 "Yogesh Kathuniya repeated his silver medal winning feat from Tokyo at the Paris Paralympics. Image: Instagram")
Yogesh Kathuniya won a silver medal in men’s discus throw F56 at the Paris Paralympics on Monday (August 2). It extended India’s tally to eight medals at the Games in the French capital.
In the final, the Tokyo Paralympics silver medallist Kathuniya threw a distance of 42.22m to register his season’s best.
Brazil’s Batista dos Santos Claudiney clinched the gold medal with a throw of 46.86m and the bronze went to Greece’s Konstantinos Tzounis (41.32m).
Kathuniya, fourth in the order of athletes, threw a series of 42.22m, 41.50m, 41.55m, 40.33m, 40.89m and 39.68m in his six attempts. But the first one carried him to the second place in the standings and kept him there.
Claudiney had set the benchmark and the pace early on with a Paralympic Record throw of 46.86m. In the process he broke his own record of 45.59m from Tokyo 2020. The Brazilian also holds the World Record of 47.37m, set in 2023.