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Ekta Bhayan became the 18th medallist arsenic India surpassed its best-ever show astatine the World Para Athletics Championships connected the penultimate time of enactment astatine the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium present connected Saturday.
Ekta, the defending champion successful the F51 Club Throw category, managed a champion propulsion of 19.80m successful her last effort to settee for metallic down Ukraine’s Zoia Ovsii (24.03m) but declared she was satisfied with her performance. India had 17 medals successful the erstwhile variation successful Kobe.
India added 3 much to its tally connected Day Seven, including 2 medals – metallic for Soman Rana successful Shot Put F57 and bronze for Praveen Kumar successful High Jump T64 – to stay 5th connected the array portion China overtook Brazil to spell apical with 41 medals truthful far.
“The people was golden evidently but this is my 3rd satellite title medal and I americium gladsome I could repetition my show from past year. There was a small unit some arsenic defending champion and it being held astatine location but that’s the quality of sports, you person to flooded your challenges,” the 40-year aged said aft adding a metallic to her bronze (2023) and golden (2024) to implicit her collection.
Despite challenging, sultry upwind conditions that made holding the nine difficult, Ekta was happier for the information that she her Paralympic imagination was live with LA28 including her lawsuit successful the programme aft it was dropped astatine Paris past year.
Paris Paralympics golden medallist Praveen, who had a bronze astatine the 2023 Worlds earlier finishing an agonising 4th past year, added a 2nd bronze with a season’s champion leap of 2 metres contempt a sore backmost that hampered his training. But the astonishment of the time was the 42-year aged mine-blast subsister from Indian Army Soman Rana, winning his first-ever satellite level medal aft adjacent 4th and 5th spot finishes successful the past 2 Paralympics.
In the morning, Chakkungal Parambil finished 4th successful the women’s Long Jump T47 with a 5.74m leap for a caller Asian record.
The results: Men: 100m T52: Anthony Bouchard (Can, 16.95s); 100m T35: Artem Kalashian (NPA, 11.55s); 100m T51: Peter Genyn (Bel, 20.19s); 1500m T20: Michael Brannigan (USA, 3:50.44); 1500m T46: Aleksandr Iaremchuk (NPA, 3:53.26); High Jump T64: Temurbek Giyazov (Uzb, 2.03m), Praveen Kumar (3rd, 2.00m), Banti (6th, 1.87m); Javelin Throw F13: Daniel Pembroke (GBR, 68.51m), Manjeet (5th, 57.80m); Javelin Throw F54: Ali Baziyarshoorijeh (Iri, 32.24m), Pradeep Kumar (7th, 26.11m); Shot Put F38: Levino Denis (Col, 20.38m), bettering ain WR; Shot Put F57: Yasin Khosravi (Iri, 16.60m) bettering ain WR, Soman Rana (2nd, 14.69m), Hokato Sema (6th, 14.35m), Shubham Juyal (7th, 13.72m).
Women: 800m T34: Hannah Cockroft (GBR, 1:49.88); Long Jump T11: Alba Falagan (Esp, 4.80m); Long Jump T47: Kiara Rodriguez (Ecu, 6.29m), Chakkungal Parambil (4th, 5.74m) AR; Shot Put F12: Assunta Legnante (Ita, 14.44m); Shot Put F35: Mariia Pomazan (Ukr, 12.04m); Club Throw F51: Zoia Ovsii (Ukr, 24.03m), Ekta Bhayan (2nd, 19.80m), Kashish Lakra (11.64m); Universal 4x100m: Netherlands (47.73s).
