By Hishan Welmilla
Dubai 2019 had already seen a world record set on Saturday morning – New Zealand’s Lisa Adams in the women’s shot put F37. But the evening session added another six to a spectacular day at the World Para Athletics Championships.
It started in alphabetical order with Australia and right in the first event of the evening session. Nineteen-year-old Corey Anderson established a new record in his first throw in the men’s javelin F38 final (56.28). And he did it with a broken ankle.
“I broke my ankle in the warm up, but still managed to throw a world record. I just kept mentally focused on what my job is, the hard work I have done, and this is my reward,” Anderson said.
Ukraine’s Oleksandr Doroshenko took silver with 54.87 followed by South Africa’s Reinhardt Hamman took bronze (54.63) – both with new continental records.
The next world record of the day came in the men’s 400m T12 with Abdeslam Hili (47.89) in a one-two Moroccan podium finish with Mahdi Afri (47.89). Oguz Akbulut from Turkey (48.99) finished third.
The third record of the evening was Ukrainian. Ihor Tsvietov won the men’s 200m T35 (23.04) with silver and bronze for Russia, through former record holder Dmitrii Safronov (23.93) and Artem Kalashian (24.24), respectively.
Algeria had already celebrated the first gold medal at Dubai 2019 in the morning. Nassima Saifi doubled that in the women’s discus throw F57 with a new world record (35.76). China got silver with Mian Xu (31.49) and another Algerian medal with Safia Djelal’s bronze (31.05).
Another record fell in the men’s 400m T37 as Russia’s Andrei Vdovin won the race in 59.45. It was a Russian one-two finish with Chermen Kobesov (50.47) and bronze to South Africa’s Charl Du Toit (50.53
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