Pranav Soorma, Dharambir and Amit Kumar who gained all of the three medals in males’s membership throw F51 occasion. Picture: ianuragthakur
India swept all of the three medals in males’s membership throw F51 occasion with Pranav Soorma profitable the gold on the opening day of athletics competitors on the Hangzhou Asian Para Video games right here on October 23.
The 29-year-old Soorma broke the Asian Para Video games document with an effort of 30.01m to clinch the gold whereas Dharambir (28.76m) and Amit Kumar (26.93m) have been second and third respectively.
There have been solely 4 rivals within the occasion with Saudi Arabia’s Radhi Ali Alharthi ending final with a throw of 23.77m.
Soorma suffered a spinal twine damage after an accident when he was 16-years-old and that left him paralysed. However that didn’t deter him from taking over para sports activities, and he gained a silver medal on the 2019 Beijing World Para Athletics Grand Prix occasion.
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The F51 membership throw occasion is for athletes who’ve motion affected to a excessive diploma within the trunk, legs and fingers. All of the rivals compete whereas seated and depend on their shoulders and arm to generate energy.
Three Indians additionally completed 1-2-Three within the males’s excessive bounce T63 class however solely gold and silver have been awarded below Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) guidelines.
The three Indians have been the one rivals within the occasion and below APC’s ‘minus one rule’, Shailesh Kumar gained the gold with an Asian Para Video games document bounce of 1.82m whereas Mariyappan Thangavelu (1.80m) took the silver.
Govindbhai Ramsingbhai Padhiyar (1.78m) can not win a bronze below APC guidelines.
No less than 4 athletes should be within the fray to award all of the three medals. “In distinctive case the place solely three or fewer athletes compete, medal will probably be awarded following the ‘minus-one rule’. For instance, if an occasion is finalised by 2 athletes/groups solely, solely gold medal will probably be allotted,” based on the APC rule ebook.
The 23-year-old Kumar had gained a silver within the World Para Athletics Championships earlier this yr whereas Thangavelu was fourth. Each have certified for subsequent yr’s Paris Paralympics.
Thangavelu had gained a gold medal in excessive bounce T42 class in 2016 Rio Paralympics and silver in T63 in Tokyo Paralympics.
In T63 classification, athletes with a single leg above the knee amputation compete with a prosthesis.
Nishad Kumar gained India’s third gold of the day in males’s excessive bounce T47 class as he cleared a peak of two.02m whereas compatriot Ram Pal took the bronze with an effort of 1.94m.
The T47 classification is supposed for athletes with a under elbow or wrist amputation or impairment.
Monu Ghangas gained the bronze medal in males’s shot put F11 occasion with an effort of 12.33m.
In girls’s canoe VL2 occasion, Prachi Yadav gained a silver with a time of 1:03.147.
In para sports activities, athletes are labeled based on the diploma of exercise limitation ensuing from the impairment. Classification determines which athletes are eligible to compete in a specific occasion. That is executed to make sure truthful competitors.