Tokyo: Day 5 of Paralympics in Tokyo saw India win three medals. Bhavinaben Patel lost her final match and settled for silver in table tennis. Nishad Kumar clinched a silver medal in the men’s high jump T47 event.
Indian table tennis player Bhavinaben Patel signed off with a historic silver medal in her maiden Paralympic Games after going down 0-3 to world number one Chinese paddler Ying Zhou in the women’s singles class 4 final here on Sunday.
The 34-year-old Patel’s impressive run at the Games ended with a 7-11 5-11 6-11 loss to Zhou, a two-time gold medallist, in the women’s singles summit clash which lasted 19 minutes.
Patel, who was diagnosed with polio when she was 12 months old, had defeated world no 3 Miao Zhang of China 7-11 11-7 11-4 9-11 11-8 in the semifinal showdown on Saturday.
India’s Nishad Kumar clinched a silver medal in the men”s high jump T47 event in the Tokyo Paralympics with an Asian record effort here on Sunday.
Kumar cleared 2.06m to win the silver and set an Asian record. American Dallas Wise was also awarded a silver as he and Kumar cleared the same height of 2.06m.
Another American, Roderick Townsend won the gold with a world record jump of 2.15m.
India’s Vinod Kumar clinched the bronze medal in men’s discus throw (F52) at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday. Vinod threw a best effort of 19.91m in the final to secure the bronze medal. He also set a new Asian record in the process. The result of the event, however, has been challenged by some other competitors, who have objected to Vinod’s classification in the F52 category. Results of this event are currently under review due to classification observation in competition.