Alexandra nouchet

Para Athletics World Championships: Five world records were broken at the Para Athletics World Championships here on Thursday, the seventh day of the event which also saw Chinese athletes claim six medals and set two Asian records.

The men's 400m T12 final saw Turkish runner Serkan Yildirim, 32, smash the world record by clocking 47.47 seconds, as New Zealand's Danielle Aitchison, 22, set the women's 200m T36 record in 27.47s at the Universiade Memorial Stadium in the central Japanese port city of Kobe.

Algeria's 31-year-old Skander Djamil Athmani broke the men's 400m T13 world record in 46.44s, while his compatriot, 41-year-old Safia Djelal, shattered her own world record of women's shot put F57 with a throw of 11.62 meters, reports Xinhua.