Tokyo Paralympics: Nishad Kumar received a silver medal within the males’s excessive leap occasion.© Twitter
Deepa Malik, the President of the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) on Sunday congratulated Nishad Kumar for profitable a silver medal within the males’s excessive leap occasion on the ongoing Tokyo Paralympics. With a leap of two.06m, Kumar sealed the silver medal and likewise went on to create an Asian file. “Congratulations to Nishad for profitable the tremendous silver and what a efficiency, creating a brand new Asian file and his private finest. Having recovered from Covid-19 and beginning as younger in 2019. Take a look at the way in which he has taken his sport to new heights, he’s doing higher than his finest and this speaks concerning the high quality of preparation the athletes have had,” mentioned Deepa in a video shared by PCI.
“Recovering from COVID and but competing in opposition to world-record holders, creating new Asian file, beating the legends and selecting the silver, congratulates Nishad,” she added.
USA’s Roderick Townsend received gold whereas Dallas Clever shared the second spot with Nishad. Townsend made the leap of two.15m whereas Clever recorded a leap of two.06 m. Nishad and Clever each completed on the identical mark, however Nishad had crossed the two.02 mark in his first try whereas Clever took two.
India’s Rampal Chahar completed on the fifth spot with a leap of 1.94m.
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Earlier within the day, India’s para desk tennis participant Bhavinaben received silver as she misplaced the gold medal match to China’s Zhou Ying 3-0 within the girls’s singles – Class 4 within the ongoing Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday.
With this silver medal, Bhavinaben is the primary desk tennis participant ever to win a medal on the Paralympics for India and the second feminine athlete after PCI chief Deepa Malik to realize this feat. Deepa had received silver at Rio 2016 in girls’s shot put.
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