Shialesh Kumar (born 8 August 2000) is a para jumper from Bihar. He represented India in the men's high jump at the 2022 Asian Para Games at Hangzhou, China. He won a gold medal in the men's T63 high jump event clearing 1.82 meters on 23 October 2023. [1] [2] [3] [4] He is currently being supported by OGQ.
Kumar hails from Islamnagar in Aliganj block, Jamui district, Bihar. [5] In T63 classification, athletes with a single leg above the knee amputation compete with a prosthesis. He was born to Pratima Devi and Shivnandan Yadav and has two brothers. He did his graduation in Mathematics.
He also represented India at the World Para Athletics Championships at Paris in July 2023 and won a silver medal. [6] He qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics. He won the National Championship at Bhubaneswar in March 2022. [7]
He also broke the nine-year-old Asian Para Games record of 1.80m set by Paralympics medalist Sharad Kumar in 2014. [8] Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Kumar for winning the gold medal. [9]
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Mariyappan Thangavelu is an Indian Paralympic high jumper. He represented India in the 2016 Summer Paralympics games held in Rio de Janeiro in the men's high jump T-42 category and the 2020 Summer Paralympic games held in Tokyo in the men's high jump T-63 category, winning the gold medal and silver medal respectively in the finals. He is India's first Paralympian gold medalist since 2004.
Sharad Kumar is an Indian para high jumper and a former world no. 1. Born in Muzaffarpur, he made his International debut at the 2010 Asian Para Games. At the 2014 Asian Para Games, he won the gold medal in the high jump (T42), breaking a 12-year Asian Games record, and reclaimed the world no. 1 position. Kumar participated in the 2016 Summer Paralympics finishing sixth. He won Silver in 2017 World ParaAthletics Championships. He is supported by GoSports Foundation through the Para Champions Programme.
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