BIG shot-putter Tyrone Pillay pushed Team SA’s medal tally to seven at the Rio Paralympics on Monday.After a bumper day on Sunday with four medals (one gold, two silvers and a bronze) Pillay kept up the medal-winning momentum in the F42 category as he heaved the sphere a career-best 13.91m to claim bronze. That comfortably eclipsed his previous best of 13.49m and was a new national and continental best.Winner was Great Britain’s Aled Davis with a 15.97m on the day. It took a Paralympic record from Davies and a season’s best from Iran’s Salad Mohammedian (14.31) to keep Durban’s Pillay down on the lowest level of the podium.Pillay, having turned 36 on May 1, is not exactly the youngest member of the team but it showed that his birthday rather aptly falls on Worker’s Day. Such is the amount of work that this gentle giant has put in to make his mark."The guys didn’t realise I could throw this far and I came out guns blazing. Man, I respect all those guys, they’ve helped me push through...
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