CWMBRAN’S Kyron Duke won his fifth World Para-Athletics Championships medal tonight, claiming silver in the F41 shot put at the London Stadium behind Germany’s Niko Kappel.
Duke’s best throw of 12.28m came in the first round of the competition, while good friend Kappel extended his own world record by three centimetres with a massive 13.81m.
Kappel, who also struck Paralympic gold in Rio last year, was a class apart, with all bar one of his six attempts sailing over 13 metres.
For 24-year-old Duke, his silver means he has now medalled at four successive world championships dating back to Christchurch in 2011.
He won bronze in the javelin there before silver in the same event and bronze in the shot in Lyon two years later.
The two-time Paralympian followed those up with another javelin bronze in Doha in 2015, some 14 months after double silver at the European Championships in Swansea.
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