungarians!
Source: MTI/NSO
Photomontage: MTI/NSO
