Tokyo: Nishad Kumar India won a silver medal at the T47 T47 men’s high jump in Paralympics with an Asian record effort here on Sunday.
The 21-year-old Kumar was cleaning 2.06 m to win the silver and set Asian records.
American Dallas Wise was also awarded silver because he and Kumar cleaned the same height of 2.06 m.
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Other Indians in Fray, Ram Pal finished fifth with the best leaps of 1.94m.
T47 class is intended for athletes with unilateral upper leg disorders which results in some function losses on shoulders, elbows and wrists.
Coming from Una at Himachal Preadeh, Kumar met with an accident at the age of eight which resulted in the loss of his right hand.
He also signed Covid-19 earlier this year while practicing in the Sai Center in Bengaluru.
“Really happy that Nishad Kumar won a silver medal at the T47 men’s high leap.
He is an extraordinary athlete with extraordinary skills and tenacity.
Congratulations on him,” Tweeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
More good news comes from Tokyo! Really happy that Nishad Kumar won a silver medal in a high leap of men …
https://t.co/zkz6wn8Exf- Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 1630238184000nishad jumped to glory 🥈! Congratulations Chuit @nishad_hj! We just won the 2nd medal at # Tokyo2020 …
https://t.co/nFypQxwikwik- Anurag Thakur (@ianuragThakur) 1630238606000man Congratulations to the high jumper Nishad Kumar to win a silver medal on the t47 t47 jump male event …
https://t.co/ bjg3bio4hj- Indian vice president (@vpsecretariat) 1630239834000an #silver for India on national sports days.
Congratulations to Nishad Kumar for Stellar’s performance.
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https://t.co/IFDQMeftow- Rahul Gandhi (@rahlgandandhi) 1630238550000Kumar has won a gold medal at the T46 / 47 men’s high jump at the Fazza World of the Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai earlier this year.
He began to compete in the paragretics Athletics in 2009.
This is the second medal in India from the match after Bhavinaben Patel won silver at the Women’s 4-class table tennis program the previous day.
Patel became only the second Indian woman who won a medal in the match after losses 0-3 from the world number one Chinese Paddler Ying Zhou in the final.