James Turner's medal was one of three won by Australia on day six of the Paralympic Games in Paris.
Sprinter James Turner has revealed how a debilitating bout of glandular fever nearly derailed his gold medal dream after he smashed his own world record to successfully defend his T36 400m crown. Turner blitzed the field at the Stade de France on Tuesday, bettering his previous 51.71 world record which he set in Dubai five years ago. The 25-year-old, who won the same race in Tokyo in 2021, finished with a time of 51.54.
I'd have waves of exhaustion, where I could barely walk and I was stumbling around, in a bit of delirium. "I obviously wasn't able to train and as soon as I’d start training, I'd get worse, so we had to be really careful and come back really slowly. "I didn't think I'd be able to break a world record here today. I just thought maybe if I do everything right, I can scrape across the line first.
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