Khilari’s Season-Best Gold Completes India’s F46 Shot Put Sweep

Sachin Sarjerao Khilari won men’s F46 shot put gold at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games with a season-best 15.87 metres. Mohd Yasser and Parveen took silver and bronze, so India left the rest of Asia off the podium on Wednesday in Nagoya.

The Sports Authority of India logged the winning put as a season best, and it sat 16 centimetres under the 16.03 metres Khilari threw for gold in Hangzhou. The night still closed a line that started when a Chinese thrower held this title and an Indian took bronze behind him.

Khilari Saved His Best for Throw Six

The final opened in Nagoya on October 21 with three Indians in the field: Khilari, Yasser and Parveen. Live attempts had Khilari out to 15.79 metres on his first put, already clear of everyone else, before he reached 15.87 metres with the sixth and last.

Yasser’s silver came in round three at 15.06 metres, a season best. Parveen held bronze at 14.94 metres. Several accounts of the series said every valid Khilari put cleared 15 metres, which is the band he has lived in at worlds and the Paralympics.

THE NAGOYA PODIUM

• Gold: Sachin Sarjerao Khilari (India), 15.87 metres, sixth attempt, season best.
• Silver: Mohd Yasser (India), 15.06 metres, third attempt, season best.
• Bronze: Parveen (India), 14.94 metres.

Khilari, a TOPS athlete from Maharashtra, was defending the title he won at the Hangzhou Games, the edition SAI still labels 2022 even though the throws were contested in 2023. He turns 37 on October 23, two days after this final. The same morning in Nagoya, a different Indian, Praveen Kumar, won high jump gold; the shot put bronze belongs to Parveen, listed without a surname on the result sheets.

The 15.87m Mark Was a Season Best

Wire copy compared 15.87 metres with 15.67 metres, the mark China’s Wei Enlong set for gold at Jakarta in 2018. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis used that Games-record line in his congratulations. SAI did not.

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Men’s Shot Put F46 – Final

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Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya posted the same three marks as season bests. That is the cleaner reading. Khilari’s Hangzhou gold was 16.03 metres, already past Wei’s 15.67 metres, and his Asian record throw of 16.32m for Paralympic silver in Paris still sits 45 centimetres beyond what he threw in Nagoya.

KHILARI AT THE MAJOR FINALS

The IPC athlete file still lists his Paris silver in F46 shot put from September 4, 2024, when Canada’s Greg Stewart won at 16.38 metres and Croatia’s Luka Bakovic took bronze at 16.27 metres. Khilari was six centimetres off Stewart and five centimetres up on Bakovic. Nagoya was a quieter distance and a heavier medal.

WHAT WE KNOW

• Winning mark: 15.87 metres on the sixth put, logged by SAI as a season best.
• Hangzhou gold: 16.03 metres on October 26, 2023, already past Wei Enlong’s 15.67 metres from Jakarta 2018.
• Paris standard: 16.32 metres for silver, still his best recorded throw.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• Games record tag: No official results sheet published in the first hours showed 15.87 metres replacing 16.03 metres as the Asian Para Games record.

A bicycle fall at nine fractured Khilari’s left hand; delayed healing brought gangrene and limited movement in the arm. He threw javelin and discus while training as a mechanical engineer, then moved to shot put after a shoulder injury in competition. The Nagoya gold fits that longer grind more than it fits a record graphic.

Mohd Yasser Climbed From Last to Silver

Yasser’s 15.06 metres is the throw that turned a title defense into a shutout. He had already stood on this podium. At Jakarta in 2018 he took bronze at 14.22 metres behind Wei’s 15.67 metres and Kazakhstan’s Ravil Mansurbayev at 14.66 metres.

Hangzhou went the other way. Khilari won at 16.03 metres, Wei held silver at 14.93 metres, India’s Rohit Kumar took bronze at 14.56 metres, and Yasser finished last in a five-man final at 13.84 metres. Paris was no kinder: Khilari silver, Yasser eighth at 14.21 metres, Rohit ninth at 14.10 metres.

The 15.06 metres in Nagoya is 1.22 metres beyond that Hangzhou last place and 85 centimetres beyond his Paris eighth. He lost a hand at age eight in a husk-machine accident, trains out of SBS Athletics club in Sangrur, and lists Malerkotla, Punjab, as home. Rohit, the Hangzhou bronze medallist, was not on this podium. Parveen was.

That is the part a single gold cannot show. India now has a second F46 putter throwing in the mid-15s on the same day as the world-level closer, and a third at 14.94 metres, which would have been close to Yasser’s own Jakarta bronze.

What F46 Shot Put Asks of a Thrower

F46 is a standing throws class for athletes with a unilateral upper-limb impairment: an amputation above or below the elbow, or an equivalent loss of muscle power or range. They put from a circle like any other shot putter and have to send force from the hips and legs through one working arm. World Para Athletics groups them with F45 in the F45-46 upper-limb field classes.

HOW THE CLASS IS SET UP

• Stance: Standing, not a seated throw; the circle and stop board follow the same geometry as open shot put.
• Impairment: One arm affected at the shoulder or elbow, or an equivalent limb deficiency; F45 covers both arms.
• Power: Hips and legs supply the put because the impaired arm cannot match a two-hand athletic throw.
• Shot: Open and under-20 men in F45 and F46 throw a 6.00 kilogram implement under World Para Athletics rules.

That 6.00 kilogram ball is the same weight used by F42 to F44 men. The class does not shrink the implement to make up for the missing arm. Distance is still distance, which is why a 1-2-3 in F46 is a depth claim, not a points shuffle.

An All-Indian Podium Replaced China’s Old Mark

Wei Enlong’s 15.67 metres was the Asian Para Games standard coming out of Jakarta. Khilari broke it in Hangzhou at 16.03 metres and beat Wei head to head, with the Chinese thrower down at 14.93 metres for silver. Three years later the Chinese flag was gone from this podium and three Indian ones were on it, even though the winning distance had dropped.

MEN’S F46 SHOT PUT AT THREE GAMES

THE F46 LINE

1. October 10, 2018: Wei Enlong wins Jakarta at 15.67 metres; Yasser takes bronze at 14.22 metres.
2. October 26, 2023: Khilari wins Hangzhou at 16.03 metres; Wei silver; Rohit bronze; Yasser last at 13.84 metres.
3. September 4, 2024: Khilari takes Paralympic silver at 16.32 metres; Yasser eighth at 14.21 metres.
4. October 21, 2026: Khilari, Yasser and Parveen take gold, silver and bronze in Nagoya.

The other Indian F46 throw on the opening days was javelin. Rinku won at 65.11 metres and Ajeet Singh took silver at 65.02 metres, nine centimetres back, with Indonesia’s Saktyono third at 55.30 metres. Shot put then finished the job the javelin started: India already had the top two in the class, and on Wednesday it took the third step as well.

Discus Had Already Gone 1-2-3

Tuesday’s men’s discus F43/F44/F62/F64 final had already given India a full podium, in a four-athlete field ranked on Raza points because more than one class threw together. Devender Kumar (F44) won gold at 49.71 metres for 781 points. Rakesh (F44) took silver at 49.35 metres for 771 points, 36 centimetres and 10 points back. Pardeep Kumar (F64) threw the longest ball of the competition, a personal-best 51.15 metres, and still took bronze on 669 points because the table weights the classes differently.

That discus result and this shot put result are not the same kind of sweep. Discus mixed classes and used a points table; F46 shot put was a single class ranked on raw distance. Three Indians throwing 15.87, 15.06 and 14.94 metres would have finished 1-2-3 against anyone in the field, including a healthy Wei.

India closed October 20 with 35 medals, nine gold, 11 silver and 15 bronze, after a day that also included Deepthi Jeevanji’s 400 metres T20 title and Nishad Kumar’s high jump T47 gold at 2.04 metres. Hangzhou 2023 had produced 111 medals and 29 gold for fifth place. Nagoya is still being scored, and China still sits where it usually sits in the table. The F46 circle is the place India has already closed.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Is the Difference Between F45 and F46 Shot Put?

F45 is for athletes with impairments in both arms at the shoulder or elbow, comparable to bilateral above-elbow amputations. F46 is the one-arm version of that group, which is why Khilari, Yasser and Parveen can generate a full standing put from the legs and the remaining arm. Both classes share the same implement weight in open men’s competition.

How Heavy Is the Shot in Men’s F46?

Open and under-20 men in F45 and F46 throw a 6.00 kilogram shot, matching F42, F43 and F44. Under-17 men in F45 and F46 drop to 5.00 kilograms. The Nagoya gold was thrown with the senior 6.00 kilogram ball.

Did India Sweep F46 Shot Put at Hangzhou in 2023?

No. Khilari won gold at 16.03 metres, Wei Enlong of China took silver at 14.93 metres, and Rohit Kumar won bronze at 14.56 metres. Yasser, the Jakarta bronze medallist, finished last of five at 13.84 metres. Nagoya is the first all-Indian podium in the event at these Games.

How Close Was Khilari to Paralympic Gold in Paris?

Six centimetres. Greg Stewart of Canada won at 16.38 metres, Khilari recorded 16.32 metres for silver, and Luka Bakovic of Croatia took bronze at 16.27 metres. That 16.32 metres remains Khilari’s best listed mark, 45 centimetres beyond the 15.87 metres that won Nagoya.

The sixth put landed at 15.87 metres, short of Hangzhou, short of Paris, and still enough for gold with two teammates on the steps. He turns 37 two days later.