World Para Athletics Championships: Jonathan Broom-Edwards retains title with shared gold

Broom-Edwards has competed astatine 2 Paralympics for Great Britain

Britain's Jonathan Broom-Edwards and Polish rival Maciej Lepiato shared precocious leap golden connected a melodramatic evening of enactment astatine the Para Athletics World Championships successful Paris.

However, they had first-time clearances each the mode up to 2.05m.

Officials gave the brace the enactment of a jump-off, but they alternatively opted to stock the title.

"We person been rivals for truthful galore years," Broom-Edwards, the defending satellite champion, told BBC Sport. "Maciej is an astonishing jock and we person some travel backmost from Achilles ruptures - it's astir poetic.

"I don't caput that I americium sharing a golden with idiosyncratic who has pushed maine to beryllium amended passim my vocation and I volition crook it up for adjacent year's Paralympics due to the fact that that is the 1 that counts."

The competition's decision besides brought backmost memories of the Olympic precocious leap last successful Tokyo 2 years agone erstwhile Qatar's Mutaz Barshim and Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi besides shared gold.

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This golden was peculiarly saccharine for Tokyo Paralympic champion Broom-Edwards, who tore his hamstring 8 weeks ago.

"Considering my play truthful acold and the information that this is my archetypal contention of the year, it is fantastic to clasp my title," added the 35-year-old.

"I felt I had the tallness successful maine but it was a shame to miss my archetypal effort astatine 2.07 and I jarred my genu connected the second, but successful the extremity I person done what I came present to do."

Visually impaired sprinter Zac Shaw and wheelchair racer Danny Sidbury won their archetypal planetary medals with bronzes to adhd to the GB tally.

Shaw, 27, finished the T12 100m successful a idiosyncratic champion of 10.85 seconds - conscionable 0.01 seconds down metallic medallist Mouncef Bouja of Morocco with American Noah Malone a wide victor (10.53).

Shaw has been connected the GB squad since 2015 but narrowly missed retired connected enactment for some the Rio Paralympics successful 2016 and Tokyo successful 2021, which helium admits inactive hurts.

"To travel present and beryllium connected the podium and beryllium to radical and to myself that I tin triumph a medal connected the satellite signifier means a lot," helium said.

Sidbury finished 3rd successful the T54 5,000m, won emphatically by Switzerland's Marcel Hug successful a title grounds of 9:35.78.

Londoner Sidbury moved into a bully presumption astatine the bell, and though Thailand's Prawat Wahoram was excessively beardown and took silver, the 29-year-old Briton was rewarded erstwhile helium held disconnected the situation of Kuwait's Faisal Alrajehi.

"To beryllium capable to vie astatine this level is incredibly hard and incredibly challenging but I similar a bully challenge," said Sidbury, who clocked 10:15.44.

"I americium successful bully institution connected the podium and hopefully this is simply a stepping chromatic to greater things.

"It was important to spell retired assertive if I wanted to beryllium connected the podium. With this world-class tract you person to ore and beryllium connected your A-game due to the fact that it is good margins that abstracted 2nd from fifth."