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Tokyo Paralympics: India's Sports Minister Felicitates Silver Medallist Nishad Kumar 

Anurag Thakur, India's Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, on Tuesday congratulated Tokyo Paralympics silver medallist Nishad Kumar. Nishad showed up in Delhi on Tuesday. MoS Shri Nisith Pramanik likewise graced the occasion. 

Nishad, who hails from Himachal Pradesh, won the silver with a leap of 2.06m in the Men's High Jump T47 classification at the Tokyo Paralympics. 

Talking at the occasion, Thakur said: "India is euphoric at the splendid presentation of our Paralympians. India has won its most noteworthy ever award count ever! We conveyed the greatest unexpected this year. The determined help of our PM Narendra Modi Ji towards sports has for sure spurred our competitors to put forth a strong effort and I compliment Nishad on his prosperity." 

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"Nishad has shown that with steadiness achievement can be accomplished at the most elevated level. The public authority will keep on supporting India's Paralympians with offices and financing so they might keep on dominating globally. I have an extra motivation to be excited by Nishad's prosperity as he hails from my own territory of Himachal Pradesh," he added. 

Silver medalist Nishad Kumar said: "I could hardly imagine how I had won a silver at the Paralympics. I asked four authorities before I could really trust it. I might want to thank our Prime Minister Narendra Modi for guaranteeing that we have the full help of the govt in anything we need - diet, gear, instructing. I feel respected that I have been welcomed by the Sports Minister and he has met me and congratulated me on the absolute first day of my re-visitation of India. I have never had this experience and presently the sensation of the success is truly soaking in." 

At the Paralympic Games, Nishad approached the Asian record set by him recently with the 2.06m leap. 

He has been preparing at the public camp in SAI Bengaluru under the direction of mentor Satyanarayana. 

The Government of India appropriately upheld Nishad in front of the Games as far as working with unfamiliar openness trips and more than four worldwide contests to the tune of Rs 10.50 lakh from the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) and Rs 10.21 lakh from the Annual Calendar for Training and Competition (ACTC). 

Nishad has had a thrill ride of a schedule year. He tried positive for Covid-19 twice however he kept improving and set two Personal Bests in 2021. 안전놀이터

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He hopped 2.07m at the Para Athletics Selection Trials held in Delhi in June, and this assisted him with getting a spot in the Indian group for the Tokyo Paralympics. 

He won a gold decoration in the High Jump T47 classification at the Fazza Para Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai just before the pandemic in Dubai and rehashed the accomplishment at a similar contest by winning the slippery gold, likewise in 2021. 

Nishad, who comes from an unassuming group of ranchers, was just eight years of age when his right hand was harmed by a grass-cutting machine on his family's homestead. 

In any case, he didn't allow this episode to discourage his soul. After two years, he began rehearsing in the high leap on his school grounds. 

Nishad contended in the School Nationals, alongside physically fit competitors, in 2017 where he completed tenth with a leap of 1.75m. 

Subsequent to finishing his tutoring around the same time, Nishad moved to Panchkula to prepare at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium. It was no searching behind for him after that.