Mon Sep 02 14:25:49 UTC 2024: – Nishad Kumar of Team India won silver in the Para Athletics Men’s High Jump T47 Final at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games with a season’s best effort of 2.04m
– This is Nishad’s second successive silver medal at the Paralympic Games, having won silver in Tokyo in 2021
– T47 category is for competitors with a below elbow or wrist amputation or impairment
– Nishad’s silver medal was India’s third in para-athletics and seventh overall at the Paris Paralympics
– Preethi Pal made history by becoming the first Indian woman track and field athlete to win two medals at the Paralympics, winning bronze in the 200m T35 category with a personal best time of 30.01 seconds
– Preethi is the second Indian woman to win two medals in a single Paralympics after shooter Avani Lekhara won gold and bronze in Tokyo 2021

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