London: Raisa Chebanika completed a remarkable triumph in the women’s Singles – Class 6 at ExCeL today, as her prayers for victory were answered.
The Russian had complex brain surgery less than a year ago after severe headaches led to her being diagnosed with a rare condition that affects the nerve endings in the brain.
Her future at that point was uncertain and qualifying for the London 2012 Paralympic Games was a major victory in itself.
Today she overcame Antonina Khodzynska of Ukraine 3-0 (14-12, 11-2, 11-8) to take the title, and afterwards she could not contain her emotion.
Chebanika said: ‘I can’t believe it, I had very complex surgery last year and there were doubts about me playing here. I prayed to God to win and he answered my prayers.’
Ukraine also secured bronze in Class 6 as Yuliya Klymenko won 3-1 over German Stephanie Grebe.
Elsewhere, world number one Holger Nikelis of Germany completed a near-faultless tournament by taking men’s Singles – Class 1 gold over France’s Jean-Francois Ducay 3-1. Great Britain’s Paul Davies won bronze in the third-place play-off.
Zhao Shuai of China beat Slovakia’s Richard Csejtey to take men’s Singles – Class 8 gold while Emil Andersson of Sweden won the bronze-medal match.
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