Ekta Bhyan competes within the Girls’s Membership Throw F51 last throughout day 5 of the World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe on Might 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 girls’ F51 membership throw competitors on the World Para Athletic Championships in Kobe.
A day after Deepthi Jeevanji clinched the gold medal in girls’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 gained the bronze with a rating of 12.70m.
Ekta, a Haryana Civil Companies (HCS) officer, had gained 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 gained 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 needed to pursue a profession in medical stream however a tragic accident in 2003 minimize 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 damage 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 file time of 55.07 seconds within the girls’s 400m T20 class race en path to her gold medal.
On Sunday, Nishad Kumar (T47 excessive leap) and 200m runner Preethi Pal (T35 200m race) gained a silver and bronze respectively.
India’s tally has now swelled to 5 medals — 2 gold, 3 silver and a pair of bronze.
The championships will proceed until Might 25.
Paralympics champion Sumit Antil defends F64 javelin world titlev
Reigning Paralympics champion Sumit Antil on Might 21 defended his F64 javelin throw world title whereas Thangavelu Mariyappan and Ekta Bhyan additionally grabbed gold medals of their respective excessive leap and membership throw occasions on a productive day for India within the World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe.
Antil, who had gained 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 gained 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 leap with a championship file of 1.88m.
