McKillop claims another gold for Ireland
“I won’t lie, that was tough, but I’m delighted to win the medal,” said McKillop after his race. “The Russian [Kobesov] is a really strong 400m runner, and I knew he’d run 51 seconds over that distance so it was really important for me to take it out hard or he would have out kicked me and that’s what I did. I pushed on for 200m after the bell and then just got through it from there.”
McKillop’s gold added to Jason Smyth’s victory in the T12 100m on Tuesday. John McCarthy followed on from his fourth place finish in the T51 wheelchair 400m on Tuesday to place fifth in the 100m in 26.25 seconds.
