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Kobe, May 21 (Hindustan Reporter) Indian athletes continued to excel at the 2024 World Para-Athletics Championships with Bhagyashree Jadhav securing a silver medal in the women's shot put F34 here on Monday.
Top scheme athlete Bhagyashree won the silver medal in the final with a best throw of 7.52 metres. With this, India now has five medals in this competition, which includes one gold, three silver and one bronze medal.
After tossing the iron ball 7.56m in the first turn, Bhagyashree made three foul throws and then managed a throw of 6.82m and followed it up with an effort of 7.52. Lijuan Zhou of China won the gold medal with a best throw of 8.48 metres, while Saida Amoudi of Morocco won the bronze medal with a throw of 7.02 metres.
This is the third medal that India won on Monday. Earlier in the day, 20-year-old Deepti Jeevanji broke the world record in the women's 400m T20 and won India's first gold medal at the World Para-Athletics Championships. Deepti clocked 55.07 seconds, breaking American Breanna Clark's earlier world record of 55.12 seconds, which she had set in Paris last year.
Top para discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya won a silver medal in the F56 category. Kathuniya achieved a remarkable throw of 41.80 metres, placing him second behind Brazil's Claudni Batista dos Santos, who won the gold medal. The bronze medal went to Dusan Laczow of Slovakia.