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Indian para athletes win 13 medals in Dubai

Indian para athletes claimed 13 medals in the season-opening Fazaa International IPC International Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai on Friday.

India won five Gold medals, three of which were won by Sundar Singh Gurjar.

Gurjar won gold in the shot put, javelin throw and discus throw events in the T 44-46 category.

Gurjar, who had missed his call in the in the javelin throw F46 category at the Paralympics last year -- the same event where India's Devendra Jhajharia eventually clinched gold, will next participate in the World Para Athletic Championship in London in July.

In the women's wheelchair shot put F-55 category, Karamjyoti Dalal claimed gold, whereas Shatabdti Awasthi won silver.

In the high jumping event, Sharad Kumar and Girisha H. Nagarajgowda won silver and bronze in the F13/20/42/44 category. Rio Paralympics medallists Mariyappan Thangavelu and Varun Bhati did not participate in the tournament.