India, Sept. 29 -- Rinku Hooda, cheered on by a number of his family members, twice broke the championship record in the F46 javelin on a humid Monday evening to win India's second gold of the World Para Athletics Championships here.

The 26-year-old produced an opening throw of 63.81m to better the existing meet mark of 61.89m and take an early lead and held the pole position till the third series when Cuban Guillermo Varona Gonzalez overtook him with a 63.34m throw.

Rinku wrested back the initiative with a 66.37m throw as the championship record was rewritten thrice in the space of minutes. Double Paralympics bronze medallist and 2017 world champion Sundar Singh Gurjar upstaged Gonzalez in the fifth series with a throw of 64.76m - his ...