Paralympics 2024 Para-Athletics: Preethi Pal wins a bronze medal, Manu finishes 6th in Men's Shot Put F37- Highlights

Sakshi finally has a valid throw but only attained the distance of 19.15m

Second consecutive foul throw for Sakshi, still lies in fourth position

Sakshi has a foul throw on the second attempt

Sakshi starts with a throw of 19.55m on the first attempt

Up Next: India's Sakshi Kasana for her first attempt

Sakshi's personal best is 22.06m. She needs a new personal best today to have any chance of winning a medal from this event.

Morocco's El Kaoui Norelhouda makes a new African record with a throw of 23.42m

El Kaoui makes a massive improvement on her PB and throws a distance of 23.42m on her first attempt to break the African Record for women's discus throw F55.

She has now jumped up to the second position ahead of India's Karamjyoti, who now slips to third.

Karamjyoti finished with the final throw of 20.22m, which is her best mark of the event

India's Karamajyoti finished her competition with the best throw of 20.22m on her final attempt. This mark is lower than her personal best of 21.55m.

She is right now sitting in the second position. But with more than half of the competition remaining, it's a tough task for her to medal.

Karamjyoti made a good improvement on the fifth attempt and crossed the 20m mark, i.e.20.04m

Another throw of 17m range for her. Still in the second position

She couldn't better her mark as only found a distance of 17.87m on the third attempt