The athlete Raoua Tlili (33) won yesterday the gold medal of throwing weight in her category (T41, small size), during the World Para-Athletics at the Charléty stadium in Paris. This is the first gold medal of the 2023 world athletics championships.
Raoua Tlili thus won his 5th title to the weight launch in 6 participations in the world championships.
She, who holds the world launch record in the T41 category, ahead of Uzbek Kubaro Khakimova (9.83 m) and Colombian Mayerli Buitrago (9.62 m). But with a 10.15 m throw, the Tunisian is far from her record at 10.55 m established during the Tokyo Games in August 2021.
Raoua Tlili (1.33 m) began her career at the age of 16 by participating in the 2006 world para-athletics championships in Assen. She had shone from her beginnings with a bronze medal won at the weight throwing, the only unure medal of her career in the discipline.
The queen of the launch has not finished with the 2023 world championships. Next Friday, she will try to win her 10th title at the disc launch this time, a discipline of which she also holds the world record.
