Canadian wheelchair racer Michelle Stilwell claimed her second gold medal at the Rio Paralympics on Saturday, winning the women's 100-metre event.
The 42-year-old from Parksville, B.C., beat American Kelly Morgan and Belgium's Marieke Vervoort to take top spot in 19.42 seconds, which is a new Paralympic record.
MEDAL ALERT | #CAN Michelle Stilwell wins #gold in Women's 100m final with new Paralympic record of 19.42 #Rio2016 https://t.co/p6F2QdfMLR
— @CBCOlympics
Stilwell, who also holds the world record in the 100, now has six career Paralympic gold medals. She won her first race of the Games a week ago in the 400.
Stilwell is only the second female Paralympian to have won gold in two separate summer sports, having been part of Canada's gold-medal winning wheelchair basketball team in Sydney. Complications to her spinal cord injury forced her to switch to track after the Games in 2000.
Canada's Michelle Stilwell captures 2nd Paralympic gold in Rio
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