The T63/T42 high jump final at the Paris Paralympic Games was the scene of some impressive images, such as the hopping run of Dominican Wagner Astacio.
An exceptional competition. The T63/T42 high jump final at the Paris Paralympic Games saw major performances from para athletes with moderately limited leg movement, or no leg above the knee, as well as para athletes with moderately impaired leg mobility or no limbs.
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Mind-blowing heights
A below-the-knee amputee, Dominican Wagner Astacio thus performed his run-up on one leg to clear a bar at 1.81m on his second attempt at the ventral roll. He finally finished 5th in the final after clearing a bar at 1.85m, his best performance of the season.
With an atrophied leg, Cameroonian Yves-Noé Batifi Loumou also impressed by breaking the African record (1.77m) in a competition won by American Ezra Frech (1.94m) ahead of Indians Sharad Kumar (1.88m) and Mariyappan Thangavelu (1.85m).
