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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- China's Huang Wenpan broke his own world record in the men's 150m individual medley SM3 to claim his fifth gold medal of the Rio Paralympics on Friday.
Huang touched the wall in two minutes 40.19 seconds, to eclipse his previous record by almost three seconds.
Ukraine's Dmytro Vynohradets took silver in 2:40.75 and Du Jianping bronze in 2:52.32.
Huang's other victories here came in the 200m freestyle S3, 50m breaststroke SB2, 50m freestyle S3 and the mixed 4x50m freestyle 20 points.
The 21-year-old was born with cerebral palsy and started swimming in 2010.
