Tokyo Paralympics 2020:- Nishad Kumar wins silver medal in high jump and Vinod Kumar lost bronze medal in discus throw as he finds ineligible

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 Nishad Kumar’s medal winning jump was 2.06m and he also created an asian record with this mark. 41 year old Vinod Kumar lost bronze medal in discus throw F52 event as he finds ineligible. Bhavinaben has won silver medal before Nishad on the same day.

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Nishad Kumar bags silver medal and Vinod Kumar lost bronze medal
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Para high jumper of India Nishad Kumar wins silver medal in the high jump T47 event of tokyo paralympics. His medal winning jump was 2.06m and he also created an asian record with this mark. It is India’s second medal in the paralympics.

In this event, USA’s Roderick Townsend won gold medal with the height of 2.15m and Dallas Wise won bronze medal with the 2.06m height. Wise and Nishad were on the same position but Nishad  had crossed the mark of 2.02m in his first attempt while Wise took two attempts. As a result, Nishad won silver medal. India’s Rampal Chahar finished at fifth position with a jump of 1.94m in this event.

#Silver Medal for 🇮🇳#Athletics: Nishad Kumar wins silver medal with a best effort of 2.06m in Men’s High Jump T47 event.#Tokyo2020 | #Paralympics | #Praise4Para pic.twitter.com/v5042FmCSX

— Doordarshan Sports (@ddsportschannel) August 29, 2021

On the same day, 41 year old Vinod Kumar was won the bronze medal in discus throw F52 event of Tokyo paralympics but some competitors challenged the result. After classification, Vinod Kumar lost his bronze medal in F52 category as he finds ineligible in disability classification assessment by the competition panel. 

“…the panel was unable to allocate the athlete Vinod Kumar NPC India with a sport class and the athlete was designated as Classification not completed (CNC)”, the organisers said in a statement.
“The athlete is therefore ineligible for the men’s F52 Discus medal event and his results in that competition are void”, it added.
Vinod Kumar was threw 19.91m long discus to clinch the medal and was created an asian record with this distance but now he has lost the medal due to ineligibility. He is a BSF man and his father was fought in the 1971 Indo-Pak war.

Piotr Kosewicz of Poland threw 20.02m long discus to win gold medal. Croatia’s Vilimir Sandor won bronze medal by throwing 19.98m long discus in this event.

Vinod Kumar’s legs were injured while training after joining BSF, falling off a cliff in Leh that left him bed-ridden for almost a decade and during this time he lost his parents. 

Classification is done in the paralympics on the basis of type and extent of disability of the players and different categories are  given to the players. According to this classification, players in the same category compete to each other. Vinod Kumar’s classification was done on August 22.

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