Rachael Thom­spon-King

Sprint­er Nyoshia Cain was yes­ter­day evening dis­qual­i­fied in the women's 200 me­tres T44 heat, her first event at the Par­a­lympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Cain lined up in lane sev­en of the open­ing of two heats at the Olympic Sta­di­um and ran a com­fort­able race ex­pect­ing to progress to to­day's fi­nal as she was one of the three au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fiers. The first three in each heat qual­i­fy and the next two fastest ad­vance.

She crossed third be­hind Ger­man's Ir­m­gard Ben­su­san, who ran a Games record of 26.70 sec­onds and Marie-Ame Le Fur (26.97), re­spec­tive­ly but lat­er learned that she was dis­qual­i­fied for a lane in­fringe­ment which was said to have tak­en place be­tween the 100 and 150 me­tres mark­ers dur­ing her run.

It is un­der­stood fol­low­ing the race, the Chef de Mis­sion Judy Beck­les was query­ing the dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion of the 21-year-old lo­cal run­ner but the ref­er­ee up­held the de­ci­sion of the lane judges.

Cain will have to shake off the dis­ap­point­ment of the dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion quick­ly as she will next com­pete in the 100m T44 on Sat­ur­day.

To­day, swim­mer Shan­ntol Ince en­ters the pool for her fi­nal race, the women's 100m but­ter­fly S9 at the Olympic Aquat­ics Sta­di­um.

Ince has had a busy sched­ule for the Games and this will be her fourth event where she will be seek­ing glo­ry. Yes­ter­day, she had a day off and would have worked along­side her coach Karen Arau­jo to get bet­ter re­sults in the one lap event. She will race out of lane lane one in the third and fi­nal heat.

On Fri­day, the 21 year old opened in the 400m freestyle S9 clocked 5:31.06, falling short of qual­i­fy­ing for the fi­nal. Ince suf­fered sim­i­lar fates in the oth­er two events, touch­ing the wall in 1:12.41 on Mon­day and the fol­low­ing day fin­ished in 33.38 sec­onds, to rank 21st over­all from a field of 22 swim­mers in the 50 me­tres freestyle S9 event af­ter placed sev­enth in the open­ing heat.

T&T shin­ing star Akeem Stew­art re­turns to the field to­mor­row to com­pete in the men's dis­cus T44.

Stew­art broke his own world record to nab the gold medal in the men's Javelin Throw F42/43/44 on Fri­day, throw­ing the spear 57.32 me­tres to cap­ture T&T's first medal of the Par­a­lympics.