The Costa Rican athlete Sherman Guity-Guilty won first place in the world athletics ranking at the Para Athletics Grand Prix that took place this weekend in Monterrey, Mexico.

Guity achieved a record of 21.70 seconds in the 200-meter race in the T64 category, which refers to athletes who compete in speed and have a leg amputation.

Guity, who practically competed against himself in the Mexican international event. He is a gold medalist and Paralympic record holder since the Tokyo 2020 Games, with a time of 21.43 seconds, according to the Sports Institute.

Currently, Guity is in second place worldwide, surpassed by the U.S. athlete Richard Browne, who holds the record of 21.27 seconds. since 2015.

According to the Institute, Guity won two times, before this 200 meters race. He also placed first in a previous 100-meter competition with a time of 11.00 seconds. At the Tokyo Olympics, in Japan in 2020, Guity managed to win the silver medal in the 100-meter race.

In May, Guity won a gold medal in the Paralympic Grand Prix in Nodwill, Switzerland.

The Para Athletics Grand Prix was organized by the World Para Athletics, currently under the governance of the International Paralympic Committee, which acts as the international federation for the sport and is based in Bonn, Germany.

According to the World Para Athletics, since 2013 an annual Grand Prix season has taken place featuring several meetings around the world. Athletes compete according to their sport-specific classification in each event. Some compete in wheelchairs and some with prostheses, while vision-impaired athletes are supported by a sighted guide. 

To further increase the number of athletes with high support needs competing in the sport, the discipline of RaceRunning was included in World Para Athletics events from the start of 2018. Para-athletics is now practiced internationally by athletes in more than 130 countries.

 

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