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NEW DELHI: Sachin Sarjerao Khilari secured India’s eighth quota for the upcoming Paralympics by successful the gold medal within the males’s shot put F46 occasion on the Para Athletics World Championships in Paris on Friday.
Sachin had much more purpose to have a good time as he not solely clinched the gold but in addition set a brand new Asian document with a formidable throw of 16.21m.
Joshua Cinnamo from the USA narrowly missed out on the highest spot, falling wanting Sachin’s mark by simply 0.21m, incomes himself the silver medal. Kerwin Noemdo from South Africa took house the bronze with a commendable effort of 15.30m.
Sachin had much more purpose to have a good time as he not solely clinched the gold but in addition set a brand new Asian document with a formidable throw of 16.21m.
Joshua Cinnamo from the USA narrowly missed out on the highest spot, falling wanting Sachin’s mark by simply 0.21m, incomes himself the silver medal. Kerwin Noemdo from South Africa took house the bronze with a commendable effort of 15.30m.
On Thursday, Paralympic gold medallist Sumit Antil scripted a world document in F64 javelin throw with a finest try of 70.83m on the World Championship. Antil bettered his personal document of 70.17m he had registered on the Indian Open Nationwide Para Athletics Championships in Could final 12 months.
Antil had received gold within the males’s javelin F64/44 closing with a world document throw of 68.55m on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Video games.
The highest-four ranked athletes on the World Para Athletics Championships in every of the person medal occasions qualify for the 2024 Paralympics.
(With inputs from PTI)
