Bhavinaben Patel and Nishad Kumar had earlier won a silver each in women’s singles table tennis class 4 and men’s T47 high jump events respectively.
Discus thrower Vinod Kumar clinched a bronze medal in the men’s F52 event with an Asian record to give India its third medal in Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday.
The 41-year-old BSF man, whose father fought in the 1971 Indo-Pak war, produced a best throw of 19.91m to finish third behind Piotr(20.02m) of Poland and Velimir of Croatia.He injured his legs while training after joining the BSF, falling off a cliff in Leh that left him bed-ridden for close to decade during which he lost both of his parents.
