Australia's Rheed McCracken has had to settle for his second silver of the World Para Athletics Championships, despite watching the 100m T34 world record holder get disqualified for a false start.

McCracken added the 100m to his 400m silver a day earlier, once again unable to get past Thailand's Chaiwat Rattana at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

It marked the third time in two years that the pair have shared a podium at major meets, with McCracken taking bronze as Rattana claimed 800m T34 gold at last year's Paris Paralympics.

Neither had to compete with world record holder Walid Ktila after the 40-year-old 14-time world champion was disqualified for a false start.

"I executed the race I wanted to and it was just too fast in the back end for me. I didn't have the pace in the last

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