Italian para athlete shatters Men's 100m T72 world record

KOBE, Japan, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Italian para athlete Carlo Fabio Marcello Calcagni won the Men's 100m T72 Final with a new world record at the Para Athletics World Championships here on Friday.

The frame-running athlete, 55, clocked 15.39 seconds at the Universiade Memorial Stadium in the central Japanese port city of Kobe.

On the first day of the para athletics event, Calcagni shattered his own world rec