WPAC day two: Barren day for Indians even as records continue to fall

After the precocious of Day One, it was a disappointing outing for the Indians astatine the World Para Athletics Championships with each six section hopefuls crossed 3 events failing to adjacent scope the top-five successful their respective competitions connected Sunday adjacent arsenic records kept falling connected the 2nd time of the event.

India slipped to 12th presumption connected the medal tally portion Brazil managed to bent connected to apical spot with 10 medals truthful far, 1 up of China. Bulgaria’s Ruzhdi claimed his sixth successive satellite rubric successful the men’s Shot Put F55 with a caller satellite grounds of 12.94m, 1 of the 4 satellite records acceptable connected the day, 3 of them successful the greeting session.

Others included Malaysia’s Abdul Latif Romly, completing his hat-trick of agelong leap T20 satellite titles with a 7.67m leap and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Ponomarenko who threw the changeable enactment successful T12 class to 17.39m. Norway’s Salum Ageze Kashafali clocked 10.42 seconds successful the 100m T12, improving his ain WR and mounting a caller title grounds adjacent arsenic Indians Rakeshbhai Bhatt and Shreyansh Trivedi brought up the rear of the eight-member field. There were 4 much title records acceptable crossed men and women arsenic the overseas athletes continued to beryllium their superiority.

Vikas successful the agelong leap T47 was the champion Indian connected the day, finishing sixth with a 6.96m leap portion Ajay Singh finished 10th. In the men’s javelin propulsion F57, Parveen Kumar ended successful 8 presumption with a champion propulsion of 41.92m portion Hem Chandra managed a idiosyncratic champion of 41.17m to decorativeness 10th.

Among the women, Nassima Saifi retained her rubric successful the Discus Throw F57 and Swiss wheelchair fable and 5000m T54 satellite grounds holder Catherine Debrunner reiterated her supremacy, adding yet different satellite rubric to her name, winning successful 12:18.29.

The results: Men: 100m T12: Salum Ageze Kashafali (Nor, 10.42s); 100m T37: Ricardo Mendonca (Bra, 11.16s) caller CR, Rakeshbhai Bhatt (7th, 11.88s), Shreyansh Trivedi (8th, 12.18s); 100m T38: Jaydin Blackwell (USA, 10.70s); 400m T72: Carlo Calcagni (Ita, 59.91s); 5000m T54: Marcel Hug (Sui, 10:03.64); Shot Put F55: Ruzhdi Ruzhdi (Bul, 12.94m); Shot Put F12:Volodymyr Ponomarenko (Ukr, 17.39m); Long Jump T20: Abdul Latif Romly (Mas, 7.67m); Javelin Throw F57: Muhammet Khalvandi (Tur, 53.30m), Parveen Kumar (8th, 41.92m), Hem Chandra (10th, 41.17m); Club Throw F32: Walid Farhah (Alg, 39.53m); long leap T47: Robiel Cervantes (Cub, 7.57m), Vikas (6th, 6.96m), Ajay Singh (10th, 6.31m).

Women: 100m T13: Orla Comerford (Irl, 11.88s); 400m T72: Magdalena Andruszkiewicz (Pol, 1:13.98); 400m T34: Hannan Cockroft (GBR, 55.62s); 400m T37: Nataliia Kobzar (Ukr, 1:01.18); 1500m T11: Neri Roxana Mamani Quispe with usher Aldo Milagro Cusi Huaman (Per, 4:59.93); 1500m T13: Greta Streimikyte (Irl, 4:39.62); 5000m T54: Catherine Debrunner (Sui, 12:18.29); Discus Throw F57: Nassimi Saifi (Alg, 34.54m); Shot Put F37: Lisa Adams (Nzl, 13.83m); Javelin Throw F13: Yuping Zhao (Chn, 45.22m).