Aled Davies takes F42 Shot Put gold in Doha
Aled Davies has won Team GB's first gold medal of the IPC Athletics World Championships in the F42 Shot Put, throwing a championship record of 14.95m in the final round.
Davies threw 14.88m in the penultimate round before he launched the shot out to 14.95m to claim gold, just 10 weeks after undergoing a hernia operation.
He commented after his victory:
“It’s probably not the performance I wanted, but I came here and I won a major title and that’s what matters at the end of the day. I keep preaching that if it wasn’t for the medical team, I wouldn’t be here."
"I know I didn’t perform as well as I could have, but I got the gold medal and that’s what it’s all about.”
It is the second medal of the Championships for the British team after David Weir’s marathon silver staged in London in April.
British Athletics medal tally:
Gold: Aled Davies – F42 Shot Put
Silver: David Weir - Marathon
