Paralympics: Doherty finds will for ninth

A determined Patrice Dockery claimed ninth and a season's best in the T54 5000m final tonight in Athens, having been reinstated following her crash in Sunday's semi-final.

Paralympics: Doherty finds will for ninth

A determined Patrice Dockery claimed ninth and a season's best in the T54 5000m final tonight in Athens, having been reinstated following her crash in Sunday's semi-final.

Battered and bruised, the wily Dubliner clocked 12:50.86, showing great will to fend off Australian Christie Dawes by two-hundredths of a second in a sprint for ninth.

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