Paris Paralympics 2024: ‘I’m Winning Silver Everywhere, Now Want To Break Jinx By Clinching Gold’, Says Yogesh Kathuniya
Yogesh Kathuniya expressed disappointment after securing his fifth consecutive silver medal at the Paris Paralympics, vowing to work harder for gold in future events.
Paris: A 2nd consecutive silver medal at the Paralympics is no longer a feat Indian discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya is just too blissful about as he feels he is stuck with 2nd-location finish in a sequence of wanted movements.
The 27-yr-ancient from Haryana produced a season best effort of forty two.22m to full 2nd on the F-fifty six discus podium at the Paris Olympics on Monday.
But Kathuniya wasn’t convinced alongside with his time-honored effectivity and he vowed to more desirable the colour of his medal in the next wanted match.
“Adventure used to be ok, I received a silver. I may work more durable to alter the colour of the medal,” a beautifully disappointed Kathuniya spoke of after his match.
“For some time, I’m winning silver best be it Tokyo (Paralympics) or today, World Championships or Asian Games..global I’m winning silver. Gaadi atak gayi hai (I’m stuck on silver). I suspect I deserve to work more durable. Now I prefer gold.”
The silver on Monday is Kathuniya’s fifth consecutive 2nd location finish because the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021.
He had picked up silver medals at the 2023, 2024 World Championships as nicely as in the Asian Para Games prime yr.
Kathuniya, who developed the Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare autoimmune circumstance which explanations numbness, tingling and muscle susceptible aspect which will growth to paralysis, used to be wheelchair constructive prior than his mother learnt physiotherapy to aid him regain muscle potential to walk once extra.
Kathuniya’s time-honored effectivity at the Stade de France used to be not as good as the forty 4.38m effort he produced at Tokyo three years again and likewise beneath his personal best of 48m which he produced at the Indian Open, which is, even inspite of the definitely certainty that, no longer a World Para Athletics match.
“Not too long ago used to be no longer my day, my time-honored effectivity is conventional but today I don’t easily feel that blissful. My household shall be blissful, they should be celebrating.
“My demonstrate has helped me a lot. I did completely in education but lamentably I wasn’t ready to replicate it today,” he spoke of.
The F56 category is supposed for athletes who compete in discipline movements from a seated role. Extra special athletes, including these with amputations and spinal cord accidents, compete for the time of this class.
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