By Admin 
After the high of Day One, it was a disappointing outing for the Indians at the World Para Athletics Championships with all six local hopefuls across three events failing to even reach the top-five in their respective competitions on Sunday even as records kept falling on the second day of the event.
India slipped to 12th position on the medal tally while Brazil managed to hang on to top spot with 10 medals so far, one ahead of China. Bulgaria’s Ruzhdi claimed his sixth successive world title in the men’s Shot Put F55 with a new world record of 12.94m, one of the four world records set on the day, three of them in the morning session.
Others included Malaysia’s Abdul Latif Romly, completing his hat-trick of long jump T20 world titles with a 7.67m jump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Ponomarenko who threw the shot put in T12 category to 17.39m. Norway’s Salum Ageze Kashafali clocked 10.42 seconds in the 100m T12, improving his own WR and setting a new championship record even as Indians Rakeshbhai Bhatt and Shreyansh Trivedi brought up the rear of the eight-member field. There were four more championship records set across men and women as the foreign athletes continued to prove their superiority.
Vikas in the long jump T47 was the best Indian on the day, finishing sixth with a 6.96m jump while Ajay Singh finished 10th. In the men’s javelin throw F57, Parveen Kumar ended in eight position with a best throw of 41.92m while Hem Chandra managed a personal best of 41.17m to finish 10th.
Among the women, Nassima Saifi retained her title in the Discus Throw F57 and Swiss wheelchair legend and 5000m T54 world record holder Catherine Debrunner reiterated her supremacy, adding yet another world title to her name, winning in 12:18.29.
The results: Men: 100m T12: Salum Ageze Kashafali (Nor, 10.42s); 100m T37: Ricardo Mendonca (Bra, 11.16s) new CR, Rakeshbhai Bhatt (7th, 11.88s), Shreyansh Trivedi (8th, 12.18s); 100m T38: Jaydin Blackwell (USA, 10.70s); 400m T72: Carlo Calcagni (Ita, 59.91s); 5000m T54: Marcel Hug (Sui, 10:03.64); Shot Put F55: Ruzhdi Ruzhdi (Bul, 12.94m); Shot Put F12:Volodymyr Ponomarenko (Ukr, 17.39m); Long Jump T20: Abdul Latif Romly (Mas, 7.67m); Javelin Throw F57: Muhammet Khalvandi (Tur, 53.30m), Parveen Kumar (8th, 41.92m), Hem Chandra (10th, 41.17m); Club Throw F32: Walid Farhah (Alg, 39.53m); long jump T47: Robiel Cervantes (Cub, 7.57m), Vikas (6th, 6.96m), Ajay Singh (10th, 6.31m).
Women: 100m T13: Orla Comerford (Irl, 11.88s); 400m T72: Magdalena Andruszkiewicz (Pol, 1:13.98); 400m T34: Hannan Cockroft (GBR, 55.62s); 400m T37: Nataliia Kobzar (Ukr, 1:01.18); 1500m T11: Neri Roxana Mamani Quispe with guide Aldo Milagro Cusi Huaman (Per, 4:59.93); 1500m T13: Greta Streimikyte (Irl, 4:39.62); 5000m T54: Catherine Debrunner (Sui, 12:18.29); Discus Throw F57: Nassimi Saifi (Alg, 34.54m); Shot Put F37: Lisa Adams (Nzl, 13.83m); Javelin Throw F13: Yuping Zhao (Chn, 45.22m).