{"id":43993,"date":"2024-09-06T13:14:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/praveen-kumar-wins-indias-record-breaking-sixth-gold-at-paris-paralympics-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T13:14:51","slug":"praveen-kumar-wins-indias-record-breaking-sixth-gold-at-paris-paralympics-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/praveen-kumar-wins-indias-record-breaking-sixth-gold-at-paris-paralympics-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Praveen Kumar wins India\u2019s record-breaking sixth gold at Paris Paralympics &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Paris<\/strong>: Praveen Kumar secured a gold medal in the men\u2019s high jump T64 event at the Paris Paralympics 2024 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Achieving a new personal best and setting an Asian Record, he cleared the bar at 2.08m, adding a second consecutive Paralympic medal to his achievements. Previously, he claimed a silver medal at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021 with a jump of 2.07m.<\/p>\n<p>He joins high jumpers Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thagavelu as the third Indian to win a medal in Paris, with Sharad taking silver and Mariyappan earning bronze in the men\u2019s high jump T63 event.<\/p>\n<p>With Praveen\u2019s triumph, India\u2019s medal count reaches 26 \u2014 six gold, nine silver, and 11 bronze \u2014 surpassing its previous gold medal record of five from Tokyo.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Paris: Praveen Kumar secured a gold medal in the men\u2019s high jump T64 event at the Paris Paralympics 2024 on Friday. Achieving a new personal best and setting an Asian Record, he cleared the bar at 2.08m, adding a second consecutive Paralympic medal to his achievements. Previously, he claimed a silver medal at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/download-39.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43995,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43993\/revisions\/43995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}