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Ruzhdi Breaks F55 Shot Put World Record for Sixth Straight World Title in New Delhi

His record capped a day of fast marks on New Delhi’s new Mondo track.

Overview

  • Bulgaria’s 34-year-old threw 12.94m on his final attempt to surpass his 12.68m mark from Paris 2023 in the seated F55 class.
  • Serbia’s Nebojsa Duric earned silver with a personal best of 12.52m, and Poland’s Lech Stoltman took bronze at 12.02m.
  • The morning session delivered world records from Abdul Latif Romly in the T20 long jump at 7.67m and Volodymyr Ponomarenko in T12 shot put at 17.39m, with Romly completing a world-title hat-trick.
  • Norway’s Salum Ageze Kashafali lowered the T12 100m world record to 10.42, and meet records fell to Marcel Hug in the men’s 5000m T54 and Hannah Cockroft in the women’s 400m T34.
  • Nassima Saifi won the women’s discus F57 with 34.54m and Catherine Debrunner claimed the women’s 5000m T54 in 12:18.29, as India ended Day 2 without a medal.