New Delhi, Oct. 5 -- Ekta Bhyan failed to defend her World Championships crown but logged a season's best of 19.80m to take silver in women's club throw F51 to lead India's medal charge on Saturday. Soman Rana's bronze was later upgraded to silver in men's shot put F57 with Praveen Kumar taking the T64 high jump bronze. Three medals on the day took India's medal count to 18 (6 gold, 7 silver, 5 bronze). With this, 2025 edition has delivered India's best ever haul at Para World Athletics. India won 17 medals in Kobe last year. Ekta couldn't surpass Ukraine's world record holder Zoia Ovsii, who bagged gold with a season's best of 24.03m. Russia's Ekaterina Potapova, competing as a neutral athlete, was third with a season's best (18.60m). Among Indians in shot put, Paris Paralympics bronze medallist Hokato Hotozhe Sema came sixth (14.35m) and Shubham Juyal (13.72m) seventh. Hangzhou Asian Para Games silver medallist Soman Rana, with a season's best of 14.69m, has been placed in silver position as an appeal process is completed. Rana was third but was upgraded after an appeal against Brazil's Thiago Paulino Dos Santos by Saudi Arabia's Haidr Salamh. Thiago, initially second, was dropped to fifth. However, the appeals process is yet to end. Rana was placed second on the WPA website. Armyman Rana was a national level boxer. He lost his right leg in a landmine blast in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir in 2006. After his recovery, he was assigned administrative duties. However, his sporting ambitions were renewed in 2017 after he got a prosthetic leg at Pune's Army Artificial Centre. Paris Paralympics champion Praveen took bronze in high jump T64 event with a clearance of 2m....