{"id":20576,"date":"2025-10-02T23:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-para-athletics-championships-nathan-maguire-wins-t54-1500m-bronze\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:25:43","slug":"world-para-athletics-championships-nathan-maguire-wins-t54-1500m-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-para-athletics-championships-nathan-maguire-wins-t54-1500m-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"World Para Athletics Championships: Nathan Maguire wins T54 1500m bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Great Britain&#8217;s Nathan Maguire thanked his family for helping him achieve his dream after winning T54 1500m bronze at the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maguire overtook Switzerland&#8217;s Marcel Hug on the final bend and finished behind Chinese pair Jin Hua and Luo Xingchuan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old added to the bronze he won in the T54 800m at the 2024 World Championships in Kobe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is what I&#8217;ve dreamed of for my whole career,&#8221; Maguire told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s always special to be able to do this in front of your family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never been to a race without my parents with me and I know how much they put into me when I was growing up to get me to this point, so it&#8217;s a team effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maguire finished fourth in the T54 400m on Tuesday but has the opportunity to pick up another medal in the 800m event this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Hannah Taunton missed out on a medal in the women&#8217;s T20 1500m final as she finished fourth in four minutes 42.95 seconds, seven seconds behind Australia&#8217;s Annabelle Colman who took bronze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brazil&#8217;s Antonia Keyla Da Silva Barros set a world record of 4:19.22 to take gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophie Hahn, a two-time Paralympic champion over 100m, finished eighth for Great Britain in the women&#8217;s T38 200m final in 27.11, with Colombia&#8217;s Karen Palomeque taking gold with a world record of 24.98.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cwyd2ypdn6vo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain&#8217;s Nathan Maguire thanked his family for helping him achieve his dream after winning T54 1500m bronze at the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi. Maguire overtook Switzerland&#8217;s Marcel Hug on the final bend and finished behind Chinese pair Jin Hua and Luo Xingchuan. The 28-year-old added to the bronze he won in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20578,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20576\/revisions\/20578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}