Midale’s Keely Shaw took to the track in two events in the first two days of competition at the Paralympics, and is coming home with a medal. Shaw captured the bronze medal in the C-4 3000m pursuit this morning, beating Samantha Bosco of the United States to capture the medal. Shaw finished the race with a time of 3:46.942. Her average speed for the race was 47.589 km/h.
In the qualifying round, Shaw put up the third fastest time of the day, finishing the 3000m in a time of 3:44.012. This was off the pace of the top qualifier, Emily Petricola of Australia, who set a new world record with her time of 3:35.856.
This is Shaw’s second medal at the Paralympics, capturing a bronze in the same event at the 2021 Games held in Tokyo.
Thursday, Shaw raced in the 500m time trial. She would finish eighth in qualifying and did not advance to the medal round. She had previously told Discover Weyburn she looks at the 500m time trial as a warm-up race for the rest of her events.
Shaw is back in action at the Paralympics on September 4th, when she will be racing in the women’s C4 individual time trial. She will compete in her final event, the women’s C4-5 road race, on September 6th.