GOLD DURAND Omara CUB - Cuba<br />SILVER BOUSAID Somaya TUN - Tunisia<br />BRONZE DIMOGLOU Alexandra GRE - Greece<br /><br />LONDON, September 3, 2012<br />Omara DURAND (CUB) took the first gold medal of the Monday session when the visually impaired sprinter, running in the outside in lane eight, won the T13 women's 400m with a Paralympic record 55.12.DURAND was ahead from her first few strides and everyone else was left to follow.<br /><br />"It was hard as I was placed in lane number eight and I had my two rivals on both sides. It was complicated for me to act as the hare." Omara DURAND (CUB)<br /><br />For further information, please visit http://www.paralympic.org. To watch live action and videos on demand of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and subscribe to ParalympicSport TV, please go to www.youtube.com/ParalympicSportTV http://www.youtube.com/ParalympicSportTV<br />Also, you may follow the Paralympic Movement on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ParalympicGames or on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/paralympic.
