Indian discus thrower Vinod Kumar misplaced his F52 class bronze medal on the Paralympics right here on Monday after being discovered ineligible within the incapacity classification evaluation by the competitors panel.
The 41-year-old BSF jawan, whose Army man father was injured throughout the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, clocked 19.91m to complete third behind Poland’s Piotr Kosewicz (20.02m) and Velimir Sandor (19.98m). Best throw. Croatia on Sunday.
However, the consequence was challenged by some contestants.
“…the panel was unable to allot NPC India athlete Vinod Kumar with a sports category and designated the athlete as Classification Not Complete (CNC),” the organizers stated in a press release.
“The athlete is therefore ineligible for the men’s F52 discus medal event and has nil results in that competition,” it added.
F52 is meant for athletes with impaired muscle energy, restricted vary of motion, limb deficiency or leg size distinction, together with athletes with cervical twine damage, spinal twine damage, amputation and useful impairment in a sitting place compete.
Para-athletes are labeled on the premise of the sort and extent of their incapacity. The classification system permits athletes to compete in opposition to folks of comparable stage of capacity.
Vinod’s classification was achieved on twenty second August.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
