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Mitrovic rewrites discus world record; double for Rodomakina

BANGALORE: Drazenko Mitrovic of Serbia hurled the discus to a new world mark of 31.19m to better Chinese Fan Liang’s Beijing Games mark of 31.08 in the IWAS World Games athletics event at the Sree Kanteerava stadium here on Thursday.

Masayuki Higuchi of Japan made the gruelling 5,000m wheelchair race his very own with a start-to-finish effort, clocking 11:46.29s. Two years ago, in the Taipei edition of the Games, the 30-year-old Japanese had finished fifth.

Nikol Rodomakina of Russia had a golden double, winning the F46 class 100m in a time of 12.57s and the long jump with a leap of 5.45m.

The results: Men: T42: 100m: Wojtek Czyz (Ger) 12.26s, 2. Heinrich Popow (Ger) 12.29s, 3. Atushi Yamamoto (Jpn) 13.05s; T44: 100m: 1. Alan Olivera (Bra) 11.23s, David Behre (Ger) 11.66s, 3. Robert Meyer (Aus) 12.04s; T45: 100m: 1. Samkelo Radebe (RSA) 11.56s, 2. Dmitry Rastrepaev (Rus) 11.58s, 3. Sayan Sri-In (Tha) 12.55s; T46: 100m: Saeed al Kaldi (Sau) 11.17s, 2. Yury Nosulenko (Rus) 11.33s, 3. Andrej (Swe) 11.48s.

Wheelchair: T53: 100m: Shiran Yu (Chn) 15.49s, 2. F Saed Algenaidel (Sau) 15.90s, 3. Moham Bani Hashem (UAE) 16.07s; T54: 100m: Leo Pekka Tahti (Fin) 14.03s, 2. Kai Zong (Chn) 14.46s, 3. Mohammad Vahdani (UAE) 14.50s; 5,000m: 1. Masayuki Higuchi (Jpn) 11:46.29s, 2. Baptista Pereira (Por) 12:40.46s, 3. Badir Alhawasin (UAE) 12:40.85s; F44: Discus (1.5 kgs): 1. Adrian Matusik (Slo) 45.33m, 2. Alexander Filatov (Rus) 37.81m, 3. Muthuvel Shanta 36.00m.

F64: Wheelchair: Discus (1kg): 1. Drazenko Mitrovic (Srb) 31.19m (New World Record; Old: Fan Liang (Chn) 31.08m, Beijing Games-’08), 2. Alexey Kuznetsov (Rus) 29.48m, 3. Jovica Brkic (Serb) 24.79m.

Women: T46: 100m: 1. Nikol Rodomakina (Rus) 12.57s, 2. Elena Chistilina (Rus) 12.74s, 3. Evgeny Kutasonova (Rus) 12.95s; T54: Wheelchair: 800m: Hongzhuan Zhou (Chn) 1:57.23s, 2. Wenjun Liu (Chn) 1:57.58s, 3. Gunill Wallendren (Swe) 2:00.97s; F46: Long jump: 1. Nikol Rodomakina (Rus) 5.45m, 2. Lenka Gajarska (Slov) 5.38m, 3. Evgeny Kutasonova (Rus) 4.98m.

F55: Wheelchair: Javelin: 1. Daniela Todorova (Bul) 19.05m, 2. Jana Fesslova (Czeh) 17.26m, 3. Maria Buggenhagen (Ger) 16.32m; F57: Javelin: 1. Mary Nakhumichi (Ken) 20.68m, 2. Olga Sergienko (Rus) 20.11m, 3. Nadia Medjemedi (Alg) 18.01m; F54/58: Javelin: 1. Safia Djelel (Alg) 26.04m (883 pts), 2. Irena Perminiene (Lith) 12.60m (860), 3. Elizabeth Ogonji (Ken) 14.60m (495).

Powerlifting: Women: Up to 67.5 kg: 1. Fatimah Wagiman (Ind), 90.0; 2. Phanumas Yimmak (Tha), 80.0; 3. Surita Saad (Ind), 72.5; Up to 60 kg: 1. Yujiao Tan (Chn), 115.0; 2. Arawan Bootpo (Tha), 100.0; 3. Terezinha Santos (Bra) 87.5; Men: Up to 67.5 kg: 1. Lei Liu (Chn), 212.5; 2. Peng Hu (Chn), 185.0; 3. Prasit Thongdee (Tha), 170.0.

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