Indian para high jumpers hold world's top 3 ranks
Indian high jumpers Mariyappan Thangavelu, Varun Bhati and Sharad Kumar are entering the Rio Paralympics as the world's top-ranked competitors, making it the first such instance for India. Tamil Nadu's Mariyappan is ranked number one, followed by Varun, who won gold at the 2016 IPC World Athletics Championship. World number three Sharad is the 2014 Asian Para Games gold medalist.