{"id":51323,"date":"2021-09-03T07:06:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T07:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=51323"},"modified":"2021-09-03T07:06:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T07:06:37","slug":"tokyo-paralympics-praveen-kumar-wins-silver-in-mens-high-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/tokyo-paralympics-praveen-kumar-wins-silver-in-mens-high-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Paralympics: Praveen Kumar wins silver in men\u2019s high jump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Praveen Kumar<\/strong> bagged the silver medal in the men&#8217;s high jump T64 category with a jump of 2.07m on Friday at the Tokyo Paralympics. World No. 3 Kumar&#8217;s effort took India&#8217;s medal tally to 11 in the ongoing Paralympics. Doing so, the 18-year-old set the new Asian record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Praveen Kumar<\/strong>\u00a0became\u00a0<strong>India\u2019s fourth medallist<\/strong>\u00a0in men\u2019s high jump and\u00a0<strong>11th medallist overall<\/strong>\u00a0at the Tokyo Paralympics 2020 as he won silver with an Asian record jump of\u00a0<strong>2.07m.<\/strong>\u00a0Praveen cleared the Asian record with a 2.07m jump, finishing behind Great Britain\u2019s Jonathan Broom-Edwards, who managed the best jump of 2.10m on a rain-soaked track at the Olympic Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Praveen is India\u2019s fourth medallist in men\u2019s high jump at Tokyo Games after\u00a0<strong>Nishad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu, and Sharad Kumar.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praveen Kumar bagged the silver medal in the men&#8217;s high jump T64 category with a jump of 2.07m on Friday at the Tokyo Paralympics. World No. 3 Kumar&#8217;s effort took India&#8217;s medal tally to 11 in the ongoing Paralympics. Doing so, the 18-year-old set the new Asian record. Praveen Kumar\u00a0became\u00a0India\u2019s fourth medallist\u00a0in men\u2019s high jump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":51324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1417],"tags":[1436,1435],"class_list":["post-51323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2021","tag-praveen-kumar","tag-tokyo-paralympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51325,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51323\/revisions\/51325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}