Ahmad Hindi of Jordan has smashed his own world record on the way to winning a gold medal in the Men’s Shot Put F34 at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games on Saturday morning.
On a glorious day for Arab athletes, the 25-year-old from Amman managed a throw of 12.25m, with Azeddine Nouiri of Morocco taking silver with 11.55m and Abdulrahman Fiqi of Qatar claiming bronze with 11.36m.
Hindi had set the previous mark of 12.17m at the 2019 World Championships in Dubai.
In the Women’s Shot Put F40, Nourhein Belhaj Salem of Tunisia took silver with a throw of 8.33m, while Renata Sliwinska won gold with a new Paralympic record of 8.75m. Lauritta Onye of Nigeria finished third with a throw of 8.29m.
Belhaj Salem’s compatriots Raja Jebali and Rima Abdelli finished in fourth and fifth positions respectively.
