Tokyo Paralympics: Vinod Kumar Loses Men’s F52 Discus Bronze, Declared “Ineligible” In Classification Reassessment

Aug 30, 2021
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Tokyo Paralympics: Vinod Kumar Loses Mens F52 Discus Bronze, Declared "Ineligible" In Classification Reassessment

Vindo Kumar misplaced his males’s discus throw bronze medal at Tokyo Paralympics after classification evaluation.© PCI

Indian discus thrower Vinod Kumar on Monday misplaced his F52 class bronze medal on the Paralympics right here after being discovered ineligible in incapacity classification evaluation by the competitors panel. The 41-year-old BSF man, whose Military man father was injured throughout the 1971 Indo-Pakistan struggle, produced a greatest throw of 19.91m to complete third behind Piotr Kosewicz (20.02m) of Poland and Velimir Sandor (19.98m) of Croatia on Sunday. Nevertheless, the end result was challenged by some rivals.

“…the panel was unable to allocate the athlete Vinod Kumar from NPC India with a sport class and the athlete was designated as Classification not Accomplished (CNC),” the organisers stated in an announcement.

“The athlete is subsequently ineligible for the Males’s F52 Discus medal occasion and his leads to that competitors are void,” it added.

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F52 is for athletes with impaired muscle energy, restricted vary of motion, limb deficiency or leg size distinction, with athletes competing in seated place with cervical wire damage, spinal wire damage, amputation, and purposeful dysfunction.

Para-athletes are categorised relying on the kind and extent of their incapacity. The classification system permits athletes to compete these with an analogous degree of skill. Vinod’s classification was completed on August 22.

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