Lauren Parker is a Paralympic gold medallist after dominating the field in the women's PTWC para-triathlon, three years after missing out on gold by just 1 second.
Lauren Parker was overcome with emotion when she crossed the line. Lauren Parker beat defending para-triathlon PTWC champion Kendall Gretsch by 1 minute and 23 seconds to gold.Parker will also compete in the hand cycle road race and individual time trial later in the Games.Share article
Three years after being pipped to a gold medal in Tokyo by about a second by American Kendall Gretsch, Parker blew the entire field away with a dominant performance to clinch a golden redemption.None of that mattered for Parker. What's a training crash, however "nightmare-like", compared to the U-turn her life went through in 2017, when she crashed into a guardrail at 45 kilometres per hour?Lauren Parker claimed gold in the para-triathlon women's PTWC.Because once the racing got underway in Paris, she proved that she had waited long enough."I've been through a lot in the last three years and it just sums up everything I've been through and worked hard towards.
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