Vinod Kumar will not get bronze medal in Paralympics, know the reason

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Tokyo: India’s discus thrower Vinod Kumar on Monday lost a bronze medal in the Paralympics men’s F52 event after being found ‘ineligible’ by the tournament’s panel on Vicar’s classification inspection. BSF jawan Vinod Kumar, 41, on Sunday set an Asian record with a best throw of 19.91m to finish third behind Poland’s Piotr Kosewicz (20.02m) and Croatia’s Velimir Sandor (19.98m). However, a competitor challenged this result.

“The panel found that the NPC (National Paralympic Committee) could not allot ‘Sport Class’ to athlete Vinod Kumar of India and the player was marked ‘Not Completion Classification’ (CNC),” the organizers said in a statement. According to it, “the athlete is therefore ineligible for the men’s F52 discus throw event and his result in the event is invalid.”

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F52 events involve athletes who have weak muscle mass and limited movement, hand deformities, or leg length differences that allow players to compete while sitting down. At the base are placed in sections. The classification system allows players who have the same disorder to compete.

The organizers did the classification of Vinod on 22 August. Vinod Kumar’s father fought in the 1971 Indo-Pak war. While training after joining the Border Security Force (BSF), he had fallen from a peak in Leh, injuring his leg. Due to this he was bedridden for almost a decade and during this time both his parents died.

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