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Great Britain's Jonnie Peacock said "2017 Jonnie is the feline helium needs to find" to vie with the world's champion aft finishing 5th successful the men's T64 100m last successful Paris.
The two-time Paralympic champion made a good commencement retired of the blocks, but was overtaken successful the second stages of the contention and yet crossed the enactment successful 10.91 seconds.
Costa Rica's Sherman Guity took golden with a Paralympic grounds clip of 10.65.
Italian Maxcel Amo Manu finished second, with Germany's Felix Streng taking the bronze medal.
"It's frustrating but 2017 Jonnie would person wiped the level with each of them," Peacock told Channel 4.
"I ran 10.64 slowing down [at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships successful London] and that's what a batch of radical look to person forgotten.
"They number maine retired due to the fact that they deliberation these guys are fast, and they are, they are fast. But 2017 Jonnie was precise accelerated and that's the feline I request to find."
Peacock, 31, won T44 golden astatine London 2012 and successful Rio 4 years later, earlier taking bronze successful the T64 lawsuit successful Tokyo 3 years ago.
Recently helium has been affected by injures and issues with his technique, finishing 5th successful past year's World Championships.
There was besides disappointment for David Weir, who finished sixth successful his vigor and failed to suffice for the men's T54 1500m final, but chap Briton Nathan Maguire volition beryllium successful Tuesday's last aft ending 3rd successful his heat.
Speaking aft his race, Peacock asked for the assistance of World Athletics president Lord Coe to marque para-athletics much "visible" arsenic helium called for his lawsuit to beryllium included connected the programme of aboriginal Diamond League meets.
World Athletics are a abstracted entity to World Para Athletics, portion the schedules for Diamond League meetings are down to idiosyncratic operators.
"This is simply a contention that I deliberation radical privation to see," said Peacock. "And this is simply a contention that I deliberation is exciting. It's a contention that chops and changes.
"Seb Coe, I request you, we request you. And we request you to enactment america successful the existent Diamond Leagues. Not a cheerleader event, not 5 minutes earlier the cameras crook on, but erstwhile the cameras are on. We request to beryllium visible.
"Paralympics, we request to halt letting it die. We've fto it dice implicit a fewer years. So overmuch of the media astatine the infinitesimal would reason astir visibility representation.
"Well, then, wherever are we? Where are we successful the Diamond Leagues? I've been calling connected this for however galore years now? 12 years? Not erstwhile successful 12 years person we been successful the programme. Why?
"I privation to spell into the Diamond Leagues. And I deliberation it's astir time."
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