South Korea in gold haul

Spain's intellectually disabled basketball team won gold

South Korea emerged from the shadow of Great Britain's dominance of the sixth day to claim four golds at the Paralympics in Sydney.

The haul gave South Korea its best day so far with the medals spread across powerlifting, shooting and archery and included the setting of three world records.

But in contrast to South Korea's joy, India's Yadvendra Vashishta was distraught after learning that his world record throw of 14.17m in the amputee/polio shot putt final was ruled out.

The gold medal would have been his country's first of the games.

Yadvendra Vashishta was disqualified in the shot putt

At the Sydney International Archery Park Koreans dominated the men's events, taking gold in the individual standing and gold and silver in the W2 wheelchair.

Lee Hong-Gu, 35, finished the wheelchair competition with his fifth world mark in Sydney, ignoring the pouring rain to defeat countryman Jung Young-Hoo 113-103.

A world best was also set by An Tae-Sung in the standing contest when he scored 108 to Ukrainian Serhiy Atamanenko's 100.

"I've waited 12 years for this medal and my heart is crying inside," said an emotional An.

Italy's Paola Fantato won the women's individual ahead of Britain's Kathy Smith with reigning champion Hifumi Suzuki of Japan third.

Tainted

The drug tainted sport of powerlifting, the world's fastest growing Paralympic discipline, saw two gold medals and two world records.

Korea's Kwak Jung-Yong announced his retirement after finishing second to Britain's Anthony Peddle in the 48kg class.

Kwak, winner four years ago, announced his retirement after failing to get the medal he wanted.

"This is my last competition," he said. "I feel disappointed because I wanted to get a better result. I was under a lot of pressure."

In the men's 52kg, Korea's Jung Keum-Jong, a three time Paralympic champion, smashed his own world record of 179kg by lifting 190kg on his third attempt.

France's Pierre Fairbank celebrates his win in 200-metre T53 final

Two shooting golds were up for grabs on the final day of competition with Sweden's Jonas Jacobsson defending his title in the mixed 50m free rifle.

But Korea stole Sweden's thunder, winning five golds to four on the final shooting medal table when Choi Jong-In won the 50m free pistol from Azerbaijan's Elena Taranova.

On the track, a world record tumbled in the 5,000m for amputees.

Greg Evans of the United States and Spain's Jose Conde, the Atlanta gold medallist, were neck and neck until the American moved up a gear on the final lap to clock 14m.39s.

First gold

Sirly Tiik gave Estonia its first gold by easily winning the inaugural javelin title for the intellectually disabled.

Cheri Becerra of the United States won her second gold when she finished ahead of Canada's Chantal Petitclerc in the 400m wheelchair final while Canada's Earle Connor, the first amputee athlete to break 13 seconds in the 100m, lowered his own world mark to 12.61s.

The US and Spain shared the honours in the pool, each winning four gold followed by Australia with three.

Britain, Ireland and Portugal meanwhile claimed golds in the mixed individual Boccia finals -- contested by athletes with cerebral palsy.

Poland won the women's team epee fencing gold and France the men's.