World Para Athletic Championships: Ekta wins gold with season’s finest effort in membership throw

Ekta Bhyan competes within the Ladies’s Membership Throw F51 last throughout day 5 of the World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe on Could 21, 2024.
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India’s Ekta Bhyan secured the gold medal with a season’s finest throw of 20.12m within the ladies’ F51 membership throw competitors on the World Para Athletic Championships in Kobe.

A day after Deepthi Jeevanji clinched the gold medal in ladies’s 400m T20 class race, Indian athletes continued their spectacular run with Ekta producing the products to complete within the high, whereas Kashish Lakra took the silver with an effort of 14.56m. Nadjet Boucherf of Algeria received the bronze with a rating of 12.70m.

Ekta, a Haryana Civil Providers (HCS) officer, had received a bronze medal within the Asian Para Video games China.

The 38-year-old, who took up sports activities after her choice within the Haryana authorities as HCS officer, additionally received gold medal within the membership throw occasion on the 2018 Asian Para Video games in Jakarta. She had additionally certified for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

Ekta wished to pursue a profession in medical stream however a tragic accident in 2003 lower brief her dream. The accident occurred close to Kundli in Sonepat district when a truck overturned on her cab on the Delhi–Haryana border.

Whereas she suffered quadriplegic spinal twine harm and is wheelchair-bound ever since, six different college students had been killed within the accident.

On Monday, Deepthi, Para Asian Video games gold medallist, had smashed a world document time of 55.07 seconds within the ladies’s 400m T20 class race en path to her gold medal.

On Sunday, Nishad Kumar (T47 excessive soar) and 200m runner Preethi Pal (T35 200m race) received a silver and bronze respectively.

India’s tally has now swelled to 5 medals — 2 gold, 3 silver and a couple of bronze.

The championships will proceed until Could 25.

Paralympics champion Sumit Antil defends F64 javelin world titlev

Reigning Paralympics champion Sumit Antil on Could 21 defended his F64 javelin throw world title whereas Thangavelu Mariyappan and Ekta Bhyan additionally grabbed gold medals of their respective excessive soar and membership throw occasions on a productive day for India within the World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe.

Antil, who had received gold within the Tokyo Paralympics and 2023 World Para Athletics Championships, despatched his spear to a distance of 69.50m to face on high of the rostrum.

Compatriot Sandeep received the bronze medal in the identical occasion with a throw of 60.41m.

Tokyo Paralympics silver winner Thangavelu Mariyappan then grabbed the gold in T63 excessive soar with a championship document of 1.88m.