Nishad Kumar
♦ India’s Nishad Kumar won a silver medal in the men’s high jump T47 class at the Paris 2024 Paralympics on 1 September 2024. He soared to a height of 2.04m in the final. USA’s Roderick Townsend won the gold medal with a score of 2.12m and Georgii Margiev settled for bronze with a jump of 2.00m. ♦ This was Nishad Kumar’s second Paralympic medal. He won the silver medal at Tokyo 2020 with a clearance of 2.06m behind Townsend back then as well.