Tokyo Paralympics: Yogesh Kathuniya Wins Silver In Men’s Discus Throw (F56)

Discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya clinched a silver medal within the males’s F56 occasion within the Paralympics right here on Monday as athletics remained India’s comfortable searching floor on the Video games. The 24-year-old, a B.Com graduate from New Delhi’s Kirorimal Faculty, despatched the disc to a greatest distance of 44.38m in his sixth and final try to clinch the silver. On Sunday, India had picked up a silver (excessive leap) and a bronze (discus throw), which is on maintain as a consequence of a protest. Son of an Military man, Kathuniya suffered a paralytic assault on the age of eight which left him with coordination impairments in his limbs.

Brazil’s defending champion, reigning world champion and world file holder Claudiney Batista dos Santos received the gold with a greatest throw of 45.59m whereas Leonardo Diaz Aldana (43.36m) of Cuba took the bronze.

In F56 classification, athletes have full arm and trunk muscle energy. Pelvic stability is offered by some to full capacity to press the knees collectively.

Kathuniya received a bronze medal within the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai with a greatest throw of 42.51m which additionally booked him a Tokyo berth.

Promoted

It was throughout his time on the KMC that his potential was seen by a number of coaches and he quickly got here below the tutelage of Satyapal Singh on the Jawaharlal Nehuru Stadium.

A number of years later, he got here below the steering of coach Naval Singh. He created a world file in F36 class in his first ever worldwide competitors in 2018 on the Para-athletics Grand Prix in Berlin.