Ruzhdi Extends Reign With Sixth F55 Shot Put World Title, Breaks His Record in New Delhi
A wave of new marks across classes highlighted the second day’s surge in performance at the World Para Athletics Championships.
Overview
- The Bulgarian threw 12.94m on his sixth attempt to better his 12.68m mark from Paris 2023 in the seated F55 event.
- Serbia’s Nebojsa Duric took silver with a personal-best 12.52m, with Poland’s Lech Stoltman earning bronze at 12.02m.
- Earlier, Malaysia’s Abdul Latif Romly set a men’s long jump T20 world record at 7.67m, and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Ponomarenko reset the men’s shot put T12 mark at 17.39m.
- Norway’s Salum Ageze Kashafali lowered the men’s 100m T12 world record to 10.42 seconds.
- Championship records fell to Marcel Hug in the men’s 5000m T54 and Hannah Cockroft in the women’s 400m T34, as India finished day two without a medal.