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KENYA’s GOOD ENDING: Chelagat caps team’s show in Rio with world record display

Jin Zheng (R) CHN and her guide Yubo Jin (2 R) compete in the Women's 1500m - T11 Athletics Final at the Olympic Stadium during the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 17, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / TASSO MARCELO

Kenya’s Nancy Koech Chelagat produced a scintillating show as she claimed silver on the final day of the Paralympics Games in Rio, Brazil.

It was a hot battle between the Kenyan, who finished second and China’s Jin Zheng, in the women’s 1,500m T11 final at the Olympics Stadium on Saturday night.

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