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India Closes Para Athletics Worlds With Record 22 Medals, Finishes 10th

A starter-gun glitch prompted a 100m T35 re-run that ended with Preeti Pal’s season-best silver.

Overview

  • Hosts concluded the New Delhi championships with 22 medals — 6 gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze — after four podiums on the final day.
  • Preeti Pal secured silver in the women’s 100m T35 in 14.33 seconds after officials ordered a re-run due to a double click from the starting gun.
  • Simran Sharma took silver in the women’s 200m T12 following the disqualification of the initial winner under Rule R7.10.4 regarding guide-runner tether use.
  • Navdeep Singh won silver in the men’s javelin F41 with a season-best 45.46m, and Sandeep earned bronze in the men’s 200m T44 with a personal best of 23.60 seconds.
  • The Jury of Appeal upheld Brazilian Paulino dos Santos Thiago’s F57 shot put silver, leaving India’s Soman Rana with bronze, as the event featured over 1,000 athletes across 186 medal events at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.