GOLD PAUTOVA Elena RUS Russian Federation SILVER CONGOST Elena ESP<br />Spain BRONZE MINETTI Annalisa ITA Italy LONDON, September 4 Elena<br />PAUTOVA (RUS) demonstrated her country's strength in women's middle<br />distance running as she sped away from Elena CONGOST (ESP) with 350m to<br />go to win the T12 women's 1500m in 4:37.65, uncorking a last lap of<br />1:10.24. The Spaniard hung on to finish second in 4:43.53, while<br />Annalisa MINETTI (ITA) took the bronze medal and, as a more severly<br />impaired athlete, also clocked a T11 world record of 4:48.88. "It's not<br />my first victory. The first one was eight years ago. I thought I would<br />not feel the fame of being Paralympic champion again, but it was my<br />fate." - Elena PAUTOVA. For further information, please visit<br />http://www.paralympic.org. To watch live action and videos on demand of<br />the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and subscribe to ParalympicSport.TV,<br />please go to www.youtube.com/ParalympicSportTV. Also, you may follow<br />the Paralympic Movement on Facebook at<br />http://www.facebook.com/ParalympicGames or on Twitter at<br />http://www.twitter.com/paralympic.
