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Indian para athletes and shooters continued their medal-winning run at the Asian Para Games, with Mona Agarwal claiming her second gold and Sandeep Kumar and Haney producing record-breaking performances on Friday.
Mona set a world record with a score of 357.5 to win gold in the women’s 50-m rifle 3 positions SH1 event.
In para athletics, Sandeep Kumar clocked 52.28 seconds in the men’s 400-m T64 final. The performance was reported as a T44 world record and helped India cross the 100-medal mark. Haney won gold in the men’s javelin throw with a 60.49-m effort, setting a new F37 world record.
In para badminton, Nitesh Kumar defeated fellow Indian Pramod Bhagat in the men’s singles SL3 final. Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manasi Joshi won the women’s doubles SL3-SU5 gold after defeating China’s reigning world champions 2-0.
In para-archery, Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi beat China 5-1 to win gold in the men’s recurve team event.
At the end of Day 5, India had won 28 gold, 34 silver and 46 bronze medals, taking its overall tally to 108 and placing it fourth in the standings.
The games will conclude with a closing ceremony at Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium on Saturday.
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