“India’s Paralympic stars: Preeti Pal becomes first female pair and Nishad Kumar wins impressive silver medal in high jump”2024

This year India has recently won 7 medals, as you must be knowing that Avni Lakhera, Mona Agarwal, Manish Narwal and Preeti Pal have again won gold medals in Paralympics, and along with this Nishad Kumar has won silver medal in Paralympics and further we will know in which event Nishad Kumar and Preeti Pal have won medals.(India’s Paralympic stars)

Features of Paris Paralympics 2024

The Paralympic Games is a major international multi-sport event in which people with different types of disabilities participate. More than 400 people from 163 countries participate in the Paralympics. More than 24 sports are included in this Paralympics.

The importance of the Paralympics is that these games are held for people with disabilities from all countries, no kind of discrimination is done in this. These Paralympics are mostly held in summer or winter.

Who is Nishad Kumar?

Nishad Kumar is an Indian athlete who specializes in para high jump who won a silver medal at the Tokyo Paralympics 2020. And recently this year, he has won a silver medal in the T47 Men’s High Jump at the Paris Paralympics 2024.

India’s star athlete Nishad Kumar won a silver medal in the men’s high jump event at the Paris Paralympics 2024 on Sunday, 1 September. Nishad gave India his second and seventh medal in the high jump category in Paralympic history. Nishad finished second with a jump of 2.04 meters, while India’s other competitor Ram Pal equaled his personal best of 1.95 meters to finish seventh. Three-time Paralympic gold medalist Roderick Townsend-Roberts of the United States of America won the gold medal with a jump of 2.08 meters.

Indian athlete Nishad Kumar has won the 7th medal for India in this Paris Paralympics 2024. So far, India has won 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals and 4 bronze medals in this Paralympics. With this, India is making its place in para badminton in which two more medals have been confirmed for India through Nitesh Kumar (SL3) and Suhas Yathiraj (SL4).

Nishad Kumar’s father is a simple daily wage labour and his mother is a housewife, but despite this, they took Nishad Kumar to this position, for which we all should respect them.

Now we talk about Preeti Pal, who has recently won a bronze medal

Preeti Pal became the first Indian woman to win two Paralympic medals in track and field events by winning a bronze medal in the women’s 200 T35 category at the Paris Paralympics 2024 on Sunday. Preeti Pal finished third in the final with a personal correct time of 30.01 seconds. 23-year-old Indian athlete Preeti Pal won her bronze medal in the women’s 100m T35 class on Friday, which was India’s first Paralympic medal in a track event.

Xia Zhou and Guo Qianqian of the People’s Republic of China won gold and silver respectively in the 200m event. Xia Zhou completed the race in 28.15 seconds, while Guo Qianqian recorded a personal correct time of 29.09 seconds. With this, the Chinese pair has also defeated Preeti Pal in the 100-meter sprint and secured two positions in the Uttam category.

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