Sharad Kumar, player of Madhya Pradesh sports academy is selected as the member of Indian athletics team and will be seen participating in Paralympics Tokyo. He left for the Tokyo Paralympics from Bhopal on Thursday.
Before leaving, Sharad Kumar expressed his gratitude to the Sports Department, praising the cooperation and arrangements made for them during the training done in the capital Bhopal.
Director Sports and Youth Welfare Pawan Jain along with other officials, sports coaches and sportspersons extended their best wishes to Sharad Kumar for winning a medal in Paralympics and making the country proud.
On this occasion, Sports Director Pawan Jain wished Sharad Kumar and his Ukrainian coach Nikitin by presenting them with a bouquet. Sports Director Jain said that the way our players have hoisted the tricolor of India by performing in Tokyo Olympics, in the same way our players will hoist India's flag in Paralympics.
Sports Director Pawan Jain while congratulating Sharad Kumar said that he should come after winning gold medal in Paralympics and bring laurels to the country.
Sharad Kumar was very impressed by the development of sports in Madhya Pradesh and the high level sports facilities being provided to the players.
He said thay the Sports Minister of the state made the world class sports facility for the players of the state.
Para player Sharad Kumar had been learning the nuances of the long jump in training with Ukrainian coach Nikitin at the TT Nagar Stadium for the past one month. Sharad Kumar hails from Bihar. He told that when he was two years old, he fell victim to polio on his left leg.