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India’s para athlete Navdeep Singh was in action on Sunday, October 5, and he finished second in the men’s Javelin Throw F41 final. Navdeep touched a distance of 45.46 m in his third attempt to bag the silver medal.
After registering a throw of 45.46 m, Navdeep celebrated in an aggressive manner, and the clip of his celebration is now going viral on the internet.
The Trademark Navdeep Celebration
Referee calming him down at the end😂 https://t.co/8mSroPjq10 pic.twitter.com/N3jH6ctLt1
— Prithvi (@Eighty7_Fifty8) October 5, 2025
Last year in the Para Olympics, Navdeep won gold medal for India.
Sadegh Beit Sayah wins gold
Navdeep’s best attempt of 45.46m was only good enough for a silver as Iran’s Sadegh Beit Sayah’s massive 48.86m throw fetched him the
gold.
The 24-year-old Navdeep seemed to be warming up nicely when his third attempt of 45.46m — his season’s best — put him head and shoulders above the rest of the field, except for Sayah.
However, the Paris Paralympics gold medallist in F41 category (athletes with short stature) could not take his game to the next level as his fourth attempt fetched him 44.87, while he fouled the last two.
Simran takes second medal
Simran was all fired up in the women’s 200m T12 event despite the champion athlete running her sixth sprint race in two days.
The 25-year-old Uttar Pradesh para athlete, who has significant visual limitation and runs with a sighted guide to assist her during her races, added a silver to the 100m T12 gold she won on Friday with an Asian record and personal best time of 24.46 second.
Simran initially finished third behind Venezuela’s Alejandra Perez Lopez, and Brazil’s Clara Barros de Silva (24.42 seconds), but the former was disqualified leading to the Indian moving up to second spot.
Alejandra was disqualified under rule R7.10.4 of the the World Para Athletics (WPA) regulations concerning infractions in events for visually impaired athletes who use a guide runner.
The rule states that “an athlete will be disqualified if they or their guide runner fail to comply with the rules for using a tether.”
(With inputs from PTI)
