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Welsh duo Funmi Oduwaiye and Bree Cronin won silver and bronze in the women's F42-44/F61-64 discus final in Glasgow.
Oduwaiye, 23, took the lead with an opening throw of 38.52 metres, a Commonwealth Games record for the F44 category.
Cronin lay in second after her opening throw of 34.88m, before improving to a season's best of 36.00m.
However, the gold was won by defending champion Nigeria's Goodness Nwachuku, who threw a world record for the F42 category with a throw of 39.66m with her final throw.
F42 and F44 scores in World Para Athletics multi-class events are calculated using the Raza Points System, a mathematical formula based on a Gompertz function that converts an athlete's physical distance or height (in metres) into a standardised point score.
Nwachuku's disability level saw her distance have a greater point score than that of Oduwaiye.
The pair, who train together in…
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