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Shot put gold for Saberi at Asian throwing event
Iran’s Mahdi Saberi clinched a second gold medal for the country at the Asian Throwing Championships in South Korea.
A day after Asian Games gold medalist Hossein Rasouli had won the discus throw event, Saberi walked away with the ultimate prize of the men’s shot put contest, thanks to a best throw of 19.27m.
His record was below his best attempt (19.41m) in last year’s Asian Games in Hangzhou, where Saberi settled for a fifth-place finish, but was still enough for him to edge out opponents from China and the Philippines, who ended their campaigns with 19.26m and 19.22m respectively.