Rinku finished fifth with a personal best of 54.39 metres in six attempts, while Sundar Singh Gurjar didn’t start the event.
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Gurjar was an able-bodied athlete, till he lost a hand in an accident previous year.
Quite deservingly, he has already been bestowed with the Arjuna award as well as the Padma Shri, the latter being the fourth-highest civilian honour in India. He collected gold at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, the silver at the 2014 Asian Para Games and silver at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships.
Thangavelu Mariyappan had earlier struck gold in the men’s high jump, while Varun Bhati had secured a bronze in the same event.
Darshan Kumaar: “Heartiest Congratulations Devendra Jhajharia for grabbing your second gold at Paralympics Rio 2016”.
Then came Devendra Jhajhariya, India’s sole gold medalist at the Paralympics prior to 2016.
“Congrats #DevendraJhajharia fr the Gold& new World Record.Truly inspiring, wishing fr more coverage than ur 2004 gold”, Kaif wrote in his twitter handle.
Dhanush: “Congrats to #DevendraJhajharia on winning #Gold at #Paralympics”.
India’s Olympic gold medallist shooter, Abhinav Bindra also heaped praise on Devendra. Dev Jhajharia you’ve made the country proud yet again!
The Rajasthan athlete is now the only Indian to have won gold medals in the individual category in either Olympics or Paralympics.
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Bahrain’s Fatema Nedham won the gold medal with a best throw of 4.76m, while Dimitra Korokida of Greece bagged the bronze medal with a throw of 4.28m. “I won my first paralympics medal in 2004, and now, after 12 years, it is just the dedication and hardwork which paid off”, Jhajhariya, who is a coach with the Gandhinagar centre of the Sports Authority of India (SAI), told IANS from Rio after his victory on Wednesday. The Javelin throw got the record in this amtch where in ha got 63.9 meteres thrown at the stadium today.
