Netherlands’s Cyclist Larissa Klaassen won the first Paralympic gold medal of her career by breaking a Paralympic record during the Games at Izu Velodrome in Tokyo.
Larissa Klaassen jumped up and down with joy with her pilot Imke Brommer after receiving her gold medal for the women’s B 1,000m time trial.
This is Klaassen’s first Paralympic gold medal, having already won a silver medal five years ago at Rio 2016 in the same event and then pilot partner Haliegh Dolman.
“I feel that it is possible. I have a very nice pilot and we will just cycle hard,” the 27-year-old Dutch athlete told nhnieuws.com last June.
“We had a good start and were good out of the gate, but everything went a bit wobbly and we didn’t see anything, she (Brommer) also didn’t. It was not clean but the feeling was that we were going fast, really fast. In the end everything hurt and you don’t know the time but the feeling is that it’s OK,” she said after the competition.
