Tokyo Paralympics: India’s Vinod Kumar Wins Bronze In Men’s Discus Throw (F52)

India’s Vinod Kumar clinched a bronze medal in males’s discus throw (F52) on the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday. Vinod threw a greatest effort of 19.91m within the ultimate to safe the bronze medal. He additionally set a brand new Asian report within the course of. Piotr Kosewicz of Poland received the gold medal with an effort of 20.02m whereas Croatia’s Velimir Sandor took silver with a throw of 19.98m. Vinod had began off the ultimate with an try of 17.46m. He, nonetheless, stored bettering his mark and managed to set the medal-winning mark in his fifth and penultimate try.

After his preliminary try, Vinod improved to 18.32m in his second throw. His third throw was a contact under at 17.80m however Vinod improved in his subsequent try with a throw of 19.12m earlier than the medal-clinching fifth throw of 19.91m.

He completed off the ultimate with one other spectacular throw of 19.81m. Vinod’s earlier private greatest had been an try of 19.29m whereas his season greatest was 18.52m.

Vinod’s bronze took India’s medal haul on the Tokyo Paralympics to 3, with the nation successful two silver medals earlier within the day.

Promoted

Within the morning, India’s Bhavinaben Patel misplaced 7-11, 5-11, 6-11 to China’s Ying Zhou within the ladies’s singles desk tennis class 4 ultimate to safe the silver medal. She grew to become solely the second Indian lady — the primary being Deepa Malik — to win a medal on the Paralympics.

Within the night session, Nishad Kumar received one other silver medal for the nation with a bounce of two.06m within the ultimate of the boys’s excessive bounce (T46/47) occasion.