Paralympic swimmer Mark Malyar snagged his second gold medal in the Tokyo Games on Sunday, winning the 400-meter freestyle event.
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Malyar, 21, set a time of 4:31.06 in the swim, breaking a world record he himself set.
Andrii Trusov of Ukraine won the silver medal, while Evan Austin from the US claimed the bronze.
This is Israel's fifth medal in the 2020 Paralympics. The Jewish state has so far scored three gold medals and two silver ones.
These are Malyar's first Paralympics Games. He is competing in Tokyo alongside his twin brother Ariel. Both were born with cerebral palsy and started swimming at age 5 for physical therapy.
At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships – moved from Malaysia to Britain after the former refused to allow Israeli athletes onto its soil – Malyar also won the gold and the silver medals and set a world record.
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