competition will take some time to conclude seated throwing events usually take a couple of hours men's 100 meters t13 jason smith of ireland the world record and paralympic record holder won gold last three paralympic games and eight world championship goals he was extremely good in his heat setting an african record in 2016. can he make it four paralympic titles in a row so handler and skinner went through from the opening heat this morning that was a fast one and all three medalists from rio were there panda in two skittering three jean paul in four nambala in five smith the champion in six athmani in seven watch out for him minneara ponza in eight from columbia and paris of australia in lane nine 10.46 that world and paralympic record for jason smith kasha farley who runs in the t12 category and we'll be seeing a little later in his final leveled that mark in his heat for the 100 meters men's t12 so shared as the fastest paralympian with that man there's the least of the visual impairment categories and they get away and smith got away really quickly indeed that austin john paul of the united states but it's smith out in front he's being chased by the algerian asmari but smith gets there on the line just or smith has held off athmania who another five meters or so i think ahmadi may well have got to him but a season best for jason smith in 10 53 he makes it four paralympic titles in a row he's won by one 100th of a second a new african record that he broke earlier in the day colombia has also broken the area record and picked up the bronze well one 100th of a second that's all you need and jason smith has picked up a fourth successive paralympic title [Applause] 10.53 the ratified and confirmed time you just feel that if there's another five meters well he may well have been overtaken his start is what got him there it was absolutely incredible just watch that he was out quickest of everyone and when you look at the race overall well that's where smith won it jean-paul looked great there in that first 50 meters he fell away athmani was pushing towards the line he almost got there with the dip but smith did it as marty in second look at the teeth gritting together trying to get him across the line for both of them and mina ponza picks up a bronze medal for colombia well there was conjecture about what would happen with ahmadi the algerian he's so quick and whether smith could hold on to that title he did just that and he makes it a fourth successive one he may be getting on compared to the rest of the field but he can still run the man from derry in the republic of ireland well that there is a very fast start indeed that money was looking strong as well he's running able-bodied events before he was part of the four by 100 algerian team who held the african record back in 2014 but he couldn't quite get there at the end smith looked across to the right i think he realized he was being caught his classification changed from t13 to t12 and back again during his career but he's a t13 jason smith 1053 athmani of algeria with a lifetime best 1 100 of a second behind smith