Indian para-athlete – discus and club thrower Amit Kumar Saroha has clinched gold medal in the men’s club throw F-51 event at the 2016 French Open Athletics Championship recently held in Paris by virtue of a record-breaking throw of 26.58m.
With this, the 31-year-old Arjuna awardee from Haryana bettered his own previously held Asian best distance of 25.44m which he had accomplished en route to his silver medal at the final of the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, last October.
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The 2014 Incheon Asiad gold medalist will now look to capitalize on his positive run of form as he heads into this year’s Paralympic Games to be held at Rio de Janeiro, which will also be his second outing at this level after the London 2012 Games.
Apart from being India’s first quadriplegic to represent India at the Paralympics, GoSports Foundation-supported Amit, happens to feature among the favourites to fetch further glory for the nation when he finally turns up at Rio in September.
