Paralympians Ran The 1500m Faster Than Runners At The Rio Olympics Final

At the Paralympics Foud Baka finished a 1500-meter race in just 3 minutes and 49.59 seconds in Rio. His time was so good that he would have beaten Matthew Centrowitz Jr. of the U.S. for the Olympic gold medal if he had competed. Other athletes had great showings in the 1500-meter race as with Henry Kirwa of Kenya (3:49.59), silver medalist Tamiru Demisse of Ethiopia (3:48.59) and gold medalist Abdellatif Baka (3:48.29).