🃏Club thrower Ekta Bhyan won India's fourth gold at the Asian Para Games 2018 by topping the women's F32/51 event with a best throw of 16.02m in her fourth attempt at Jakarta on Tuesday.
𒐪On Monday, Javelin thrower Sandeep Chaudhary produced a stunning world record effort as India bagged 11 medals, including three gold, on a productive day.
🃏Club thrower Ekta Bhyan won India's fourth gold at the Asian Para Games 2018 by topping the women's F32/51 event with a best throw of 16.02m in her fourth attempt at Jakarta on Tuesday.
🌌Coming into the competition on the back of a gold in the Indian Open Para Athletics Championship earlier this year, she beat UAE's Alkaabi Thekra, who threw 15.75m, to the gold medal.
🌃The F32/51 class features athletes with significant impairment in hand function.
🍸India also secured three bronze medals on Tuesday courtesy Jayanti Behera, Anandan Gunasekaran and Monu Ghangas.
♊Ghangas finished third in the men's shot put F11, which covers vision impairment, and Gunasekaran in men's 200m T44/62/64 class, which deals with impairment in the foot, ankle and/or lower leg but the athletes compete without a prosthesis.
🌱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.
(PTI)