{"id":115651,"date":"2024-05-25T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T10:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/25\/world-para-athletics-championships-simran-sharma-wins-indias-sixth-gold\/"},"modified":"2024-05-25T10:13:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T10:13:45","slug":"world-para-athletics-championships-simran-sharma-wins-indias-sixth-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/25\/world-para-athletics-championships-simran-sharma-wins-indias-sixth-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"World Para Athletics Championships: Simran Sharma wins India’s sixth gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSimran Sharma. Photo: X\/@ParalympicIndia\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Simran Sharma won gold medal in women’s 200m T12 event with a personal best time of 24.95 seconds to fetch the sixth yellow metal for India on the final day of the World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe on May 24.<\/p>\n

Simran shaved off around one-fifth of a second from her earlier personal best of 25.16 seconds to win the gold.<\/p>\n

Darlenys De La Severino (25.08) of Dominica and Lorraine Gomes De Aguiar (25.40) won the silver and bronze respectively.<\/p>\n

The T12 category is meant for athletes who have vision impairment.<\/p>\n

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India now has 15 medals (6 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) to be at sixth place in the standings.<\/p>\n

Earlier, India were awarded the silver and bronze in men’s javelin throw F46 event after winning a protest against second-place finisher Dinesh Priyantha Herath of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

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\nSimran Sharma wins gold in the Women\u2019s 200m T12 final at the World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe on May 24, 2024. Photo: X\/@ParalympicIndia\n<\/p>\n

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Rinku Hooda and Ajeet Singh on Friday finished third and fourth respectively in the men’s F46 javelin throw final but the result was put on hold after India lodged a protest that Herath was ineligible to compete in the category.<\/p>\n

In para sports, athletes are classified into groups with similar levels of physical ability to allow fair competition.<\/p>\n

The F46 classification is for athletes with arm deficiency, impaired muscle power or impaired passive range of movement in arms, with athletes competing in a standing position.<\/p>\n

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“He (Herath) was not classified properly and did not belong to the F 46 category,” said an official from the Paralympic Committee of India.<\/p>\n

India got a favourable decision and Herath was disqualified. Rinku, who originally finished third with an effort of 62.77m, was upgraded to second while Ajeet (62.11m) was handed a bronze.<\/p>\n

“We won the protest against the Sri Lankan, who had also won gold at the Tokyo Paralympics, that he should not have been eligible to compete,\u201d head coach Satyanarayan told PTI.<\/p>\n

“Now, Rinku is the silver winner from the original third and Ajeet was upgraded from fourth place to bronze.” This is India’s best-ever performance, having surpassed the earlier record medal haul of 10 medals (3 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze) it won in the 2023 edition in Paris. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n