Sharath clocked one minute 21.39 seconds to clinch the men’s 100M breaststroke gold in the SB-8 class. Later, he pocketed a silver in the 400M freestyle, clocking 5:32.36.
India’s Athens gold medallist Davender Jhajhria won the javelin throw at the Sree Kanteerava stadium. The Rajasthan athlete threw the javelin to a distance of 57.09 metres to finish first while his team-mate Vinod Kumar claimed the bronze (45.90).
Results:
Athletics:
Men: 200M: T-42: Popow Heinrich (Ger) 26.62, 1; Yamamoto Atushi (Jpn) 28.07, 2; Balwan Singh (Ind) 28.42, 3.
T-44: Olivera Alan (Bra) 23.77, 1. T-46: Nosulenko Yury (Rus) 22.73, 1.
Wheelchair T-53: Yu Shiran (Chn) 28.47, 1. Wheelchair (T-54): Tähti Leo-Pekka (Fin) 25.69, 1.
Javelin throw: F-44 & F-46: Davender Jhajhria (Ind) 57.09, 1; Gudkov Evgeny (Rus) 48.99, 2; Vinod Kumar (Ind) 45.90, 3.
Wheelchair (F-54): Kuznetsov Alexey (Rus) 28.01, 1.
4x100M wheelchair relay (T-54): China (52.61) 1.
4x100M relay (T-46): Germany (47.96) 1; India (Reddy, Jagseer Singh, Ram Vinod, Rajesh) 48.58, 2; Saudi Arabia (1:03.58) 3.
Women: 200M: T-46: Rodomakina Nikol (Rus) 25.90, 1.
Shot put: Wheelchair (F-53 & F-54): Kacanu Eva (Cze) 6.43, 1; Perminiene Irena (Lit) 6.16, 2; Deepa Malik (Ind) 3.28, 3. Wheelchair F-58: Eneva Stela (Bul) 10.50, 1.
Powerlifting:
Men: 100kg: Bassam Al Hawal (KSA) 192.5, 1; Abdulmonem Alnajar (KSA) 160, 2; Parvinder Singh (Ind) 155, 3.
Over 100kg: Faris Al Ajeeli (Irq) 242.5, 1.
Women: 82.5kg: Huda Ali (Irq) 115, 1.
Over 82.5kg: Adeline Ancheta (Phi) 110, 1.
75kg: Tzu-Hui Lin (Tpe) 130, 1.
Swimming: Men: 100M breaststroke: SB-5: Taweesook S (Tha) 1:53.58, 1; Raghavendra Anavekar (Ind) 2:07.63, 2. SB-7: Viktor Kemeny (Slv) 1:58.06, 2.
SB-8: Sharath Gaekwad (Ind) 1:21.39, 1; Hatem Al-Drkuzli (Irq) 1:42.10, 2; Suyash Narayan Jadav (Ind) 2:05.42, 3.
SB-9: Furong Lin (Chn) 1:10.69, 1; Prashanta Karmakar (Ind) 1:21.69, 2; Razak Tambi (Mal) 1:21.77, 3.
50M freestyle: S-2: Voijtech F (Cze) 1:19.83, 1. S-4: Dharmendra Ahirwar (Ind) 2:22.18, 1. S-5: Voravit K (Tha) 39.03, 1.
400M freestyle: S-6: Yusup Dewa (Mal) 6:04.69, 1; Raghavendra Anavekar (Ind) 6:43.64, 2.
S-7: Somyot S (Tha) 6:19.12, 1.
S-8: Jiachao Wang (Chn) 4:47.49, 1; Sharath Gaekwad (Ind) 5:32.36, 2; Ernie A (Phi) 5:40.59, 3.
S-9: Arnel Aba (Phi) 5:26.17, 1.
S-10: Fraidden Dawan (Mal) 5:09.67, 1; Ram Baran Pal (Ind) 7:19.54, 2.
50M breaststroke: SB-2: Somchai D (Tha) 1:03.24, 1. SB-3: Sanit S (Tha) 1:00.96, 1. Women: 50M freestyle: S-5: Rui Si Theresa (Sin) 46.32, 1. 400M freestyle: S-8: Jeerawan Naithong (Tha) 7:18.30, 1.
S-9: Yuqingyan Cai (Chn) 5:01.73, 1.
S-10: Jimin Wu (Chn) 5:07.20, 1.
Badminton: Men: Final: BMW-2: Doubles: Vanella Anjana Reddy/ Tiwari SP (Ind) bt Seetharam T/ K C Deepak (Ind) 21-4, 21-6.
Semifinals: BMW-3: Singles: Wong Peng Kuong (Mac) bt Harish Bisht (Ind) 21-5, 21-10; IP Chi Keong (Mac) bt Nurol Hussain Khan (Ind) 21-16, 15-21, 21-17.
Shooting: Men: Air rifle: R1 (Standing): Naresh Kumar Sharma (Ind) 684.4 points, 1; Abdulla A (UAE) 684, 2; Saif A (UAE) 674.4, 3. Air pistol: Evnipidu Georgiou (Cyp) 556, 1; Sommai Atsa (Tha) 543, 2; Nand Kishor Nale (Ind) 523, 3. Women: Air pistol: Tanut S (Tha) 358, 1; Dilraj Kaur (Ind) 311, 2.
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