<p>Kobe: Simran Sharma won gold medal in women's 200m T12 event with a personal best time of 24.95 seconds to fetch the sixth yellow medal for India on the final day of the World Para Athletics Championships here on Saturday.</p>.<p>Simran shaved off around one-fifth of a second from her earlier personal best of 25.16 seconds to win the gold.</p>.<p>Darlenys De La Severino (25.08) of Dominica and Lorraine Gomes De Aguiar (25.40) won the silver and bronze respectively.</p>.<p>The T12 category is meant for athletes who have vision impairment.</p>.P V Sindhu one step away from Malaysia Masters title.<p>India now has 15 medals (6 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) to be at sixth place in the standings.</p>.<p>Earlier, India were awarded the silver and bronze in men's javelin throw F46 event after winning a protest against second-place finisher Dinesh Priyantha Herath of Sri Lanka.</p>.<p>Rinku Hooda and Ajeet Singh on Friday finished third and fourth respectively in the men's F46 javelin throw final but the result was put on hold after India lodged a protest that Herath was ineligible to compete in the category.</p>.<p>In para sports, athletes are classified into groups with similar levels of physical ability to allow fair competition.</p>.India awarded silver, bronze in F46 javelin after winning protest at World Para Athletics C'ships .<p>The F46 classification is for athletes with arm deficiency, impaired muscle power or impaired passive range of movement in arms, with athletes competing in a standing position.</p>.<p>"He (Herath) was not classified properly and did not belong to the F 46 category," said an official from the Paralympic Committee of India.</p>.<p>India got a favourable decision and Herath was disqualified. Rinku, who originally finished third with an effort of 62.77m, was upgraded to second while Ajeet (62.11m) was handed a bronze.</p>.<p>"We won the protest against the Sri Lankan, who had also won gold at the Tokyo Paralympics, that he should not have been eligible to compete,” head coach Satyanarayan told <em>PTI</em>.</p>.<p>"Now, Rinku is the silver winner from the original third and Ajeet was upgraded from fourth place to bronze." This is India's best-ever performance, having surpassed the earlier record medal haul of 10 medals (3 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze) it won in the 2023 edition in Paris. </p>
<p>Kobe: Simran Sharma won gold medal in women's 200m T12 event with a personal best time of 24.95 seconds to fetch the sixth yellow medal for India on the final day of the World Para Athletics Championships here on Saturday.</p>.<p>Simran shaved off around one-fifth of a second from her earlier personal best of 25.16 seconds to win the gold.</p>.<p>Darlenys De La Severino (25.08) of Dominica and Lorraine Gomes De Aguiar (25.40) won the silver and bronze respectively.</p>.<p>The T12 category is meant for athletes who have vision impairment.</p>.P V Sindhu one step away from Malaysia Masters title.<p>India now has 15 medals (6 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) to be at sixth place in the standings.</p>.<p>Earlier, India were awarded the silver and bronze in men's javelin throw F46 event after winning a protest against second-place finisher Dinesh Priyantha Herath of Sri Lanka.</p>.<p>Rinku Hooda and Ajeet Singh on Friday finished third and fourth respectively in the men's F46 javelin throw final but the result was put on hold after India lodged a protest that Herath was ineligible to compete in the category.</p>.<p>In para sports, athletes are classified into groups with similar levels of physical ability to allow fair competition.</p>.India awarded silver, bronze in F46 javelin after winning protest at World Para Athletics C'ships .<p>The F46 classification is for athletes with arm deficiency, impaired muscle power or impaired passive range of movement in arms, with athletes competing in a standing position.</p>.<p>"He (Herath) was not classified properly and did not belong to the F 46 category," said an official from the Paralympic Committee of India.</p>.<p>India got a favourable decision and Herath was disqualified. Rinku, who originally finished third with an effort of 62.77m, was upgraded to second while Ajeet (62.11m) was handed a bronze.</p>.<p>"We won the protest against the Sri Lankan, who had also won gold at the Tokyo Paralympics, that he should not have been eligible to compete,” head coach Satyanarayan told <em>PTI</em>.</p>.<p>"Now, Rinku is the silver winner from the original third and Ajeet was upgraded from fourth place to bronze." This is India's best-ever performance, having surpassed the earlier record medal haul of 10 medals (3 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze) it won in the 2023 edition in Paris. </p>