The Tunisian athlete Yassine Guenichi won the silver medal at the weight throwing (category F36) at the World Para-athletics Championships, organized in New Delhi (India). With a jet at 16.93 m, he made a new African record.
Guenichi distinguished himself in the final thanks to a 16.93 m throw, thus improving the best African performance in the discipline. He was only a few centimeters out of the Russian Vladimir Sviridov, crowned world champion with a jet at 17.01 m.
National pride
This medal confirms the regularity of the Tunisian athlete, already several times a medalist on the international scene. Its performance strengthens the place of Tunisia among the African nations that shine in para-athletics.
Born in 1990, Yassine Guenichi has established himself as one of the big names in Tunisian para-athletics. Specialist in weight throwing in the F36 category, he started his international career by chaining striking performance.
Both deaf-mute and physical deficient (lesions of the four members), Yassine Guenichi thus establishes a new feat when it was only discovered in 2017. It is, like the other athletes in its category, suffering from light unrest and trunk but severe legs. On the other hand, he is the only one to be also deaf-mute.
