Paralympic torch lands in Shanghai
Posted 1st September 2008 at 07:58 PM by NewsTracker
Shanghai - The Paralympic torch was relayed on Monday to Shanghai, the third stop of the flame's "modern China" route.
The relay started at 9:30am at the Shanghai Foreign Trade University as Zhao Jihong, a prolific Paralympic athlete, launched the 3km relay of 60 torchbearers.
Jihong, who is visually challenged, had won four golds, three silvers and one bronze in three Paralympics.
She set a world record of women's triple jump for the blind in the seventh edition of Paralympics.
Xu Lijia, a Beijing Olympic bronze medallist in sailing, ran in the sixth place.
Lijia won a bronze at Laser Radial, a class at which Europeans usually excel.
"I have my best two days this year. Last month, I won a medal in the Beijing Olympics and now I'm running as a torchbearer of Paralympics," said Lijia.
"My two dreams come true today. One is being part of the Olympics and the other is being part of the Paralympics," added Lijia.
Chinese swimmer Pang Jiaying lit the cauldron at 10:40am as the last torchbearer.
Jiaying, 23, notched up three Olympic medals, one silver and two bronzes, in the Olympics last month.
"It's a great honour for me to get the opportunity to carry the torch and light the cauldron," said Jiaying, who won four gold medals at the Doha Asian Games 2006.
Huang Wentao, another Paralympic athlete who is blind, passed the torch in the 56th place.
Wentao was the Paralympic triple jump champion in 1992 and he repeated the feat at the Sydney Paralympics.
"We just held a successful Olympics. Now our first Paralympics is coming. We the disabled persons expect the Paralympics to be a great success," said Wentao.
Twelve out of the 60 bearers were disabled persons in the relay.
The next destination for the "modern China" route is Qiangdao, a coastal city in Shandong province.
The Beijing Paralympic torch relay will cover 13.181 kilometers over nine days, passing 11 cities.
The Paralympic torch relay was carried out along two routes, namely the route of "modern China" and the route of "ancient China".
"Modern" route covers Shenzhen, Wuhan, Shanghai, Qingdao, Dalian and Beijing, while the "ancient" has Xi'an, Hohhot, Changsha, Nanjing and Luoyan. - BuaNews-Xinhua
The relay started at 9:30am at the Shanghai Foreign Trade University as Zhao Jihong, a prolific Paralympic athlete, launched the 3km relay of 60 torchbearers.
Jihong, who is visually challenged, had won four golds, three silvers and one bronze in three Paralympics.
She set a world record of women's triple jump for the blind in the seventh edition of Paralympics.
Xu Lijia, a Beijing Olympic bronze medallist in sailing, ran in the sixth place.
Lijia won a bronze at Laser Radial, a class at which Europeans usually excel.
"I have my best two days this year. Last month, I won a medal in the Beijing Olympics and now I'm running as a torchbearer of Paralympics," said Lijia.
"My two dreams come true today. One is being part of the Olympics and the other is being part of the Paralympics," added Lijia.
Chinese swimmer Pang Jiaying lit the cauldron at 10:40am as the last torchbearer.
Jiaying, 23, notched up three Olympic medals, one silver and two bronzes, in the Olympics last month.
"It's a great honour for me to get the opportunity to carry the torch and light the cauldron," said Jiaying, who won four gold medals at the Doha Asian Games 2006.
Huang Wentao, another Paralympic athlete who is blind, passed the torch in the 56th place.
Wentao was the Paralympic triple jump champion in 1992 and he repeated the feat at the Sydney Paralympics.
"We just held a successful Olympics. Now our first Paralympics is coming. We the disabled persons expect the Paralympics to be a great success," said Wentao.
Twelve out of the 60 bearers were disabled persons in the relay.
The next destination for the "modern China" route is Qiangdao, a coastal city in Shandong province.
The Beijing Paralympic torch relay will cover 13.181 kilometers over nine days, passing 11 cities.
The Paralympic torch relay was carried out along two routes, namely the route of "modern China" and the route of "ancient China".
"Modern" route covers Shenzhen, Wuhan, Shanghai, Qingdao, Dalian and Beijing, while the "ancient" has Xi'an, Hohhot, Changsha, Nanjing and Luoyan. - BuaNews-Xinhua
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