Shan­ntol Ince clocked 1:22.14 sec­onds in the heat one of the Women's 100-me­tres back­stroke-S9 event but her time was not good enough for her to ad­vance to the fi­nal at the Par­a­lympic Games in Lon­don, Eng­land yes­ter­day. It was the sec­ond straight day that the lo­cal swim­mer dived in­to the pool at the Aquat­ics Cen­tre but not get­ting the re­sult she de­sired. On Thurs­day morn­ing, she touched the wall in 1:25.50 in the Women's 100m but­ter­fly-S9 to place sixth in in the first of two heats but her time again was not quick enough to ad­vance to the fi­nal. Na­tal­ie du Toit of South Africa took gold in that event in a time of 1.09.30, claim­ing the 11th gold medal of her glit­ter­ing Par­a­lympic ca­reer of her third suc­ces­sive Games.

Sarai Gas­con of Spain copped the sil­ver while Amer­i­can Eliz­a­beth Stone bagged the bronze. Lon­don 2012 will mark the fi­nal chap­ter for Du Toit, who will bow out of com­pe­ti­tion af­ter the Par­a­lympics. Ince's fi­nal event will be the 400m freestyle-S9 with the heats card­ed for Tues­day from 5.19 (T&T time). Her team­mate Ronald Car­los Greene will get his first taste of ac­tion to­mor­row in the Men's Dis­cus Throw-F11 fi­nal from 3.45 pm (T&T time)at Olympic Sta­di­um. The fol­low­ing day he will re­turn to the sta­di­um to com­pete in the Men's Shot Put F11/12 at 5 am (T&T time).