Akeem Stewart will be at the Stade De France in Paris, France, today, bidding for his third Paralympic Games medal.
The Trinidad and Tobago athlete is among eight entrants in the men’s discus throw F64 event, scheduled to start at 1.04 p.m. (T&T time).
At the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Stewart grabbed javelin F44 gold and discus F44 silver.
The 32-year-old will try to turn silver into gold in today’s discus F64 competition.
The eight-man field includes two men classified F64, American Jeremy Campbell and Croatia’s Ivan Katanusic, as well as five F44 throwers —Great Britain’s Harrison Walsh and Dan Greaves, Estonia’s Egert Joesaar, American David Blair and Colombian Andres Mosquera.
Stewart, the lone F43 athlete in the event, will go into action with the discus F43 world record on his mind.
The Tobago thrower is the record holder at 63.70 metres.
He is also the F43 Paralympic Games record holder with the 61.72m effort that earned him silver at Rio 2016.
Campbell and Blair are also world record holders.
Campbell is the best-ever F64 thrower with a 65.86m effort, while Blair is the F44 record holder at 64.26m.
Blair was golden at Rio 2016 with an F44 Paralympic Games record throw of 64.11m.
Greaves threw 59.57m to claim bronze, behind Blair and Stewart.
At Tokyo 2020, Campbell captured men’s discus F64 gold at 60.22m, forcing Katanusic and Greaves to settle for silver and bronze, respectively, at 55.06 and 53.56.
Stewart did not compete at the Tokyo Games.