{"id":127143,"date":"2024-09-03T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/sharad-kumar-mariyappan-thangavelu-bag-silver-bronze-to-give-india-double-podium-finish-at-paralympics\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T21:31:11","slug":"sharad-kumar-mariyappan-thangavelu-bag-silver-bronze-to-give-india-double-podium-finish-at-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/sharad-kumar-mariyappan-thangavelu-bag-silver-bronze-to-give-india-double-podium-finish-at-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu bag Silver, Bronze to give India double-podium finish at Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/09\/root-69-1725393370.jpg?resize=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu bag Silver, Bronze to give India double-podium finish at Paralympics\" title=\"Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu bag Silver, Bronze to give India double-podium finish at Paralympics\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : REUTERS<\/span> Sharad Kumar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\">Indian para-athletes\u00a0Sharad Kumar and\u00a0Mariyappan Thangavelu starred in the men&#8217;s high jump\u00a0&#8211; T63 of the ongoing Paralympic Games 2024. Sharad won a silver medal, while\u00a0Mariyappan bagged home a bronze in the high jump event.  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>Sharad Kumar bagged a bronze in the previous Paralympic Games too and improved the colour of the medal in Paris. While the two Indians claimed a double podium finish, 19-year-old American athlete Ezra Frech took home with a new Paralympic record of 1.94m jump.<\/p>\n<p>Sharad was in the fight for the\u00a0gold but could not go past his best mark of 1.88m. He went for the 1.91m and 1.94m but could not clear either of the mark as he settled for a silver.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Mariyappan creates history<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Mariyappan has become the first Indian to win medals in three consecutive editions. He had won a gold in 2016 and a silver in the 2020 edition of the Games. This bronze completes his third medal set too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three Indians\u00a0Mariyappan Thangavelu, Shailesh Kumar and Sharad Kumar were in the fray for medals.\u00a0Thangavelu is already a gold medallist at the Paralympics 2016, winning the top prize in the\u00a0Men&#8217;s High Jump T42 event. He took a silver in the last Paralympics in the\u00a0High Jump &#8211; T63 category.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong>India register best-ever medal haul at Paralympics<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>India began their day with 15 medals in the bag after clinching eight on a single day on Monday. On Tuesday, the contingent added five more medals. While\u00a0Sharad and Mariyappan bagged silver and bronze medals, respectively in the\u00a0men&#8217;s high jump &#8211; T63,\u00a0Ajeet Singh and Sundar Singh Gurjar bagged silver and a bronze in the\u00a0men&#8217;s javelin throw F46 event.\u00a0A little earlier Deepthi Jeevanji clinched a bronze in the women&#8217;s 400m &#8211; T20, making it five medals for India on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/other\/sharad-kumar-mariyappan-thangavelu-bag-silver-bronze-to-give-india-double-podium-finish-in-paralympics-2024-09-04-950253\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : REUTERS Sharad Kumar. 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