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Nishad Kumar becomes the second Indian paralympic athlete to have won two gold medals at the Asian Para Games on Tuesday, taking the total to 14 medals, including five golden.
On the second day of competition at Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium, India added five gold, four silver, and five bronze medals, bringing the total medals total to 20 ( 13 gold, five silver, and five bronze ) and is China’s best record ( 13 gold, five silver, and five bronze ).
Only the fourth Indian to have won two gold medals at an Asiatic Para Games event, Nishad, Ankur Dhama, and Sheetal Devi, who are both competing in the men’s high jump T47 competition, took the top spot.
On Monday, he had won gold in the T47 long leap competition.
Nishad won the gold medal on Tuesday and established a new Games history by sailing over 2.04 meters.
In the previous Hangzhou, China, Ankur and Sheetal both won two silver trophies, each in the men’s 5000m and 1500m T11 and the children’s mixed team competition.
For athletes who have lower limb impairments, the T47 classification is appropriate.
When Nishad was just six years old, a grass-cutting system cut off his right arm on his home farm in Himachal Pradesh’s Amb.
India’s gold rush began the day with Deepthi Jeevanji, who won a second consecutive Asian Para Games silver medal in the children’s 400m T20 function while completing a Games record day of 56.36sec.
The 23-year-old from Telangana, who likewise holds the Eastern history, has won gold at the 2024 Para World Championships twice and is also a record-holder for Asian records. In the same competition, she won the Paralympic copper medal.
Athletes with academic disabilities are included in the T20 categorization. The processing of information, attention, and the execution of race plans or defensive strategies are challenges for athletes in this group.
Deepthi’s relatives, who both work as laborers in their little town in Warangal, are from a remote town in Telangana’s Warangal. A physical education teacher at her college initially saw her as a running prodigy.
After being tested for intellectual disability, best great Pullela Gopichand, whose suggestion she finally found support, suggested that she should get help.
After her steady global performances, Deepthi revealed how important a role her families played in supporting her ambitions despite being made fun of by her fellow villagers for supporting her.
As India dominated the children’s 200m T12 competition, veteran sprinter Simran even broke the record for the Games and won her first gold medal.
Simran surpassed Iran’s Hajar Safarzadeh by clocking in at 24.80sec. With a time of 25.23sec, Tejalben was next for her debut at the western showpiece.
Athletes with average physical impairment fall under the T12 classification.
After her former link Umar Saifi was banned for a cheating offense, Simran, 26, who won a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, is returning on the road with her new guideline Shivam.
” My name is on the target list, and even the Asian record ( 24.46sec) is there.” However, my body felt uncomfortable because my treatment had been slow. After winning the gold, she claimed,” I was pretty tired after my temperature race.”
Simran had won gold in this competition’s Hangzhou release in 2023. She will then compete in the 100-meter race, where she won silver at the past Para Games.
Pranav Soorma won gold in the men’s ball put combined F51/52/53 function with an Eastern report, while Ram Ratan Singh won gold in a nation-wide 1-2 finish.
In his third try to take the top spot, the 32-year-old Soorma set a new Asian report by placing his ball at 11.66 meters at the club throw F51 occurrence, which he had previously won gold inside, as well as in the 2024 Paralympics.
Singh, 31, won the gold medal with a toss of 10.35m on his next try. Both Singh and Soorma are F51 players.
Hemami recorded a long distance, but he was placed in the middle of Soorma and Singh based on the Raza Point System, which is used to determine the placements of different classifications of players in a combined function.
After making classification adjustments, the system converts an adult’s performance to a standardized point average. Because their results are weighted in relation to their classification, athletes with higher or higher levels of impairment may rank higher in a combined celebration yet when competing for less time or at a shorter range.
The F51 classification applies to players who have a high trunk, legs, and hands action requirement and a moderate arm movements requirement.
If there aren’t enough competitors in a special event, athletes with similar classifications may be groupbed up.
In a four-athlete discipline, Devender Kumar won gold in the men’s shot throw F44/64 competition, taking home all three medals that were available.
Robert and Pardeep Kumar won the gold and bronze, both, while Devender won the gold with a throw of 49.71m.
Lower leg impairment categorization are represented by the F44 and F64. F64 players compete with a implant while F44 athletes use a surgery.
In the children’s 200-meter T35 competition, Preeti Pal won gold.
In their respective competitions, Hokato Hotozhe Sema ( men’s shot put F56/57 ), Ayush Verma ( men’s javelin F53/54), and Praveen Sharma ( men’s shot put F11 ), won bronze medals.
SOURCE : SIASAT
