With the Indian tricolour wrapped around his shoulder, Subedar Soman Rana beamed as he soaked in the moment at the JLN stadium. On Saturday, he finally won the medal he had long been yearning for. With a Season’s Best throw of 14.69m, Rana won silver in the F57 category (for athletes who compete from a seated position due…
Indian food delivery company Zomato, sponsor of the ongoing World Para Athletics Championships, recently shared a video on its Instagram handle as part of a promotional event. It featured some of the country’s top contenders at the marquee competition, particularly of those who won medals at the Paris Paralympics last year. One athlete who didn’t…
His competition at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru stadium on Saturday might have ended with the unfortunate clatter of the high jump bar – a third failure with the bar set at 1.94m – but Shailesh Kumar had a big smile on his face. His job was already done by that point. He had already cleared…