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Unfortunately, Rampal's day has come to an end here and the Indian has finished 6th. However, he has crossed his Personal Best and that is an amazing achievement as far as Paralympics are concerned.
Rampal occupies 5th place at present and chances of a medal look bleak.
Three attempts of 1.96 have been unsuccessful for Rampal.
He is unsuccessful with the first attempt.
Rampal will attempt 1.96 next.
Rampal has been excellent tonight.
However, Rampal is still in fifth position.
HE DOES IT AGAIN!!!! Rampal gets 1.93 meter successful in third attempt. He is not giving up.
The second one is unsuccessful as well.
Rampal's first attempt at 1.93 is unsuccessful.
However, the joint top places are occupied by Angkarn Chanaboon, Aaron Chatman and Hongjie Chen.
This is a Personal Best for Rampal and that is remarkable.
He does it the next time. Fantastic from Rampal here.
He has been unable to clear the 1.90 meter height in the first attempt.
Rampal has slipped into third place.
More athletes go joint top with Rampal by successfully clearing 1.85m mark.
He is joint top at the moment with Chen Hongjie and Angkarn Chanaboon.
Brilliant from Rampal as delivers a personal best of 1.85 and remains joint top.
Five athletes joint top at present.
World Record holder Roberts-Townsend is yet to jump tonight.
Others joining 1.80 as well and four athletes go joint top.
Rampal successful clears the 1.80m to go joint top with Hongjie Chen from China.
Six High Jumpers now tied at first place after clearing 1.75 meter mark. However, this is just the start, there is a long way to go.
This is a bright start from Rampal as he is on top alongside Florin Cojoc and Wu Zhou.
He goes joint top.
RAMPAL successfully clears 1.75 meters.
Baleibau manages to cross 1.70m but in his second attempt.
Reinhold Boetzel successfully clears 1.70 as well. Joint top now.
Florin starts and is successful in his attempts of crossing 1.70 m.
Line-up for today:
1. Florin Cojoc (Romania)
2. Andris Lo Gonzalez (Venezuela)
3. Hongjie Chen (China)
4. Epeli Baleibau (Fiji)
5. Rampal (India)
6. Roderick Roberts-Townsend (USA)
7. Angkarn Chanaboon (Thailand)
8. Wu Zhou (China)
9. Aaron Chatman (Australia)
10. Reinhold Boetzel (Germany)
11. Yalong Zhao (China)
We are around five minutes away from the start of the event here.
There are 11 athletes competing tonight and Rampal is fifth in the order to jump.
India have performed exceptionally well at the 2016 Paralympics and have already won four medals in the form of Mariyappan Thangavelu, Varun Singh Bhati, Deepa Malik and Devendra Jhajharia. Other athletes who have performed well include Suyash Jadhav and Amit Kumar Saroha came close to winning medals.
Hello and welcome to Sportskeeda's live coverage of the 2016 Rio Paralympics and today we have for you the Men's High Jump event. Indian high jumper Rampal Chahal will be in action today and India will be looking to get its fifth medal at the Paralympics.
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