The 26-year-old from Sonipat, Haryana, surpassed his personal earlier Paralympic document of 68.55m set in Tokyo three years in the past.
Antil stays the world document holder on this class with a throw of 73.29m.
Antil, the reigning world champion, joins shooter Avani Lekhara because the second Indian to defend a Paralympic gold medal.
Lekhara had achieved this feat in ladies’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 occasion on the Paris Paralympics after her preliminary win in the identical occasion on the Tokyo Video games.
Antil turns into a part of an unique group of three Indians to have received two Paralympic gold medals, alongside Avani Lekhara and Devendra Jhajharia, who clinched javelin throw F46 gold within the 2004 Athens and 2016 Rio Video games.
Antil’s current achievements embody successful gold within the World Para Athletics Championships in each 2023 and 2024, and within the Asian Para Video games held final yr in Hangzhou, China.
His second-round throw of 70.59m in Paris ensured his dominance, whereas his different important efforts included 69.11m within the opening try and 69.04m in his fifth. Nevertheless, he didn’t meet his private objective of breaching the 75m mark.
The silver medal within the F64 class went to Dulan Kodithuwakku of Sri Lanka with a throw of 67.03m whereas Michal Burian of Australia claimed bronze with 64.89m.
Amongst different Indian rivals, Sandeep and Sandip Sanjay Sargar completed fourth and seventh with throws of 62.80m and 58.03m, respectively.
The F64 class consists of athletes with decrease limb impairments, who compete utilizing prosthesis or are affected by variations in leg size.
Antil’s journey within the sport started after he misplaced his left leg beneath the knee in a motorcycle accident in 2015. A Ramjas School pupil in Delhi, Antil was concerned in wrestling earlier than his accident led to the amputation.
Launched to javelin by a para athlete in his village in 2018, he even competed in opposition to Tokyo Olympics champion Neeraj Chopra within the able-bodied Indian Grand Prix sequence in March 2021, ending seventh with a throw of 66.43m.
On the identical day, Yogesh Kathuniya secured his second consecutive Paralympic silver in males’s discus throw F-56 class with a season’s finest effort of 42.22m.
The 27-year-old achieved the podium-clinching distance in his first try.
Brazil’s Claudiney Batista dos Santos set a brand new Video games document with 46.86m to win his third consecutive gold, whereas Greece’s Konstantinos Tzounis took bronze with a throw of 41.32m.
The F-56 classification consists of athletes with limb deficiencies, leg size variations, impaired muscle energy, and restricted vary of motion.
Kathuniya developed Guillain-Barre syndrome on the age of 9, a uncommon autoimmune situation inflicting numbness, tingling, and muscle weak point that may result in paralysis. His restoration and return to mobility have been potential as a consequence of his mom, Meena Devi, who realized physiotherapy methods to help his rehabilitation.
Kathuniya is a commerce graduate from Delhi’s Kirori Mal School, and in addition to two Paralympic silver medals, he has three world championship medals to his identify.
On Sunday, Preethi Pal made historical past by turning into the primary Indian girl monitor and subject athlete to win two medals on the Paralympics.
The 23-year-old secured bronze within the 200m T35 class with a private finest time of 30.01 seconds, including to her earlier bronze within the 100m T35 class. She joins shooter Avani Lekhara as the one Indian ladies to have received two medals in a single Paralympics, with Lekhara securing a gold and a bronze in Tokyo.
Preethi, a farmer’s daughter from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, was born with important bodily challenges. Her decrease physique was in plaster for six days after start, resulting in weak legs and an irregular leg posture. She underwent varied remedies, together with sporting calipers for eight years from the age of 5.
The T35 classification includes athletes with coordination impairments resembling hypertonia, ataxia, and athetosis.
Nishad Kumar, hailing from Una in Himachal Pradesh, earned India’s third para-athletics medal and seventh total on the Paris Paralympics with a silver within the males’s excessive bounce T47 class.
The 24-year-old achieved a season’s finest effort of two.04m. Nishad, who misplaced his proper hand in a grass-cutting machine accident at age six, had beforehand received silver in Tokyo with a bounce of two.06m.
