Vinod Kumar on Monday lost his bronze medal within the males’s discus throw final F52 on the Tokyo Paralympics. The resolution used to be taken by the Tokyo Paralympics Technical Delegates, who mentioned that the Indian para athlete used to be now now not eligible for Discus F52 class.
An reputable commentary used to be launched on this regard, which mentioned: “Following re-examination by the classification panel,athlete Vinod Kumar is ineligible for the Men’s F52 Discus medal event and his finally ends up in that opponents are void.”
“…The panel used to be unable to allocate the athlete Vinod Kumar from NPC India with a sport class and the athlete used to be designated as Classification now now not Executed (CNC),” the organisers mentioned in an announcement.
“The athlete is subsequently ineligible for the Men’s F52 Discus medal event and his finally ends up in that opponents are void,” it added.
“Following re-examination by the classification panel,athlete #VinodKumar is ineligible for the Men’s F52 Discus medal event and his finally ends up in that opponents are void”: Tokyo Paralympics Legitimate verbal substitute #ParalympicsTokyo2020 #Paralympics https://t.co/HoGQByYlyR pic.twitter.com/Jmqce1PC46
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Vinod had secured the bronze medal after recording at 19.91m, his most keen throw within the fifth strive. He carried out third within the wait on of Piotr Kosewicz (20.02m) of Poland and Velimir Sandor (19.98m) of Croatia.
As per a document in PTI, Vinod’s classification in F52, which is for athletes with impaired muscle energy, restricted fluctuate of motion, limb deficiency or leg size difference, used to be performed on August 22 by the organisers.
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Earlier within the day, shooter Avani Lekhara created historical previous by turning into the first Indian feminine to earn a Paralympics gold medal. Avani gained the females’s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 title defeating China’s Zhang Cuiping (silver) and Ukraine’s Iryna Shchetnik (bronze).
Avani also equalled the present WR to perceive the females’s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 class with her gold medal-winning efficiency in Tokyo. The 19-yr-historical carried out with a world document equalling complete of 249.6, which is also a brand contemporary Paralympic document.
