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Option 2 : Sumit Antil
The correct answer is Sumit Antil.
- Indian para javelin thrower Sumit Antil clinched India's second gold in Tokyo Paralympics by winning the men's javelin F64 event with a world record throw of 68.55 m.
- Australian Michal Burian (66.29m) and Sri Lanka's Dulan Kodithuwakku (65.61m) took the silver and bronze respectively.
- The F64 category is for athletes with a leg amputation, who compete with prosthetics in a standing position.
- He bettered the previous world record of 62.88m, also set by him, five times on the day.
- He won a silver in the F64 javelin throw at the 2019 World Championships in Dubai.
- He belongs from Sonepat in Haryana and lost his left leg below the knee after he was involved in a motorbike accident in 2015.
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