Praveen Kumar bags silver medal in high jump T64 with Asian record
Tokyo Paralympics: India’s Praveen Kumar bags silver medal in high jump T64 with Asian record
Praveen Kumar (18 years) managed the best jump of 2.07m to finish second and bags silver medal in high jump T64 with Asian record, India have now won four high jump medals at Tokyo 2020.
A congenital impairment notwithstanding, 18-year-old Paralympics silver medallist Praveen Kumar was such a sports freak in his school days that he googled on the internet to find out how to take up para-athletics and take part in the show-piece.
Praveen, a son of a poor farmer at a village near Jewar in Gautam Buddha Nagar district,
clinched silver medal in the men's high jump T64/T44 event of the Paralympics by setting a
new Asian record of 2.07m.
The jump also helped Praveen Kumar improve his own Asian record set at the World Para Athletics FAZZA Grand Prix in Dubai earlier this year. Praveen Kumar had won the gold at the Dubai event with a jump of 2.05 metres.
This was India’s fourth high jump medal at the Tokyo Paralympics.
Nishad Kumar (silver men’s high jump T47), Mariyappan Thangavelu (silver in men’s high jump T42) and Sharad Kumar (bronze in men’s high jump T42) are the others in the list.
