Nishad wins Silver in High Jump, vinod Bronze
Tokyo: Bhavina Patel created history by winning India’s first Silver medal in women’s singles class 4 table tennis today at Tokyo Paralympics.
Nishad Kumar too won Silver medal in Men’s High Jump T47 whole Vinod Kumar won Bronze medal in men’s Discus Throw at Paralympics Games today.
Winning medals was a memorable gift to the nation on the occasion of National Sports Day 2021.
Bhavina, the 34-year-old Indian para-Table Tennis player, ranked 12th in the world in the Class 4 category, had a big mountain to climb against Zhou Ying of China on Sunday morning.
She went down 0-3 to the World No 1, who now has six gold medals from four Paralympic Games. Bhavina had come up short against the Chinese in her opening group stage match as well. Nevertheless, the amount of upsets she caused right from the pre-quarters stage is noteworthy.
Bhavina, playing just her maiden Paralympic Games, won her round of 16 match against Brazil’s Joyce de Oliveira, a higher-ranked opponent, in straight games 3-0. Serbia’s Borislava Peric,
Bhavina’s opponent in the quarter final, was a gold as well as a silver medalist at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. The Indian dominated her en-route a 3-0 victory as well. In semis, Bhavina defeated 2012 Paralympics gold medalist and 2016 Paralympics silver medalist Zhang Miao in a 3-2 thriller. Bhavina lost the final 7-11, 5-11, 6-11 against Ying.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up Bhavina following her final match against Zhou Ying on Sunday morning and congratulated her on winning the silver medal.
