Orla Comerford secures second gold medal with 200m win at World Para Athletics Championships
Michael Bolton
Irish sprinter Orla Comeford has become a double world champion at the World Para Athletics Championships.
The 28-year-old from Dublin won the T-13 200 metres final in a time of 24.7-1 seconds.
Rayanne Soares da Silva was second in 25.24 while America’s Kym Crosby was third in 25.64.
It comes just two days after she also claimed gold in the 100-metres event in New Dehli.
It was the same top three, in the same order, as Sunday’s 100m race produced as Comerford continued her strongest ever season on the track.
Comerford won the bronze medal in the 100m at last September’s Paralympic Games in Paris.
Team Ireland has now bagged three medals with Greta Streimikyte also winning gold in the 1500m T13 final.
