Suhas Yathiraj.
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India’s Suhas Yathiraj, Pramod Bhagat and Krishna Nagar capped their spectacular run by securing gold medals in males’s singles SL4, SL3 and SH6 class respectively on the Para Badminton World Championship in Pattaya on February 25.
The world No. 3 Yathiraj, a Paralymic silver medallist, outwitted Indonesia’s Fredy Setiawan 21-18 21-18 in SL4 last (standing/decrease limb impairment/minor) for her maiden world title.
“Gold it’s, blissful and proud to be world champion,” tweeted the 40-year-old Yathiraj, who hails from Karnataka and is an IAS officer of the 2007 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Yathiraj, who has an impairment in one in all his ankles, is at the moment the secretary and director normal of Youth Welfare and Prantiya Rakshak Dal within the U.P. authorities.
Tokyo Paralymic gold medallist Bhagat, who gained a gold and two bronze on the Para Asian Video games in China, edged out England’s Daniel Bethell 14-21 21-15 21-14 in SL3 (standing/decrease limb impairment/extreme) last.
Bhagat thus accomplished a hat-trick of crowns after Stoke Mandeville in 2015 and Basel in 2019. He additionally gained a gold medal at 2022 Tokyo and 2009 Seoul version.
“This win holds a really particular place in my coronary heart for numerous causes,” mentioned the Bihar-born shuttler, one of many six siblings, who was identified with polio when he was 5 years outdated.
“First being that I’ve managed to equal my idol Lin Dan’s file of 5 world championships and second being having been in a position to retain three consecutive world championships.”
Other than the gold, the 35-year-old additionally gained two bronze medals in males’s doubles and combined doubles together with Sukant Kadam and Manisha Ramadass respectively. The three medals took his tally to 14, which incorporates 6 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze throughout classes.
In SH6 class (standing/brief stature), Krishna Nagar, a Paralympic gold medal winner, additionally emerged champion after prevailing 22-20 22-20 over China’s Lin Naili in one other males’s singles last.
In ladies’s singles SU5 (standing/higher limb impairment), Manisha Ramadass signed off with a silver medal after shedding 16-21 16-21 to China’s Yang Qiu Xia within the last.
The lads’s doubles pair of Chirag Baretha and Raj Kumar and ladies’s doubles mixture of Rachana Shaileshkumar and Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan settled for a silver every, after shedding their respective last matches in SU5 and SH6 classes.
In ladies’s doubles (SL3-SU5) class, Manasi Joshi and Thulasimathi Murugesan additionally signed off with a silver medal after shedding 20-22 17-21 to Indonesian mixture of Leani Ratri Oktila and Khalimatus Sadiyah within the last.
Bhagat vs Bethell
Pramod and Bethell get pleasure from a wholesome rivalry with the England shuttler having gained 11 instances in 17 conferences.
The ultimate turned out to be an exhaustive and tight contest because the duo engaged in a slugfest for an hour and 40 minutes.
“This match with Bethell can be my hardest each mentally and bodily. I’ve not been enjoying properly in opposition to Bethell previous few months and this was my time to show doubters mistaken.
“The match was exhaustive and Bethell performed brilliantly however one way or the other, I managed to drag out a win,” Bhagat mentioned.
