Paralympics: Legnante wins gold in women's F12 shot put

46-year-old claims third Paralympic title of her career

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Sep 06 2024
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Paralympics: Legnante wins gol

Italy's Assunta Legnante won the shot put gold medal in the F12 category for the visually impaired at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on Friday.
    Her winning throw of 14.54 metres put her ahead of Uzbekistan's Safiya Burkhanova (14.12) and China's Yuping Zhao (12.21).
    It is the 46-year-old's second medal of the Paris Games after she took silver in the discus and her sixth Paralympic medal overall.
    Those medals include the shot put golds she won at London in 2012 and Rio in 2016, while she won silvers in the discus and the shot put in Tokyo three years ago.