“At a distance of 1500 m you were faster and more collected than your eminent rivals, confidently proved that you deserve to be the first.
With their victorious performance, they continued the "golden score" of our team, "- said in a letter from Putin to Yaremchuk on the Kremlin website.
Earlier it was reported that Yaremchuk took first place in the 1500 m race at the Paralympics.
Yaremchuk ran the distance in 03: 52.08.
The participants of the competition represented the category of athletes with impairments of the musculoskeletal system.