Nishad, Simran claim gold medal

Double Paralympic silver medallist Nishad Kumar won his first World Championships gold in high jump T47 while Paris Games silver medallist Simran Sharma won the women's 100m T12 final with a new personal best at the World Para Athletics Championships here on Friday.

- Shantanu Srivastava

Nishad cleared 2.14m for a new personal best and Asian record and was followed by Turkey's Abdullah Ilgaz who took silver with a European record of 2.08m. American Roderick Townsend, a three-time Paralympics gold medallist, won bronze with a best of 2.03m.

T47 classification includes athletes with upper limb impairment, such as a below-elbow or wrist amputation or impairment. Hailing from Amb in Himachal Pradesh, Nishad lost his right hand to a grass-cutting machine in the farms.