Fico hosts Slovak Paralympic winners

PRIME Minister Robert Fico received seven Slovak medal winners from the XIII Paralympic Games in Beijing on September 30.

Slovak paralympic winners awaiting PM Fico.Slovak paralympic winners awaiting PM Fico. (Source: SITA)

PRIME Minister Robert Fico received seven Slovak medal winners from the XIII Paralympic Games in Beijing on September 30.

In his speech for the occasion, he emphasised that the Paralympic team had contributed to spreading Slovakia’s good name in the world and praised the team’s achievements, which include winning two gold, three silver, and one bronze medal, the SITA newswire wrote.

Veronika Vadovičová, who won gold in shooting, was the first athlete to score a medal at this year’s Games. Ján Riapoš and Rastislav Revúcky won gold in the wheelchair table tennis team competition.

The three silver medallists were cyclist Rastislav Tureček, who competed in individual time trials; table tennis player Alena Kánová, who competed in the single’s competition; and table tennis team Miroslav Jambor and Richard Csejtey. Jambor also won bronze in the single’s competition.

Since independence, Slovak athletes at the Paralympics have won 68 medals (12 gold, 28 silver and 28 bronze). The most successful individual athlete is Ján Riapoš, the current chairman of the Slovak Paralympic Committee, who is the only person to have won two gold medals.

During his speech, Fico also mentioned the discrepancy in state support for training Olympics athletes compared with Paralympic athletes.

The state spent Sk52 million (almost €1.73 million) to support each Olympic medal winner, he said, while it spent only Sk2.5 million (€83,000) to support the country's Paralympic medallists.


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