Para swimmer Ernie Gawilan (FILE PHOTO)

Para swimmer Ernie Gawilan finish sixth overall in the men’s 400-meter freestyle-S7 event in the Tokyo Paralympics.

Gawilan finished with a time of 4:56.24, over 25 seconds behind Israel’s Mark Malyar who clocked in a world-record time of 4:31.06 during Sunday’s final at the Tokyo Aquatics Center.

Malyar broke the world record he set in London in September 2019, as well as the Paralympic record that he set earlier that day during the heats.

Ukraine’s Andrii Trusov placed second with a time of 4:35.56, while American Evan Austin completed the podium after clocking 4:38.95.

Gawilan, a triple gold medalist in the 2018 Asian Para Games, had been in seventh place after the first 250-meters but surged to sixth place after 300-m, and held off Singapore’s Toh Wei Soong and Taiwan’s Chen Liang-da.

Meanwhile, wheelchair racer Jerrold Mangliwan will compete in the finals of the men’s 1,500-meter-T52 race at 8:42 p.m. (7:42 p.m.) Sunday over at the Japan National Stadium.