The penultimate day of the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France delivered more medals for Australia, with Rheed McCracken snaring silver while Angela Ballard and Carly Salmon each claimed bronze on Saturday.
McCracken, who finished the tournament with three silver medals and one bronze, was narrowly edged out for gold in the men's T34 wheelchair 400m for athletes with cerebral palsy, finishing in a tim of 53.71sec - a mere tenth of a second behind Tunisia's Walid Ktila.
"Absolutely stoked with how I have gone here. Four medals, three silver and a bronze, I couldn't be happier," McCracken said.
"I thought the race was mine coming around the bend there but the weather was just insane, the wind was something that got me in the closing stage.
"That's racing though, that's how it goes. So close to gold but it doesn't matter, I have closed my campaign with a silver medal."
Ballard also finished with four medals following her bronze in the women's T53 wheelchair 400m, while 14-year-old Salmon finished third in the T35 cerebral palsy 200m with a personal best time of 34.92sec.
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