Ricardo Ten, runner-up in the elimination world

The Valencian Ricardo Ten was proclaimed this Saturday runner-up in the elimination world championships at the Paralympic track cycling world championships which are held in Apeldoorn (Netherlands), in which he has three medals after previously winning gold in scratch and bronze in the kilometer time trial, class C1.

Ten, who until 2017 was an outstanding Paralympic swimmer, climbed to the second place on the podium accompanying the Chinese Weicong Langgold, and Malaysian Mohammad Shaharuddinbronze.

Ricardo Ten, at the age of eight, saw his life take a tremendous turn when he suffered an electrical accident that caused him to lose both arms and one leg. He found his refuge in sport. In swimming, at the 1995 European Championship in Perpignan (France), he began a career full of success that led him to win more than one hundred titles in the water as champion of Spain, 13 European Championships, 7 World Championships, and for 15 years he was in possession of the world record for the 100-meter breaststroke class SB4 (1997-2012).

In addition, he accumulated participations in the Paralympic Games in Atlanta (1996), Sydney (2000), Beijing (2008), London (2012) and Rio de Janeiro (2016), achieving a haul of three gold medals, one silver and two bronze.