Rio de Janeiro: India’s Amit Kumar Saroha missed a bronze medal by a whisker in the men’s F51 club throw competition at the Rio Paralympic Games yesterday. The 31-year-old Haryana para-athlete was leading initially in the six-round competition with a best throw of 26.63m— which he came up in his second attempt before eventually losing his way later to fall out of medal bracket and finish fourth.

2012 London Paralympics gold winner Zeljko Dimitruevic of Serbia took the top spot with a world record throw of 29.91m, while Milos Mitic (26.84m), also of Serbia, and Marian Kureja (26.82m) of Slovakia bagged the silver and bronze respectively.