Yogesh Kathuniya competes throughout the males’s discus throw F56 Remaining on day 5 of the Paris 2024 Summer season Paralympic Video games at Stade de France in Paris, on September 2, 2024.
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A second consecutive silver medal on the Paralympics will not be a feat Indian discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya is just too blissful about as he feels he’s caught with second-place end in a sequence of main occasions.
The 27-year-old from Haryana produced a season finest effort of 42.22m to complete second on the F-56 discus podium on the Paris Olympics on Monday.
However Kathuniya wasn’t glad together with his efficiency and he vowed to raised the color of his medal within the subsequent main event.
“Occasion was okay, I acquired a silver. I’ll work more durable to alter the color of the medal,” a somewhat dissatisfied Kathuniya stated after his occasion.
“For a while, I am successful silver solely be it Tokyo (Paralympics) or right this moment, World Championships or Asian Video games..in all places I am successful silver. Gaadi atak gayi hai (I am caught on silver). I feel I have to work more durable. Now I need gold.” The silver on Monday is Kathuniya’s fifth consecutive second place end for the reason that Tokyo Paralympics in 2021.
He had picked up silver medals on the 2023, 2024 World Championships in addition to within the Asian Para Video games final 12 months.
Kathuniya, who developed the Guillain-Barre syndrome, a uncommon autoimmune situation which causes numbness, tingling and muscle weak point that may progress to paralysis, was wheelchair sure earlier than his mom learnt physiotherapy to assist him regain muscle power to stroll once more.
Kathuniya’s efficiency on the Stade de France was inferior to the 44.38m effort he produced at Tokyo three years again and likewise under his private better of 48m which he produced on the Indian Open, which is, although, not a World Para Athletics occasion.
“At this time was not my day, my efficiency is constant however right this moment I do not really feel that blissful. My household shall be blissful, they should be celebrating.
“My coach has helped me quite a bit. I did very effectively in coaching however sadly I wasn’t capable of replicate it right this moment,” he stated.
The F56 class is supposed for athletes who compete in subject occasions from a seated place. Totally different athletes, together with these with amputations and spinal wire accidents, compete on this class.
