Mayor Zoran Janković held a reception at City Hall for Slovenia’s Paralympic team, who returned from London with a silver medal.

Slovenia was represented by 22 athletes at the London Paralympic Games, who took part in six disciplines.

The Slovenian colours were worn proudly by track and field athletes Tanja Cerkvenik, Jože Flere, Tatjana Majcen Ljubič and Henrik Plank, cyclist Roman Pongrac, table tennis players Andreja Dolinar and Mateja Pintar, swimmer Darko Đurić, shooters Damjan Pavlin, Franc Pinter and Franček Gorazd Tiršek and volleyballers Alenka Iršič, Anita Goltnik Urnaut, Bogomira Jakin, Danica Gošnak, Jasmina Zbil, Lena Gabršček, Marinka Cencelj, Regina Roudi Terbuc, Saša Kotnik, Štefka Tomič and Suzana Ocepek.

The team brought home a silver medal, won by Franček Gorazd Tiršek in the Mixed R4-10m Air Rifle Standing Shooting - SH2. The pool also saw a new world record for his S4 class set by Darko Đurić in the 50 metre butterfly. In his heat in the higher category 5 he took 1.20 seconds off the S4 world record, while in the S5 final, in which he finished 5th, he was 51 100ths faster still. His time of 40.48 has seen him written into sporting history.

Congratulations to all the Paralympians and good luck to them for future sporting glory.