Tokyo : India’s Nishad Kumar clinched a silver medal in the men’s high jump T47 event at the ongoing Tokyo Paralympics, here on Sunday.
Kumar made a jump of 2.06m to win the silver and set an Asian record. American Dallas Wise also bagged the silver as he and Kumar cleared the same height of 2.06m.
USA’s Roderick Townsend and Dallas Wise won gold and bronze medals respectively. Townsend made the jump of 2.15m while Wise recorded a jump of 2.06 m.
This was India’s second medal of the Tokyo Paralympics after Bhavinaben Patel won a silver in women’s singles table tennis class 4 event earlier in the day.
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