UAE’s Thekra Alkaabi competes within the Women’s 100m T71 remaining occasion on the World Para Athletics Championships 2025, at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in New Delhi, on September 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI
Alkaabi clocked 19.89 seconds to set the document and win the gold within the occasion wherein athletes use a three-wheeled operating body, with a saddle, physique assist and most notably, no pedals.
The 23-year-old bettered the sooner world document of 20.08 seconds which was within the title of Lithuania’s Bella Morkus set in July this 12 months. On Saturday (September 27, 2025), Morkus took the silver with a time of 21.53 seconds whereas Miriam Dominikowska of Poland received the bronze in 23.56 seconds.
Alkaabi’s earlier private finest in ladies’s 100m T71 was 23.58 seconds. She had received a bronze in F32 membership throw occasion within the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Para Games.
T71 is for body runner observe athletes who’ve motion extremely affected within the trunk and legs.
Frame operating, beforehand referred to as Race Running, is an adaptive athletic self-discipline, primarily for individuals with extreme coordination and stability impairments resembling cerebral palsy. The wheeled body allows the legs to propel the athlete whereas serving to to help stability.
The body operating occasions of T71 and T72 classifications had been launched as official observe disciplines by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in 2017. But it was not included within the roster of each the 2021 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Paralympics.
The 2023 and 2024 editions of World Para Athletics Championships didn’t have T71 occasion however each had T72 class.
T72 classification is for body runner observe athletes who’ve motion and coordination reasonably affected within the trunk and legs.
The gold within the ladies’s lengthy soar T37 was expectedly received by world document holder Chinese Wen Xiaoyan with a meet document distance of 5.32m. She bettered her personal earlier meet document of 5.22m which she had set whereas profitable gold within the 2019 version of the championships.
She holds the world document of 5.45m which she had set in the course of the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Para Games.
Anais Angeline of Mauritius received the silver with 4.59m whereas Jaleen Roberts of USA was third with 4.53m.
T37 classification is supposed for athletes with cerebral palsy affecting coordination.
In the ladies’s shot F41 occasion, meant for brief stature athletes, Ariza Buitrago Mayerli of Colombia surprised world document holder in addition to a number of Paralympics and Para World Championships gold medallist Raoua Tlili of Tunisia to win the gold.
Mayerli despatched the iron ball to a distance of 10.21m whereas Kubaro Khakimova of Uzbekistan took the silver with 10.17m. Tlili, who holds the world document of 10.55m, received the bronze with 9.96m.
Noelle Roorda of the Netherlands received her first world championships gold in ladies’s javelin throw F46 with an effort of 43.74m whereas Shahinakhon Yigitalieva of Uzbekistan and Hollie Arnold of Great Britain took the silver and bronze with 41.97m and 41.94m respectively.
India’s Bhavanaben Ajabaji Chaudhary completed eighth within the occasion with a 35.34m throw.
F46 classification is supposed for athletes with reasonably affected motion in a single or each arms or the absence of limbs.
Meanwhile, defending champion Deepthi Jeevanji of India certified for the ultimate of the ladies’s 400m T20 occasion with a season-best effort.
The 22-year-old from Telangana clocked 58.35 seconds to high the second warmth of the opening spherical within the occasion meant for athletes with mental disabilities.
Published – September 27, 2025 03:31 pm IST
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