The 25-year-old rewrote his own world record with a throw of 73.29m to win gold in the F64 javelin event
Sumit Antil rewrote his world record with a gold medal-winning throw of 73.29m in the javelin F64 event as Indian para athletes bagged a stunning 30 medals on Wednesday to mark another productive day at the Asian Para Games in Hangzhou. The F64 category is for athletes with a leg amputation who compete with prosthetics in a standing position.
India's total medal count after three competition days stood at 64 (15 gold, 20 silver, 29 bronze) and they were placed at the sixth spot. Hosts China continued to dominate the Para Games, their medals tally touching the 300 mark (118 gold, 96 silver, 86 bronze). Iran (74 medals), Japan (69 medals), Thailand (63 medals), and Uzbekistan (55 medals) were placed ahead of India. Thailand and Uzbekistan leapfrogged India on account of a higher gold count despite having a lower overall medal tally.
Out of the 30 medals that India won on Wednesday, 17 — including all six golds — came from athletics with Antil leading the charge with a record-breaking show.
The 25-year-old reigning Paralympics champion broke his own world record on his third throw. His series read an impressive 66.22m, 70.48m, and 73.29m. He fouled on his fourth attempt and didn't take the last two throws, but by then, a gold medal and the Asian, Games, and World records had been comfortably secured.
Such was Antil's dominance that the silver medallist from Sri Lanka, S Arachchige Kodithuwakku's best effort (64.09) landed 9.2m shy of the winning throw. Pushpendra Singh won the bronze with a throw of 62.06m while another Indian, Sandeep, finished fourth with a throw of 61.84m in the six-man final.
A serial record breaker, Antil is the only para javelin thrower in the world to breach the 70m barrier, a mark he hit twice in Hangzhou.
His record-breaking streak began at the Paris Grand Prix in 2019 where he threw 61.32m and bettered it the same year with an effort of 62.88m in the World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai. At the Tokyo Paralympics, Antil broke the world record thrice, eventually winning the gold with a 68.55m throw.
Antil got down to record-breaking business at the Indian Open Para Athletics Championships last year where his effort of 68.62m bettered his Tokyo mark. Antil arrived in Hangzhgou on the back of another world record — a 70.83m effort at the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris this July — and while his winning the gold appeared almost pre-ordained, his breaking another world record underscored Antil's appetite for success.
Hailing from Sonepat in Haryana, Antil was training to be a wrestler before he met with an accident in 2015 that left him hospitalised for 53 days and resulted in the amputation of his left leg. Unlike most F64 athletes, Antil doesn't compete with a blade but uses a prosthetic foot.
“I feel like the blades were consuming the power that I wanted to put on the equipment. Then I switched to the normal foot. I think that this was great for me because I read my body and what my body actually requires, rather than watching videos of other Para athletes," he told the International Paralympic Committee in an earlier interview.
Another Indian, Sundar Singh Gurjar, also set a new world record in the men's F46 javelin with a throw of 68.60m en route a gold medal. In fact, Indians swept all three medals in the event with Rinku (67.08m) and Ajeet Singh (63.52m) completing the top three.
Ankur's double delight
Ankur Dhama became the first Indian to win two gold medals in a single edition of the Asian Para Games as he followed his T11 5000m win with a top finish in the T11 1500m race with a time of 4:27.70.
It was 1-2 for the Indians in the women's T11 1500m event with Rakshitha Raju (5:21.45) and Killaka Lalitha (5:48.85) taking gold and silver respectively. Rakshitha had won a gold in the same event in the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta.
Haney and Nimisha Suresh Chakkungalparambil added gold medals in men's F37/38 javelin throw and women's T47 long jump events. Haney produced a Games record of 55.97m while Nimisha cleared 5.15m.
In women's F54/55 discus throw, Pooja won a silver with an effort of 18.17m while Narayan Thakur and Shreyansh Trivedi picked up a bronze each in men's T35 200m and T37 200m with times of 29.83 and 25.26 respectively.
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