This was India’s best-ever present at a World Para Athletics Championships surpassing the mark at Dubai 2019 Worlds that had 9 medals. India had 5 medals in World Para Athletics Championships London 2017.
Not simply by medals, new stars emerged at Paris 2023 who registered their private finest, received their first ever medals and joined the seasoned names among the many prime performers. There have been girls winners too, who received each medals and quotas, to go away a mark on the championships.
Antil, who competed in his first main competitors since his record-breaking efficiency at Tokyo 2020, put up an unimaginable present so as to add a Worlds gold to his Paralympic gold on the Charlety Stadium, Paris.
The 25-year-old from Sonepat went on to enhance his personal world document mark with a throw of 70.83m, ending forward of Australian Michal Burian (65.21) and Sri Lanka’s Dulan Kodithuwakku (64.06) in F44 classes.
“Being a world champion with a brand new world document is one thing I’m actually happy with!!! Thanks everybody in your love and help!!! JAI HIND,” tweeted the Paralympic and world champion, who has a silver from the Dubai 2019 Worlds.
Antil’s present was adopted up by his fellow thrower Ajeet Singh and Rinku Hooda taking the 1-2 positions in males’s javelin F46 finals.
Singh impressed by hurling his javelin to 65.41m for a brand new championship document whereas Hooda was simply 0.3m behind getting his season’s finest. Dubai 2019 world champion Sundar Singh Gurjar settled for the fourth place, fetching India a quota place.
Maharashtra-based Sachin Khilari’s highly effective throw of 16.21m in males’s shot put F46 was sufficient to fetch him his first worldwide medal, a World title with an Asian document.
Other than the javelin throwers, the excessive jumpers too made a mark with Paralympic medallists Nishad Kumar (T47), Shailesh Kumar (T63) and Praveen Kumar (T64) taking the silver and bronze medals.
Nishad, in actual fact, went on to set a brand new Asian document on his approach taking the silver with an effort of two.09m.
Amongst others, seasoned Ekta Bhyan (17.9 3m) claimed a bronze medal with an Asian document in girls’s membership throw F51, whereas Pooja emerged as the brand new title in girls’s javelin F54 closing with a private finest throw of 14.70m.
There have been a number of others who missed out on the medal however earned India quota locations for Paris 2024 Paralympcis – Thangavelu Mariyappan (Males’s Excessive Bounce T42), Navdeep (Males’s Javelin Throw F41), Soman Rana (Males’s Shot Put F57), Dilip Mahadu Gavit (Males’s 400m T46), Bhagyashri Mahavrao Jadhav (Girls’s Shot Put F34), Kashish Lakra (Girls’s Membership Throw F51).
