Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted this picture on his X (previously Twitter) account congratulating Sumit Antil for profitable the Gold Medal in the Men’s Javelin F64 occasion on the Asian Para Games being held in Hangzhou, China, on Wednesday.
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Reigning Paralympics champion Sumit Antil on Wednesday bettered his personal javelin throw F64 world report with a shocking 73.29m effort on solution to profitable gold as he led India’s whopping 30-medal haul on the third day of competitions on the Hangzhou Asian Para Games.
India’s whole medal depend after three days stood at 64 (15 gold, 20 silver, 29 bronze) they usually had been positioned at sixth spot, one down from Tuesday.
China continued to consolidate on the high of the tally with 300 medals (118 gold, 96 silver, 86 bronze), adopted by Iran (24, 30, 19), Japan (20, 21, 28), Thailand (20, 13, 30) and Uzbekistan (17, 17, 21).
It was the most efficient day for India, with 17 out of the 30 medals and all of the six gold coming from athletics.
The 25-year-old Antil 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 12 months.
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Another Indian, Pushpendra Singh, gained the bronze medal with a throw of 62.06m.
Antil, the reigning world champion, had gained gold in the lads’s javelin F64 occasion on the Tokyo Paralympic Games with a then world report throw of 68.55m.
The F64 class is for athletes with a leg amputation, who compete with prosthetics in a standing place.
Antil, who hails from Sonepat, misplaced his left leg under the knee after he was concerned in a motorcycle accident in 2015 when he was 17.
A graduate from Delhi’s Ramjas College, Antil was an able-bodied wrestler earlier than the accident. A para athlete in his village initiated him to javelin throw in 2018. He received 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 occasion — Indian Grand Prix 3 — in March 2021.
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Ankur Dhama turned the primary Indian to win two gold medals in a single version of the Asian Para Games as he clinched the highest spot in males’s T11 1500m race with a time of 4:27.70. He had additionally gained a gold in males’s males’s T11 5000m race on Tuesday.
Another Indian, Sundar Singh Gurjar, additionally set a brand new world report in the lads’s F46 javelin throw as he despatched his spear to a distance of 68.60m en path to profitable the gold. The earlier world report of 67.79m was in the identify of Dinesh Mudiyanselage Herath of Sri Lanka.
In reality, Indians swept all of the three medals in the lads’s F46 javelin throw occasion with Rinku (67.08m) and Ajeet Singh (63.52m) profitable silver and bronze respectively.
It was 1-2 for the Indians in the ladies’s T11 1500m occasion with Rakshitha Raju (5:21.45) and Killaka Lalitha (5:48.85) taking gold and silver respectively. Rakshitha had gained a gold in the identical occasion in the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta.
Haney and Nimisha Suresh Chakkungalparambil added gold medals in males’s F37/38 javelin throw and ladies’s T47 lengthy leap occasions.
Haney produced a Games report of 55.97m whereas Nimisha cleared 5.15m to take India’s gold medal tally to fifteen.
Pooja gained a silver in girls’s F54/55 discus throw with an effort 18.17m whereas Narayan Thakur and Shreyansh Trivedi picked up a bronze every in males’s T35 200m and T37 200m with instances of 29.83 and 25.26 respectively.
The Indians completed second and third 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 whereas Rana Soman (14.42) and Hokato Hotozhe Sema (13.94) completed second and third respectively.
In para desk tennis, Tokyo Paralympics silver medallist Bhavina Patel gained a bronze in girls’s singles Class 4 after she misplaced to Gu Xiaodan of China 1-3 (7-11 11-6 6-11 7-11) in the semifinal. Sandeep Dangi added one other bronze in males’s singles class 1.
India gained three medals in para archery — two silver and a bronze. Armless archers Sheetal Devi and Sarita gained a silver medal after shedding 150-152 to the Chinese pair of Lin Yueshan and Zhang Lu.
The different silver was gained by males’s doubles compound pair of Rakesh Kumar and Suraj Singh after they misplaced 150-155 to the Chinese duo of Ai Xinliang and He Zihao.
Harvinder Singh and Sahil gained a bronze in males’s doubles recurve occasion after beating the Thai pair of Hanreuchai Netsiri and Pornchai Phimthong 6-0. Harvinder had gained a bronze medal in the Tokyo Paralympics and a gold in the 2018 Asian Para Games.
In para badminton, India 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) — all of them after shedding their semifinal matches.
In para powerlifting, Zainab Khatun and Rajkumari gained a siver and a bronze respectively in the ladies’s 61kg class. Khatun lifted 85kg whereas Rajkumari had a profitable effort of 84kg.
