Rinku Hooda took gold on Monday, 19 October, in the F46 javelin at the Asian Para Games in Nagoya, with 65.11 metres. Silver went to compatriot Ajeet Singh, 65.02 m. Bronze went to Indonesia’s R Saktyono, 55.30 m. There were three throwers in the final. This is not a world record announced here and not a Paralympic medal.

India Today writes that Ajeet led with 65.02 m on his fourth attempt. Hooda opened at 56.17 m, went past 60, then threw 65.11 m last. The gap is nine centimetres. Class F46 is for athletes with an above- or below-elbow amputation, or an equivalent impairment.

After the contest Hooda dedicated the medal to his mother, who died on 8 August. “I wanted to win this gold medal for my mother,” he told PTI from Nagoya. He is 27, from Dhamar in Haryana, and trains at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Rohtak. He resumed training on 19 August, after the 13-day mourning, lightly; a Grade 1 shoulder tear then kept him out for about 20 days. He says he has recovered, but still tapes the shoulder.

India Today notes that he held up a photograph of his mother, with the message “I love you, Maa”, and that he had brought the picture on purpose. That is his gesture, not an organisers’ rite. We do not give his mother’s name: the sources do not.

At three, his left arm was caught in a paddy-sowing machine and amputated, PTI writes. He ran at school, helped on the farm; Amit Kumar Saroha showed him the javelin. Bronze at the 2018 Asian Para Games, silver in 2022, world gold in 2025. At the Paris Paralympics in 2024 he was fifth. His target, he says, is a medal in Los Angeles in 2028. That is an intention, not a reserved place.

Monday’s closed fact is the ranking: 65.11, 65.02, 55.30. The rest — the mourning, the photograph, 2028 — is what he said and showed, not an extra sporting verdict.

Image: Mizuho Athletic Stadium, Nagoya, 19 September 2026, Aspere, CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The Asian Games arena, not Monday’s throw and not a portrait of Hooda.

Sources consulted: 'I wanted to win this gold for my mother': Rinku Hooda triumphs amid grief at Asian Para Games — The Times of India; Asian Para Games: Rinku Hooda wins gold, dedicates medal to late mother — India Today.