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Katie Pegg Claims F46 Shot Put Bronze With Personal Best in New Delhi

The 21-year-old delivered a personal-best 12.76m on her final attempt to secure Canada's first field-event medal in New Delhi.

Overview

  • Uzbekistan’s Karomat Omonova won gold at 13.07m, with New Zealand’s Holly Robinson taking silver at 12.86m.
  • Pegg exceeded 12 metres on five of six throws, surpassing a mark she had not previously reached in competition.
  • The F46 classification features athletes with upper-limb impairments; Pegg was born without a radial bone in her right forearm.
  • The result brought Team Canada to three bronze medals heading into the final three days of the World Para Athletics Championships.
  • Canada’s Amanda Rummery placed fourth in the T47 400m, Jesse Zesseu finished sixth in the F37 discus, and Nandini Sharma was eighth in the T54 100m.