High five for India!

Indians won silver and bronze in both menrsquos high jump T63 and javelin throw F46 after Deepthi Jeevanjirsquos bronze in the womenrsquos 400m T20 category as the countryrsquos track and field athletes clinched five medals at the Paralympic Games here on Tuesday Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thangavelu won silver and bronze respectively in the menrsquos high jump T63 while Ajeet Singh and Sundar Singh Gurjar took the second and third sports in the javelin throw F46 finalSharad clears 188mThe 32yearold Kumar cleared 188m while the 29yearold Thangavelursquos best effort was 185m World record holder Frech Ezra of the USA won the gold T63 classification is for athletes with single through knee or above knee limb deficiency Both Kumar and Thangavelu were T42 athletes who have single abovetheknee amputations or a disability that is comparable T63 classification is for athletes with single through knee or above knee limb deficiency competing with a prosthesisDeepthi Jeevanji with her 400m bronze medal in Paris on TuesdayT63 and T42 athletes can be combined in a single event and that was what happened on Tuesday Gold winner Ezra is a T63 athlete and he competed with a prosthesis In fact Kumarrsquos 188m effort is a Paralympic record in T42 bettering the earlier 186m set by Thangavelu In the Tokyo Paralympics three years ago Kumar had won bronze while reigning world champion Thangavelu had clinched a silver It was a sort or reversal here on TuesdayAlso ReadNitesh Bhagatrsquos absence added extra responsibility to win goldAjeet throws past 65mAjeet upstaged world record holder Gurjar 6496m with a fifthround throw of 6562m Guillermo Gonzalez Varona of Cuba won gold with 6616m It was Gurjarrsquos second consecutive bronze in the Paralympics as he had bagged the medal of same colour in Tokyo also three years agoF46 classification is for athletes with arm deficiency impaired muscle power or impaired passive range of movement in arms with athletes competing in a standing position Earlier in the day Indiarsquos world champion Deepthi came up short of her best timing as she won a bronze medal in the womenrsquos 400m T20 category final raceIndiarsquos javelin throw silver medallist Ajeet Singh left and bronze medallist Sundar Singh Gurjar in Paris on Tuesday PicsGetty ImagesDeepthi who turns 21 later this month clocked 5582 seconds to finish behind Yuliia Shuliar 5516 seconds of Ukraine and world record holder Aysel Onder 5523 of Turkey T20 category is meant for athletes with intellectual impairment Deepthi had come into Paris Paralympics as a strong contender for the gold after a topplace finish at the World ParaAthletics Championships in May in Japan where she had clocked thethen world record of 5507 secondsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever