On Saturday, the most titled Belarusian Paralympian took part in the 400m freestyle in the S13 class, in which he is the world record holder. Bokiy was second for three quarters of the final heat, but he added powerfully in the last stretch and eventually touched the board first with a time of 3:58.37. 58.37 sec. Frenchmen Alex Portal and Kilian Portal followed our athlete, and another Belarusian Evgeny Kovalenok closed the top eight. Thus, Bokiy became a 19-time Paralympic champion, and the victory in Paris is already the third for him after his successes in the 100m butterfly and 100m backstroke.
Earlier in the evening program on August 31, the final swim of the 100m backstroke in the S12 class took place. Maksim Vashkevich and Dmitry Soley were one step away from the top three prize-winners: the Belarusians showed the same result of 1 min. 03,12 sec. and shared the fourth place. The victory with the world record was won by Briton Stephen Clegg, the second finisher was Dmitry Soley's brother Roman Soley, who performs for Azerbaijan.
Tomorrow, Belarusian swimmers will not be represented in the pool of the “Paris-La-Defense Arena”, and on Monday, Igor Bokiy, Dmitry Solei and Yegor Shchelkanov will start the preliminary heats of the fifty-meter freestyle.
