Ekta Bhyan wins club throw Asian Para Games gold
Bhyan won India’s fourth gold at the Asian Para Games by topping the women’s club throw event here on Tuesday.
Bhyan produced her best throw in her fourth attempt, 16.02 metres, winning the F32/51 event ahead of United Arab Emirates’ Alkaabi Thekra, who threw 15.75m.
The F32/51 class features athletes with significant impairment in hand function.
Bhyan had come into the competition on the back of a gold in the Indian Open Para Athletics Championships earlier this year.
India also secured three bronze medals on Tuesday courtesy Jayanti Behera, Anandan Gunasekaran and Monu Ghangas.
Ghangas finished third in men’s shot put F11, which covers vision impairment, and Gunasekaran in men’s 200m T44/62/64 class, which deals with impairment in foot, ankle and/or lower leg but the athletes compete without prothesis.
Behera bagged the bronze in the women’s 200m T45/46/47 event which is for athletes with limb impairment.
On Monday, Javelin thrower Sandeep Chaudhary produced a stunning world record effort as India bagged 11 medals, including three gold, on a productive day.
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CALL ON RETIREMENT LATER: JHAJHARIA
India’s greatest Para athlete Devendra Jhajharia says a nagging shoulder injury might force him to consider retirement after the ongoing Asian Para Games. The 37-year-old javelin thrower won gold at the 2004 Athens Paralympics before repeating the feat with a world record effort in Rio 2016.
“I will consider retirement after the Asian Para Games, once I discuss with my family, coaches and friends. The thought has come to my mind as I have been dealing with a shoulder injury for the past one and a half years,” Jhajharia said. “My shoulder has a tear and I have not been able to recover from that fully. That is why I am thinking whether I should continue or not. For now I have my event on 11th (October) and only when I get back to India I will think about retirement,” said the champion athlete.
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