Grigoris Polychronidis
Boccia legend Polychronidis earns his seventh Paralympics medal
Grigoris Polychronidis has become a true Paralympics legend after earning his seventh medal in the BC3 category of boccia on Sunday in Paris.
The bronze medal that the category's icon has earned is Greece's fourth, and sixth medal overall (alongside two silver ones) so far in the first four days of the Paris Paralympics.
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The 19-year-old defeated China’s Yinan Yao with a score of 14-4 in the bronze medal match of the 65kg (K44 category) and became the first Greek athlete to win a medal in this event.
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