HIGHEST EVER MEDALS TALLY FOR INDIA AT WORLD PARA ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIP

INDIA CREATES HISTORY - FINISHES WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF MEDALS EVER

World Para Athletics Championship came to an end yesterday. 24 Male and 5 Female Indian athletes participated across 23 events. Though Rio Medalist Deepa Malik missed out on a medal and Rio Gold winning High Jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu couldn't participate owing to injury, it was a happy outing otherwise for the rest of the squad. India finished the 2017 edition of World Para Athletics Championship at 34th position in the medals tally bagging 5 medals in total, including 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze. It is the best ever performance from the Indian team, both in terms of number of medals won and finishing highest ever in the medals tally. It is also the 2nd time that India have won a Gold Medal in World Championship, the previous one being Devendra Jhajharia in 2013 in F46 Javelin Throw. Since the beginning of World Para Athletics Championship in 2011, India have won 1 Silver in 2011(finishing 55th); 1 Gold in 2013(finishing 36th) and 2 Silver in 2015(finishing 50th).



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INDIAN MEDAL WINNERS(2017)

A)F46 Javelin Throw:

Sundar Singh Gurjar won GOLD and became World Champion with highest throw of 60.36m in 4th attempt. It is his PB and Asia Record too. Sundar thus becomes second Indian Para Athlete to win GOLD at World Para Athletic Championships after Devendra Jhajharia who won for the first time in F46 Javelin at 2013 Para World Championships.

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   INDIAN MEDAL WINNERS AT 2017 PARA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

B)F51 Club Throw:

Amit Kumar Saroha won SILVER with 30.25m in 3rd attempt. Its his PB and Asia Record too.



READ | AMIT KUMAR SAROHA WINS SILVER IN CLUB THROW



C)F55 Discus Throw:

Karamjyoti Dalal won BRONZE with 19.02m in 3rd attempt. A season best(SB) performance from her.

Though she was initially declared fourth, Chinese Yang Liwan's post-event disqualification resulted in Karamjyoti being deemed the bronze medallist.



D)T42 High Jump:

Sharad Kumar won SILVER with highest jump of 1.84m. Sharad Kumar went passed his life time best of 1.80 m and stood a neck to neck competition with USA's Sam Grewe. Sharad cleared  1.84m to set a new PB for himself and also crossed the previous championship record. Sharad couldn't clear the 1.86m mark while USA’s Grewe did.



E)T42 High Jump:

Varun Singh Bhati won BRONZE with 1.77m jump.



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JUST MEDAL MISSES:

A)F46 Javelin Throw

Rink Hooda(4th)-55.12m in 3rd attempt-PB



B)T44 400m:

Vinay Kumar Lal(4th)- PB with timing of 56.59s



C)F42 Discus Throw:

Jaideep(4th)-37.53m

OTHER PB PERFORMANCES:

A)F44 Discus Throw:

Pardeep(9th)-46.45m PB



B)T47 Triple Jump:

Amit Kumar(5th)-13.38m in 2nd attempt-PB



C)F46 Shot-Put:

Mohd. Yasser(7th)-13.36 in last attempt-PB



D)F44 Javelin Throw:

R.T Prasanna Kumar(9th)- 50.09m in 2nd attempt-PB



E)F37 Javelin Throw:

Deepak Singh(5th)-37.15m in 5th attempt-PB



Overall, a successful and happy outing for Indian athletes in 2017 edition of World Para Athletics Championship