Para-athlete Vinod Kumar banned for intentional misrepresentation at Tokyo

Board of Appeal of Classification (BAC) has banned Para-athlete, Discus throw player, Vinod Kumar  for two years (Until 2023) for ‘intentional misrepresentation’. He won the bronze medal in the discus throw event (F52 category) at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.

At the Tokyo games, he gave a best throw of 19.91m to finish third behind Piotr Kosewicz (20.02m) of Poland and Velimir Sandor (19.98m) of Croatia.