Yassine Ouhdadi, 1,500 world runner-up

The Spanish athlete Yassine Ouhdadi The silver medal in 1,500 meters, class T13 visually impairedin Paralympic athletics world championships held at Charlèty in Paris (France), which was his second medal in the championship after the gold in the 5,000.

Ouhdadi, 28, made a great comeback in the last 300 meters of the race, where, thanks to a change of pace in the last corner, he was able to overtake his opponents on the outside, going from sixth place to second.

Victory went to Tunisian Rouay Jebabli, who stopped the clock in 4:00.23, sixty-eight hundredths less than Yassine Ouhdadi, who crossed the finish line in 4:00.91. The bronze was awarded to Algerian Abdellatif Baka with 4:01.13.

This silver medal is the second won by Yassine Ouhdadi at the World Cup in Paris. The first was gold in the 5,000 meters, also in the T13 category.

Yassine Ouhdadi, who was born with inoperable cataracts in both eyes, is completely blind on the left and partially blind on the right.

He came to Spain from Morocco when he was six years old with his parents and eight siblings and they settled in the Tarragona town of Tortosa, where his family opened a grocery store.

He attended school until the age of fifteen but had to leave it to help at home, although he did not understand much because he had difficulty reading the papers easily.

Athletics came into his life at the end of 2014. First as another leisure activity, his training in the mountains and on the asphalt. His talent did not go unnoticed by the Spanish Paralympic Committee, which recruited him to be part of the national team, where he was declared world runner-up in 2019 in Dubai and Paralympic champion in Tokyo 2020.