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18-year-old Praveen Kumar, competing in his debut Games, clinched the silver medal in the men’s high jump T64 event, setting a new Asian record with a 2.07m jump to finish behind Great Britain’s Jonathan Broom-Edwards, who notched up his season’s best effort of 2.10m for the gold.[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_9936341” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]
19-year-old trailblazer Avani Lekhara claimed the 50m Rifle 3 Position SH1 bronze to add to an unprecedented gold she had secured earlier in the Games.[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_9936411” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]
Harvinder Singh made history after he became the first Indian archer to win a medal at the Paralympics. [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_9936421” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]
Jessica Long won the women’s S8 100m butterfly to clinch her 29th Paralympic medal – the same number as her age, and more than Michael Phelps’ 28 Olympic medals. AP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_9936431” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]
Niels Vink of the Netherlands won bronze in wheelchair tennis quad singles, beating Japan’s Koji Sugeno 6-1, 6-4. AP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_9934621” align=“alignnone” width=“640”]
Australia’s Curtis McGrath reacts after a heat of the canoe sprint men’s va’a single (VL3 200m) during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo on September 2, 2021. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP)[/caption]
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