Dubai: The UAE had a field day winning five medals even as Algerian athletes dominated the podium on a record-breaking second day at the Ninth Fazza World Para-Athletics Championship Dubai 2017 at the Dubai Club for the Disabled Stadium on Tuesday.

Having won seven medals on the opening day on Monday, the UAE added another five medals — all of them bronze — on Tuesday through Abdullah Hayayei, Mohammad Al Ka’abi, Noura Al Ketbi, Thuraya Al Za’abi and Mariam Matroushi.

Hayayei clinched bronze in the shot put wheelchair men’s F34/57 final with a distance of 9.52m to go with his silver medal in the javelin wheelchair F34/37 class on the first day. Azerbaijan’s Samir Nabiyev (13.30m) took the gold, while Kazakhstan’s Pavel Sidorchuk (10.86m) claimed the silver.

Al Ka’abi grabbed the second bronze in the men’s shot put F35/36/38 with a best throw of 11.29m to add to his gold in the discus F35/36/38 event. Azerbaijan’s Rufat Rafiyev (13.66m) won the gold and Latvia’s Edgars Bergs (13.71m) took silver.

Rio Paralympic champion Asmahan Boudjadar, meanwhile, held off a strong challenge from five Emirati athletes in the shot put wheelchair women’s F32/33 final setting a new African record of 5.88m to clinch her second gold medal. Her Algerian compatriot Mounia Gasmi (4.86m) claimed silver, while Noura Al Ketbi clinched the bronze with her second throw of 4.13m over teammates Aishah Salem Bani Khaled (3.54m), Meera Al Kassab (3.31m), Thekra Al Kaabi (3.01m) and Sara Al Qubaisi (2.35m).

The experienced Al Za’abi claimed UAE’s fourth bronze medal in the discus wheelchair women’s F34/53/54 final being the best in the F34 with her second throw of 14.06m, edging past compatriots Latifa Al Suwaidi (10.95m) and Suaad Al Hammadi (8.46m). This was the second bronze medal for Al Za’abi after securing third place in the javelin wheelchair women’s F33/34 class on the opening day.

Fatema Nedham, who made history at Rio 2016 as Bahrain’s first-ever female Paralympic Games medallist when she won the shot put F53, won the Dubai title setting a new Asian record (F53) of 10.14m setting while her teammate Amal Ali (11.56m) claimed the silver.

UAE’s fifth medal came in the javelin women’s F37/38/44/46 final when Mariam Matroushi (F46) stood third with a throw of 29.01m behind Norway’s Ida Nesse (32.62m) and Japan’s Yukiko Kato (32.91m).

UAE’s medal hope Siham Al Rasheedy was placed fourth in the hotly-contested javelin wheelchair women’s F56/57 final despite her best effort of 20.67 in the F57 class.

Meanwhile, Algeria’s Safia Djelal set a new javelin F57 world record even as the total number of records bettered in two days of competition went up to 15 — of which seven are African and another four each Asian and world records.