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Friday, Jul 18, 2025
The 19-year-old finished with a world record equalling total of 249.6, which is also a new Paralympic record.
The 40-year-old Jhajahria, already India's greatest Paralympian after winning gold medals in the 2004 and 2016 Games, pulled off a new personal best throw of 64.35m for the silver.
Brazil's Santos doe Claudiney Batista bagged the gold with a new Paralympic Games record of 45.59m while Cuba's Leonardo Alandana Diaz took bronze with a best throw of 43.36m.
The result has been challenged by some other competitors, who have objected to Vinod' classification in the F52 category.
Kumar cleared 2.06m to win the silver and set an Asian record in men's high jump T47 event.
Patel, who was diagnosed with polio when she was 12 months old, had defeated world no 3 Miao Zhang of China in the semifinal showdown on Saturday.
Bhavina came back strongly from a game deficit to stun World No 3 Miao 3-2 in the thrilling semifinal clash.
With less than a week to the start of the Paralympics, the Asahi Newspaper reported on Friday that a Tokyo hospital declined the organisers' request to take emergency cases from the Games.
India's biggest-ever contingent to the Paralympic Games -- 54 para-athletes from across nine sports disciplines -- will be heading to Tokyo.
Kerala has unfinished business in Japan because a tenth athlete from the State will soon embark on a medal hunt in Tokyo.
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