Algeria's paralympian Abdellatif Baka, along with three other para-athletes, recorded times in the in the 1500m - T12/13 event, which would have been enough to win a gold medal in the main 1500m event during the Rio Olympics.Baka won the gold in three minutes and 48.29 seconds, while Ethiopia 's Tamiru Demisse who took silver with 3:48.49 and Kenyan Henry Kirwa (3:49.59), walked away bronze. What stood out was that these athletes were not running in blades, but were visually-impaired, as the T12/13 events signals.The surprising bit however, is that had these four paralympians participated in the exact stadium last month, they would beaten Matthew Centrowitz Jr . of the U.S. for the Olympic gold medal. Centrowitz Jr. had finished the final in 3 minutes and 50 seconds."It wasn't easy to get this gold medal," Abdellatif said afterward. "I've been working one or two years nonstop and it's been very, very hard for me."