India’s Pranav Soorma and Avani Lekhara dazzled brightly with coruscating performances for the nation as they bagged gold in the boys’s membership throw F51 occasion and in ladies’s R2 10m air rifle respectively on Monday, October 23.
Soorma shattered the Para Asian Games file as he recorded a throw measuring 30.01 metres to clinch gold. His compatriots Dharambir and Amit Kumar recorded throws measuring 28.76m and 26.93m to clinch silver and bronze respectively.
India swept the rostrum in the occasion comprising four rivals, the fourth one being Radhi Ali Alharthi of Saudi Arabia, who completed final together with her effort recording 23.77m.
Meanwhile, India’s ace shooter Avani scripted a video games file together with her rating of 249.6 and claimed gold in the ladies’s R2 10m air rifle standing SH1 class.Â
Avani earned recognition for the primary time when she clinched gold on the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and have become the primary Indian girl to file such a feat in the Summer occasion.
India additionally completed 1-2-3 in the boys’s excessive leap T63 class however may solely handle to safe gold and silver as per the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) guidelines.
The total competitors featured solely three Indians and in accordance to the APC’s ‘minus one rule’ Shailesh Kumar claimed gold with an effort of 1.82 metres and his compatriot Mariyappan Thangavelu claimed silver with a leap measuring 1.80 metres.
Govindbhai Ramsingbhai Padhiyar who recorded 1.78m could not fetch bronze as per the APC guidelines. Significantly, the absence of four contributors in the competitors robbed him of that medal.
On the opposite hand, Nishad Kumar grabbed India’s third gold medal on Monday, after clearing a peak of two.02 metres in the boys’s excessive leap T47 class. Ram Pal of India secured bronze together with his greatest effort measuring 1.94m.
