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Highlights Tokyo Paralympics 2021 ( Day 6 ): It was a golden day for India at the Paralympics as they produced as many as 7 medals for the country, including two golds courtesy Avani and Sumit. Shooter Avani Lekhara on 30th August became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in the Tokyo Paralympic Games. The 19-year-old got a gold, India’s first at Tokyo 2020, in women’s 10m Air Rifle SH1 with a world record score of 249.6 in the finals on Monday.
India’s tryst with Javelin throw continued in Tokyo as another athlete clinched a medal on day 6 of the Paralympic Games on Monday. India’s Sumit Antil summed up the day perfectly by winning the gold in men’s javelin (F64) at the Tokyo Paralympics with a new world record throw of 68.55m. This is India’s second gold medal in Tokyo Paralympics 2020.
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Discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya completed second as India surpassed its best-ever medal tally at the Games on 30th. The 24-year-old, a B.Com graduate from New Delhi’s Kirorimal College, hurled the disc to the best distance of 44.38m in his sixth and final attempt to secure the silver.
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Bhavinaben Patel on Sunday became only the second Indian woman to win a medal at the Paralympics after she signed off with a celebrated silver following a 0-3 loss to world number one Chinese paddler Ying Zhou in the women’s singles table tennis class 4 finals.
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Two-time gold-winning javelin throw expert Devendra Jhajharia closed with a breathtaking third Paralympic medal, a silver this time. The 40-year-old Jhajahria, already India’s greatest Paralympian after winning gold medals in the 2004 and 2016 Games, trailed off a new personal best throw of 64.35m for the silver. Jhajahria, who lost his left hand after accidentally touching an electric wire while climbing a tree at the age of eight, surpassed his own earlier world record (63.97m).
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Sundar Singh Gurjar also cut in with a bronze, perfecting behind Jhajharia in the men’s javelin throw F46 final. The 25-year-old Gurjar, who lost his left hand in 2015 after a metal sheet fell on him at his friend’s house, was third with a best effort of 64.01m. The Jaipur-based Gurjar had won gold in the 2017 and 2019 World Para Athletics Championships. He had also acquired a silver in the 2018 Jakarta Para Asian Games.
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High jumper Nishad Kumar gripped a silver with an Asian record on Sunday. The 21-year-old Nishad, who is a farmer’s son in Himachal Pradesh’s Amb town, cleared 2.06m to win the silver in the T47 class. Nishad, whose right hand got cut by a grass-cutting machine at his family’s farm when he was an eight-year-old boy, cleared the same height of 2.06m with American Dallas Wise.
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