Argentina won its first medal in the Paralympic Games

 

August 31, 2012

 

The Argentine rider Rodrigo Lopez won the bronze medal in the C1 persecution of the Paralympic Games, defeating Michael Teuber, of Germany.

With a time of 4m 04s 559, the athlete claimed the first medal for Argentina mission in London, after having achieved a diploma in a mile race.

The Entre Rios, who has cerebral palsy and is 33 years old, gets his second medal at the Paralympic Games. The first, also bronze in Athens had reached 2004.