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Shailesh Kumar won gold at the World Para Athletics Championships

Shailesh set a new meet record in Men’s High Jump T63 Final

He is from Islamnagar, Bihar and overcame a physical disability

Shailesh Kumar’s story doesn’t begin under floodlights or on manicured tracks. It begins in a farm field in Jamui, Bihar - tying ropes, jumping over them, falling into the hard earth because there was no mattress. That boy from Islamnagar, who once dreamt in the dust, stood at the centre of New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on 27 September and rewrote the competition record at the World Para Athletics Championships.

For India, it was a moment of pride. For Shailesh, it was redemption. A year after heartbreak in Paris, where he missed out by the slimmest of margins, he ca

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