Paris Paralympics 2024: India's para-shot putter Ravi Rongali finished in the fifth position in the men's F40 shot put summit clash whereas Rakhshita Raju was knocked out in the first round of women's 1500m T11 race on Day 3 of track and field events of the ongoing quadrennial event on Sunday. Rongali, who is an Asian Para Games silver medalist registered his personal best record of 10.63m and thus finished at the fifth place position.
Portugal's Miguel Montero, clinched the gold medal by throwing at a distance of 11.21m whereas Mongolia's Battulga Tsegmid settled for the bronze medal by throwing at a distance of (11.09m).
The defending Asian Para Games champion Iraq's Garrah Tnaiash won the silver medal by throwing at a distance of 11.03m whereas Tokyo Paralympic gold medalist Denis Gnezdilov, who was participating as a neural paralympic athlete, finished the fourth position by throwing at a distance of 10.80m.
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The F40 category is for all those para-athletes who are short in height.
At the same time, the 23-year-old Rakshita finished at the last position of four runners in Heat 3 at a timing of 5:29.92s.
The top two runners from Heat 3 reached the summit clash.
China's Shanshan He went past Rakshita by finishing at a time of 4:44.66s before South Africa's Louzanne Coetzee, who finished at the timing of 4:45.25s, which was also her personal best.
The T11 category is for all those athletes who are suffering from visual impairment due to loss of vision or can see light but can't identify the shape of a hand from a distance.
In this category, the athletes are usually seen running with guides.
On Friday, Preeti Pal clinched the country's first athletics medal in the quadrennial event by winning a bronze medal in the women's T35 100m category and also registered a personal best record by finishing at a timing of 14.21 seconds.
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The young Preeti, who is a farmer's daughter, hailing from Muzaffarnagar entered this tournament by clinching a bronze medal in the same category at the World Para Athletics championships earlier this year.
The category of T35 is for those athletes, who suffer from coordination impairment like hypertonia, ataxia, and athetosis.