Sviridov had previously thrown 16.32 metres at the World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai in 2019, but, with his fourth attempt in the Paralympic final, recorded 16.45m.

He then bettered this again on his sixth and final attempt with 16.67m.

His nearest challengers were Yassine Guenichi of Tunisia with a new African record of 15.12m and Sebastian Dietz of Germany with his season best of 14.81m.

Thirty-one-year-old Sviridov was the second RPC shot putter to clinch victory at the Paralympics, with Albert Khinchagov triumphing in the men's F37 event.

This was Sviridov's second Paralympic medal, after he previously secured bronze in the men's F36 long jump at London 2012.

He has won world titles in both long jump and shot put.

The first of these came at Christchurch in New Zealand in 2011, when he triumphed in the T36 long jump. At the same event he was also the F35/36 shot put silver medallist.

Two years later in the French city of Lyon, Sviridov went one better to earn gold in the F36 shot put. He added another silver medal in that event in the Qatari capital of Doha in 2015.

He won gold for a second time at Dubai in in the United Arab Emirates, when he set a world record.

Sviridov is a two-time European champion in the F36 shot put, triumphing at Swansea 2014 and Grosseto 2016. He had to settle for silver at Bydgoszcz in Poland in 2021, finishing second to his compatriot Alan Kokoity's championship record throw of 15.92m.

The new Paralympic champion has cerebral palsy.

He first took up Para-athletics in his home city of Novocherkassk at the age of 12, and made his international debut in 2008.

Sviridov is now based in Rostov-on-Don.

His performances at London 2012 saw him awarded the Order for Merits to the Fatherland (second grade) in the Russian Federation, and he is also a Honoured Master of Sport in the Russian Federation.