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SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 11<br />
Stedman eyes Tokyo Paralympic medals<br />
DETERMINED: William Stedman wants medals in both track<br />
and field at next year’s Tokyo Paralympics. <br />
• By Jacob Page<br />
HILLMORTON’S TRACK and<br />
field star William Stedman is<br />
eyeing medals in two disciplines<br />
next year at the Tokyo<br />
Paralympics.<br />
The 19-year-old earned<br />
bronze in the 400m T36 final<br />
at the World Para Athletics<br />
Championships in Dubai. He<br />
also added a fifth place finish in<br />
the long jump later the same day<br />
which made him eager for double<br />
delight in Japan.<br />
“Next year, Tokyo 2020,<br />
medals in the long jump and the<br />
400m is the goal.”<br />
The double Paralympic<br />
bronze medallist from three<br />
years ago in the 400m and<br />
800m, who has cerebral palsy,<br />
competed in the T36 100m,<br />
400m and long jump.<br />
He missed the final in the<br />
100m but said he tried to<br />
conserve energy in the heats of<br />
his favoured 400m event.<br />
“I went out for the first 200m<br />
at my normal pace, just trying<br />
to get out fast and practise for<br />
tomorrow,” said Will.<br />
“Then I had around 120m<br />
to go and saw that I was ahead<br />
so slowed down a bit, and then<br />
slowed even more for the last<br />
50m,” he said.<br />
Stedman crossed the line in<br />
54.28sec with the race won by<br />
Australian James Turner, in a<br />
new world record time<br />
Stedman.<br />
of 51.71sec. Silver went to<br />
Evgenii Shvetsov of Russia in<br />
53.18sec.<br />
“It’s the second fastest time I’ve<br />
ever run so I was pretty happy<br />
with that,” he said.<br />
“I didn’t quite run the first<br />
200m quite as quick as I should<br />
have, so that may have affected<br />
the time slightly, but overall I<br />
think I ran well and I’m really<br />
SPORT<br />
TEAM: Coach George Edwards with his main charge William<br />
happy with the bronze medal.”<br />
Stedman also competed in the<br />
long jump T36 final.<br />
He had a best jump of 5.39m<br />
and finished fifth overall in the<br />
competition.<br />
Stedman has found success<br />
with long-time coach George<br />
Edwards who is a Canterbury<br />
coach who he first met five years<br />
ago.<br />
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