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Watch Paralympian Mariyappan Win India’s First-Ever High Jump Gold

India’s first-ever gold in high jump at the Paralympics.

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History was made on Friday night in Rio when Mariyappan Thangavelu clinched India’s first-ever gold in high jump at the Paralympics.

With a jump of 1.89 metres, Thangavelu also became only the third-ever indian to bag a gold at the Paralympics. America’s Sam Grewe bagged the silver and Indian Varun Singh Bhati won the bronze.

T-42 is a disability sport classification for differently-abled athletes with single ‘above the knee’ amputations or a disability that is comparable.

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