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Gold snatched from Ajit Panchal after making Asian record

News On Time Desk 14 July 2023

New Delhi: The story of the Tokyo Paralaympics was repeated in the Para World Championship being played in Paris. Ajit Kumar Panchal not only won the gold in the F-52 category of discus throw with an Asian record but also secured a ticket to the Paris Paralympics, but an hour later, just before the medal ceremony, he was disqualified and stripped of his gold. Behind the nitty-gritty at the World Championships is a matter of classification. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has declared Ajit ineligible to compete in the F-52 category. Ajit Panchal won the country's first gold medal in World Para Athletics by creating an Asian record by throwing 21.17m discus on July 11, but his happiness was short-lived.

Sources reveal that there was a protest against his category, stating that Ajit's injury was not serious enough to allow him to play in the F-52 category. After this, the classification panel of IPC called Ajit for review of the category. Sources reveal that Ajit's classification went on for almost four hours amid controversies, in which he was put in the F-54 category with less fatal injuries than the F-52 and stripped of his gold medal and removed from the entry list of the F-52. given. Vinod Kumar, who won bronze in the same category in the Tokyo Paralympics, was also disqualified. He was also later banned for two years. Satyapal Singh, the chief coach of the Indian team, says that Ajit's classification took place five years ago at the international level in Germany. He also won gold in the Sharjah Open in the same category. Now it is not right to disqualify him on such an important occasion. Protest has also been raised in this regard from the IPC.

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