Tokyo: Discus Thrower Yogesh Kathuniya won a silver medal at the Men’s F56 event in Paralympics here on Monday because athletics remain happy to hunt in the game.
The 24-year-old child, a Bospital graduate from New Delhi Kirorimal College, sent a disk to the best distance of 44.38 million in the sixth and final effort to reach silver.
On Sundays, India has taken silver (high leap) and bronze (a discus throw), which is detained because of protests.
The son of a soldier’s man, Kathuniya suffered a paralyzed attack at the age of eight which made him with coordination disruption in his limbs.
Defending Champion Brazil, ruling world champion and world record holder Claudiney Batista Dos Santos won gold with the best 45.59m throws while Leonardo Diaz Aldana (43.36m) Cuba took bronze.
In the F56 classification, athletes have full arm muscle strength and stems.
Pelvic stability is provided by several full ability to suppress the shared knee.
He won a bronze medal in the 2019 Athletics World Championship in Dubai with the best 42.51m throw which also recorded him to Tokyo’s bed.
It was as long as he was at KMC that his potential was considered by several coaches and he was immediately under the supervision of Satyapal Singh at Jawaharlal Stadium Nehuru.
A few years later, he was under the guidance of coach Naval Singh.
He created a world record in the F36 category in his first international competition in 2018 in the Athletics Grand Prix in Berlin.