Reigning Paralympics champion Sumit Antil on Wednesday clinched a gold medal on the Hangzhou Asian Para Video games javelin throw F64 occasion with a world report effort of 73.29m.
The 25-year-old broke his personal earlier world report of 70.83m which he had thrown whereas profitable gold on the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris earlier this yr.
One other Indian, Pushpendra Singh received the bronze medal with a throw of 62.06m.
Samitha Arachchige Kodithuwakku of Sri Lanka took the silver with a throw of 64.09m.
Antil had received gold within the males’s javelin F64 occasion on the Tokyo Paralympic Video games with a then world report throw of 68.55m.
This was India’s tenth gold on the ongoing Hangzhou Asian Para Video games with the entire medal rely swelling to 36.
In the meantime, Prachi Yadav yesterday turned the primary Indian to win a para canoe gold within the Asian Para Video games.
India received 17 medals on Tuesday, together with three gold, taking the entire tally to 34 within the first two days of competitors.
India ended Day 2 positioned fifth within the standings, one spot down from Monday, with 9 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze, behind China (165: 66 gold, 53 silver, 46 bronze), Iran (47), Japan (45) and Uzbekistan (38).
Prachi, who had received a silver in canoe VL2 class on Monday, bagged her second medal of the Video games as she picked up a gold in KL2 occasion.
Deepthi Jeevanji (ladies’s T20 400m) and Neeraj Yadav (males’s F54/55/56 discus throw) have been the opposite gold medal winners on Tuesday.
Sharath Shankarappa Makanahalli received the lads’s T13 5000m occasion and his gold was initially counted and included in India’s medal tally.
However the variety of India’s gold medals was decreased to 9 as there have been solely two rivals within the occasion.
Beneath the Asian Paralympics Committee rulebook, it’s as much as the technical delegate to award medals in circumstances the place there are fewer than three rivals.
