Reigning Paralympics champion Sumit Antil on Wednesday bettered his personal javelin throw F64 global document with a great 73.29m try on strategy to profitable gold as he led Bharat’s whopping 30-medal haul at the 3rd future of competitions on the Hangzhou Asian Para Video games. Bharat’s overall medal rely nearest 3 days stood at 64 (15 gold, 20 silver, 29 bronze) and so they had been positioned at 6th spot, one ill from Tuesday. China persisted to consolidate on the govern of the tally with 300 medals (118 gold, 96 silver, 86 bronze), adopted by means of Iran (24, 30, 19), Japan (20, 21, 28), Thailand (20, 13, 30) and Uzbekistan (17, 17, 21).
It was once essentially the most fruitful future for Bharat, with 17 out of the 30 medals and the entire six gold coming from athletics.
The 25-year-old Antil needy his personal earlier global document of 70.83m which he had thrown era profitable gold on the International Para Athletics Championships in Paris previous this yr.
Any other Indian, Pushpendra Singh, gained the bronze medal with a throw of 62.06m.
Antil, the reigning global champion, had gained gold within the males’s javelin F64 tournament on the Tokyo Paralympic Video games with a later global document throw of 68.55m.
The F64 section is for athletes with a leg amputation, who compete with prosthetics in a status place.
Antil, who hails from Sonepat, misplaced his left leg beneath the knee nearest he was once interested in a motorcycle hit in 2015 when he was once 17.
A graduate from Delhi’s Ramjas School, Antil was once an able-bodied wrestler ahead of the hit. A para athlete in his village initiated him to javelin throw in 2018. He were given his preliminary inspiration from double Paralympic gold medallist javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia.
Antil additionally competed in opposition to Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra in an able-bodied tournament — Indian Lavish Prix 3 — in March 2021.
Ankur Dhama become the primary Indian to win two gold medals in one version of the Asian Para Video games as he clinched the govern spot in males’s T11 1500m race with a era of four:27.70. He had additionally gained a gold in males’s males’s T11 5000m race on Tuesday.
Any other Indian, Sundar Singh Gurjar, additionally prepared a brandnew global document within the males’s F46 javelin throw as he despatched his spear to a distance of 68.60m en path to profitable the gold. The sooner global document of 67.79m was once within the identify of Dinesh Mudiyanselage Herath of Sri Lanka.
If truth be told, Indians swept the entire 3 medals within the males’s F46 javelin throw tournament with Rinku (67.08m) and Ajeet Singh (63.52m) profitable silver and bronze respectively.
It was once 1-2 for the Indians within the girls’s T11 1500m tournament with Rakshitha Raju (5:21.45) and Killaka Lalitha (5:48.85) taking gold and silver respectively. Rakshitha had gained a gold in the similar tournament within the 2018 Asian Para Video games in Jakarta.
Haney and Nimisha Suresh Chakkungalparambil added gold medals in males’s F37/38 javelin throw and girls’s T47 lengthy leap occasions.
Haney produced a Video games document of 55.97m era Nimisha cleared 5.15m to tug Bharat’s gold medal tally to fifteen.
Pooja gained a silver in girls’s F54/55 discus throw with an try 18.17m era Narayan Thakur and Shreyansh Trivedi picked up a bronze every in males’s T35 200m and T37 200m with occasions of 29.83 and 25.26 respectively.
The Indians completed 2nd and 3rd in each the lads’s T13 1500m race and males’s F47 shot put occasions.
Sharath Shankarappa Makanahalli (4:13.60) and Balwant Singh Rawat (4:20.58) clinched silver and bronze era Rana Soman (14.42) and Hokato Hotozhe Sema (13.94) completed 2nd and 3rd respectively.
In para desk tennis, Tokyo Paralympics silver medallist Bhavina Patel gained a bronze in girls’s singles Elegance 4 nearest she misplaced to Gu Xiaodan of China 1-3 (7-11 11-6 6-11 7-11) within the semifinal. Sandeep Dangi added any other bronze in males’s singles elegance 1.
Bharat gained 3 medals in para archery — two silver and a bronze. Armless archers Sheetal Devi and Sarita gained a silver medal nearest shedding 150-152 to the Chinese language pair of Lin Yueshan and Zhang Lu.
The alternative silver was once gained by means of males’s doubles compound pair of Rakesh Kumar and Suraj Singh nearest they misplaced 150-155 to the Chinese language duo of Ai Xinliang and He Zihao.
Harvinder Singh and Sahil gained a bronze in males’s doubles recurve tournament nearest beating the Thai pair of Hanreuchai Netsiri and Pornchai Phimthong 6-0. Harvinder had gained a bronze medal within the Tokyo Paralympics and a gold within the 2018 Asian Para Video games.
In para badminton, Bharat clinched six bronze medals — Manasi Joshi and Mandeep Kaur (each girls’s singles SL3), Vaishnavi Puneyani (girls’s singles SL4), Pramod Bhagat/Manisha Ramdass and Nitesh Kumar/Thulasimathi Murugesan (each blended doubles SL3-SU5) and Sivarajan Solaimalai/Sivan Sumathy (blended doubles SH6) — they all nearest shedding their semifinal fits.
In para powerlifting, Zainab Khatun and Rajkumari gained a siver and a bronze respectively within the girls’s 61kg section. Khatun lifted 85kg era Rajkumari had a a hit try of 84kg.
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