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Ramya clinches athletics gold

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— Photo: G.P. Sampath Kumar

N.S. Ramya.

BANGALORE: N.S. Ramya, a 12th standard school girl from Saru Matric HS, Erode gave India’s it first athletics gold in the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports (IWAS) World Games.

At the Sree Kanteerava stadium here on Friday, Ramya coached by SDAT’s Ranjit and Kandaswamy from her school heaved the iron ball to a distance of 9.50 metres, her personal best. At the Jaipur Nationals for paralympics Ramya had won both the shot put and discus throw events.

Boosting India’s gold tally was the golfers, the powerlifters and swimmer Prashant Karmarkar.

Golf introduced for the first time in this edition of the IWAS Games had just two participants — India and Korea. India’s Col. Rajendra Rawat, who lost his right leg in the IPKF action at Jafna in 1988, carded seven over for the day for a two day total of 163 just enough to pip the Korean challenge. Lt Col Gaurav Dutta went onto bag the bronze.

Rajinder Singh lifted 182.0 kgs in the men’s upto 82.5 kgs category for the powerligting gold.

The results: Men: F51-53: Discus (wheelchair) 1 kg: 1. Aigars Apinis (Lat) 19,34m, 2. Miroslav Matic (Cro) 9.72m, 3. Adnan Kumer (Irq) 18.89m. F46: Discuss (1.5 kgs): 1. Maamar Meskine (Alg) 42.75m, 2. Davender (Ind) 36.93m, 3. Hisham Che Soh (Mas) 30.22m. F58: Discus (600gms): 1. Sakchai Yimbanchang (Tha) 41.63m, 2. Jaroslav Petrous (Czec) 32.94m, 3. Cheng-Yin Lin (Tpe) 27.28m.

F56: Discus: Wheelchair (1 kg): 1. Josef Stiak (Czec) 36.80m, 2. Alexey Ivanov (Rus) 28.81m, 3. Venkataravanappa Gopalappa (Ind) 21.14m; F42: Long jump: 1. Wojtek Czyz (Ger) 6.72m, 2. Heinrich Popow (Ger) 6.31m, 3. Atushi Yamamoto (Jpn) 5.89m; F44: Long jump: 1. Markus Rehm (Ger) 6.75m, 2. Nick Weihs (Ger) 5.65m, 3. Tomas Kairys (Lit) 5.39m.

T46: 800 m: 1. Samir Nouioua (Alg) 1:55.23s, 2. Gunther Matzinger (Austria) 1:55.65s, 3. Marcin Awizen (Pol) 1:56.47s; T54: 800 m (wheelchair): 1. Yangfeng Cui (Chn) 1:44.27s, 2. Masayuki Higuchi (Jpn) 1:46.04s, 3. Niklas Almers Swe) 1:46.08s.

Women: F42: Shot put (4 kgs): 1. Yongyuan Zhong (Chn) 8.65m, 2. Jana Schmidt (Ger) 8.58m, 3. Jelena Vukovic (Cro) 8.02m.

F44: Shot put (4 kg): 1. Yajuan Jin (Chn) 12.57m, 2. Michaela Floeth (Ger) 12.36m, 3. Wanna Ladee (Tha) 8.52m. F46: Shot put (4 kg): 1. N.S Ramya (Ind) 9.50m, 2. Supidsara Khamsuk (Tha) 8.64m, 3. Patricia Rachel Sentau (Mas) 7.50m. F56: Shot put (wheelchair 3 kg): 1. Martina Willing (Ger) 8.17m, 2. Ameera Al-Hameedi (Irq) 6.70m, 3. Khuloud Almutairi (Kuw) 3.61m.

T54: 200 m (wheelchair): 1. Lisha Huang (Chn) 29.74s, 2. Ting Zhang (Chn) 30.26s, 3. Prudencia Panaligan (Phi) 36.97s; T44: 200m: 1. Katrina Green (Ger) 28.33s, 2. Kate Horan (Nzl) 28.77s, 3. Astrid Höfte (Ger) 29.34s.

Powerlifting: Men’s (Upto 82.5 kg): 1. Rajinder Singh Rahelu (Ind) 182.0kgs, 2. Santos Alexsander (Braz) 175.0kgs, 3. Bhushan Kasekar (Ind) 175.0kgs. (Upto 90 kg): 1. Kakaen Somsak (Tha) 185.0kgs, 2. Sachin Chaudary (Ind) 80.0kgs, 3. Jose Silva (Bra) 170.0kgs.

Swimming: SM6: 1. Xu Qing (Chn) 2:56.69s, 2. Raghavendra Anavekar (Ind) 3:23.36s, 3. Prajim Reangsantie (Tha) 3: 58.54s.

SM7: 1. Huaqiang Yang (Chn) 2:53.01s; SM8: 1. Jiachao Wang (Chn) 2:31.45s, 2. Arnel Aba (Phi) 2:59.25s, 3. David Wangyu Kulek (Mal) 3:17.96s; SM9: 1. Prashantha Karmarkar (Ind) 2:38.77s, 2. Sachin Verma (Ind) 2:54.65s, 3. James Bezuidenhout (RSA) 3:02.57s.

SM10: 1. Furong Lin (Chn) 2:27.84s, 2. Sean Lyle Clark (RSA) 2:40.87s, 3. Fraidden Dawan (Mal) 2:42.68s.

Golf: 1. Col Rajendra Rawat (Ind) 84+79+163, 2. Goshich Park (Kor) 81+83+164, 3. Lt Col Gaurav Dutta (Ind) 94+92=184. Team: Gold: India. Silver: Korea.

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