World Para Athletics | Nishad, Simran make it a golden day for India

Nishad Kumar broke the jinx, profitable his maiden world title after a sequence of second-placed finishes in type with a brand new Asian report of two.14m, on a productive day seven of the World Para Athletics Championships right here on Friday. On the monitor, Simran Sharma retained her title within the 100m T12 with a brand new private greatest (PB) of 11.95 seconds.

On a day stray canine assaults on athletes and officers took the highlight, Nishad, runner-up within the excessive bounce T47 on the Tokyo and Paris Paralympics and the final two World championships in 2023 and 2024, regarded assured each time he took off and had little bother clearing all of the pre-set marks in his first try itself. Once the gold was assured, he aimed for the world report however faltered at 2.18m.

In the method, he lastly received the higher of three-time world and paralympic champion Roderick Townsend of USA, who began at 2.03m however that was the one mark he cleared right here to complete third behind Turkey’s Abdullah Ilgaz.

Simran, in the meantime, had little competitors enhancing on her PB, going beneath the 12-second mark for the primary time ever. Running with a brand new information in Umar Saifi of their first worldwide competitors collectively, Simran grew to become India’s sixth gold and fifteenth medallist within the ongoing competitors.

Bronze for Preethi, Pradeep

Preethi Pal, nonetheless, may solely handle a season’s better of 30.03s for a second world bronze within the 200m T35 whereas Pardeep Kumar completed third within the discus throw F64. Swiss Catherine Debrunner, in the meantime, accomplished her quintet of world titles within the 400m T53, profitable her fifth gold in as many occasions right here to reaffirm her legendary standing.

The outcomes: Men: 100m T11: Athanasios Ghavelas with information Dimitrios Chrysafis (Gre, 10.96s); 100m T36: Kirill Glazyrin (NPA, 11.73s); 100m T54: Athiwat Paeng-Nuea (Tha, 13.66s); 400m T12: Fakhriddin Khamraev (Uzb, 50.11s); 400 T13: Max Marzillier (Ger, 49s); 800 T53: Pongsakorn Paeyo (Tha, 1:35.76); Long Jump T37: Brian Impellizzeri (Arg, 6.63m); Long Jump T64: Markus Rehm (Ger, 8.43m); High Jump T47: Nishad Kumar (2.14m), Ram Pal (fifth, 1.94m); Discus Throw F11: Hassan Bajoulvand (Iri, 41.70m), Monu Ghangas (ninth, 32.65m); Discus Throw F44: Andres Neira (Col, 60.26m), Sagar Thayat (4th, 51.93m), Devender Kumar (sixth, 50.12m), Pardeep (eighth, 46.14m); Discus Throw F64: Ivan Katanusic (Cro, 55.12m), Pardeep Kumar (third, 46.23m), Sharvan Kumar (fifth, 44.11m); Shot Put F35: Seyed Javanmardi (Iri, 17.17m); Shot Put F46: Greg Stewart (Can, 16.68m), Sachin Khilari (4th, 15.03m), Mohd. Yasser (sixth, 14.73m), Parveen (eighth, 14.24m).

Women: 100m T12: Simran Sharma with information Umar Saifi (11.95s); 200m T35: Qianqian Guo (Chn, 29.50s), Preeti Pal (third, 30.03s) SB; 200m T36: Danielle Aitchison (Nzl, 27.18s); 400m T53: Catherine Debrunner (Sui, 50.58s); 400m T54: Lea Bayekula (Bel, 50.99s); Long Jump T64: Fleur Jong (Ned, 6.81m); Shot Put F33: Svetlana Krivenok (NPA, 8.14m) new CR; Shot Put F44: Arelle Middleton (USA, 12.95m); Shot Put F64: Faustyna Kotlowska (Pol, 10,88m), Dayawanti (sixth, 7.90m) PB; Discus Throw F41: Raoua Tlili (Tun, 33.81m).