India’s Paralympic stars lit up the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Tuesday evening at the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships. Sumit Antil grabbed gold in the men’s javelin throw F64 with a stunning new championship record of 71.37 meters, while Sandip Singh Sargar took the top spot in the F44 event with 62.82 meters. Their wins marked a huge boost for India, pushing the country to fourth in the medals table with four golds, four silvers, and one bronze.
Brazil stays ahead overall with seven golds, 14 silvers, and six bronzes, followed by Poland (six golds, one silver, five bronzes) and China (five golds, seven silvers, four bronzes). The two Indian javelin golds made the night unforgettable for home fans, especially with 2020 Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra cheering from the stands.
Sumit Antil, already a 2023 world champion, dominated the F64 field. He fired three throws over 65 meters in his first four attempts and sealed the deal with his record-breaking fifth throw. This marks his third straight world para athletics gold—more than any other Indian athlete. Back in 2023 in Paris, he set a world record at 70.83 meters, and in 2024 in Kobe, he hit 69.50 meters for gold. "I wanted to make this hat-trick count," Antil said, focusing hard under the balmy Delhi skies.
In the men’s F44 javelin, 35-year-old Sandip Singh Sargar led an exciting Indian 1-2 finish. He edged out teammate Sandeep’s 62.67 meters with his final throw of 62.82 meters—just 1 cm shy of the leader’s best until then. Brazilian Edenilson Roberto snagged bronze with a world-record 62.36 meters in the F42 class. Pushpendra Singh, competing in F43, hit a season-best 61.94 meters but missed the medals.
The action wasn’t just Indian. Australia’s Vanessa Low, a three-time world champion who first won for Germany in 2015, claimed gold in the women’s long jump T63 with a new T61 championship record of 5.49 meters. She beat Switzerland’s Elena Kratter (5.45 meters, a T63 record) and the USA’s Noelle Lambert-Beirne (4.84 meters).
Brazil’s Ricardo Gomes de Mendonca added a 200m T37 gold to his hat-trick of 100m titles, clocking 22.77 seconds and saying the warm conditions felt just like home. Poland’s Magdalena Andruszkiewicz smashed a world record in the women’s 100m T72 with 16.82 seconds, beating the previous mark of 17.07 set by Australia’s Maria Strong in 2023. Greece’s Konstantinos Tourkochortitis also set a world record in javelin F62 at 35.08 meters during the F64 event.
Other highlights included Brazil’s Yeltsin Jacques breaking the 1500m T11 championship record at 4:02.02, and Iran’s Amirhossein Alipour Darbeid topping the shot put F11 with a new record of 14.59 meters. In women’s events, New Zealand’s Danielle Aitchison won the 100m T36 in 13.43 seconds, Ireland’s Orla Comerford took the 200m T13 gold at 24.71 seconds, and Poland’s Roza Kozakowska set a club throw F32 record of 29.30 meters.
Key results from the finals:
Men’s events:
- 100m T13: 1. Shuta Kawakami (Japan) 10.91s; 2. Chad Perris (Australia) 10.96s; 3. Fabricio Junior Barros (Brazil) 11.00s.
- 100m T64: 1. Felix Streng (Germany) 10.73s; 2. Johannes Floors (Germany) 10.75s; 3. Sherman Ididro Guity (Costa Rica) 10.93s.
- 100m T72: 1. Carlo Fabio Marcello Calcagni (Italy) 14.80s; 2. Joao Matos Marques (Brazil) 15.76s; 3. Finlay Jonathan Menezes (Great Britain) 16.29s.
- 200m T37: 1. Ricardo Gomes de Mendonca (Brazil) 22.77s; 2. Bartolomeu da Silva (Brazil) 23.10s; 3. Andrei Vdovin (Neutral) 23.31s.
- 400m T11: 1. Guillaume Junor Atangana (Refugee Team) 51.95s; 2. Gauthier Makunda (France) 52.81s; 3. Mohammed Ayade (Iraq) 52.85s.
- 1500m T11: 1. Yeltsin Jacques (Brazil) 4:02.02 (CR); 2. Julio Cesar Agripino (Brazil) 4:05.61; 3. Fedor Rudakov (Neutral) 4:06.51.
- Shot put F11: 1. Amirhossein Alipour Darbeid (Iran) 14.59m (CR); 2. Mahdi Olad (Iran) 14.23m; 3. Alvaro del Amo Cano (Spain) 13.70m. India: 7. Sagar 11.74m; 10. Monu Ghanghas 10.87m.
- Javelin F44: 1. Sandip Singh Sargar (India) 62.82m; 2. Sandeep (India) 62.67m; 3. Edenilson Roberto (Brazil) 62.36m; 4. Pushpendra Singh (India) 61.94m; 7. Mahendra Gurjar (India) 57.84m.
- Javelin F64: 1. Sumit Antil (India) 71.37m (CR); 2. Tomas Felipe Soto Mina (Colombia) 48.38m; 3. Rufat Khabibullin (Kazakhstan) 47.14m. (Greece’s Konstantinos Tourkochortitis: WR 35.08m in F62.)
Women’s events:
- 100m T36: 1. Danielle Aitchison (New Zealand) 13.43s; 2. Mali Lovell (Australia) 14.56s; 3. Veronica Hipolito (Brazil) 14.77s.
- 100m T72: 1. Magdalena Andruszkiewicz (Poland) 16.82s (WR); 2. Judith Tortosa Vila (Spain) 18.16s; 3. Zofia Kalucka (Poland) 19.16s.
- 200m T13: 1. Orla Comerford (Ireland) 24.71s; 2. Rayane Soares da Silva (Brazil) 25.24s; 3. Kym Crosby (USA) 25.64s.
- Long jump T63: 1. Vanessa Low (Australia) 5.47m (T61 CR); 2. Elena Kratter (Switzerland) 5.45m (T63 CR); 3. Noelle Lambert-Beirne (USA) 4.84m.
- Shot put F34: 1. Zou Lijuan (China) 9.15m; 2. Lucyna Kornobys (Poland) 8.26m; 3. Galina Lipatnikova (Neutral) 8.01m; 6. Bhagyashri Jadhav (India) 7.67m.
- Club throw F32: 1. Roza Kozakowska (Poland) 29.30m (CR); 2. Marouna Ibrahmi (Tunisia) 29.19m; 3. Giovanna Boscolo (Brazil) 27.09m.
What a thrilling day for para athletics fans—India’s javelin heroes stole the show!
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