India have won 31 medals India won 19 medals at the Tokyo Paralympics — five gold, eight silver, six bronze.
Indian athletes make history
Indian athletes have gave their best-ever performance in the history till now , of Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Shooter Avani Lekhara
Avani Lekhara -Gold -Women’s 10m air rifle shooting standing SH1
Avani Lekhara -Bronze – Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions shooting SH1
The 19-year-old won with an impressive score of 149.6 in the final event of women’s 10m air rifle standing at Tokyo on . With this, Lekhara has set a new Paralympic record and has also equalled the world record.
Shooter Avani Lekhara created sporting history after becoming the first Indian woman to win a Paralympics gold medal.
Sumit Antil
Sumit Antil became the second Indian after Devendra Jhajharia to win a Paralympics gold in javelin throw.Tokyo was Antil’s first Paralympic.
The 22-year-old won the men’s javelin F64 final with an impressive throw of 68.55m. And in the span of the match, he managed to beat his own previous world record three times.
“It was not my best, I am very happy to break the world record,”
Sumit Antil
Yogesh Kathuniya
In 2020, he set a world record of 45.18m to win gold at the Para-athletics Grand Prix in Berlin, which was his first international event.
The 24 year-old finished behind Brazil’s Claudiney Batista dos Santos, who set a new Paralympic record with a throw of 45.59m.
Bhavina Patel
Bhavina Patel won a historic silver medal in Tokyo,She is the first table tennis player ever to win a medal at the Paralympics for India.
Bhavani Patel is the first table tennis player to win a medal at the Paralympics for India
Bhavina Patel, who was diagnosed with polio when she was 12 months old, lost to world No.1 Chinese paddler Ying Zhou in the women’s singles class 4 final.
Devendra Jhajharia
Devendra Jhajharia won silver in the men’s F46 javelin throw event with a personal best effort of 64.35m.
Jhajharia had won gold medals at Athens 2004 and Rio 2016, and has now become the second Indian ever to win 3 medals at the Paralympics after athlete Joginder Singh Bedi.
Sundar Singh Gurjar
Two-time world champion, Sundar Singh Gurjar, who participated in the event, won bronze with a throw of 64.01m.
Sundar Singh Gurjar (born 1 January 1996 in Karauli, Rajasthan) is an Indian Paralympic javelin thrower, shot putter and discus thrower competing in F46 events.
Nishad Kumar
Nishad Kumar claimed a silver in the men’s high jump
The 21-year-old cleared 2.06m on his second attempt to equal his own Asian record. He shares silver with American athlete Dallas Wise.
Son of a farmer in a small Himalayan town in Himachal Pradesh state, In the farm Kumar lost his right hand due to accident in grass cutting machine at the age of eight.
He had contracted Covid-19 earlier this year while training for
Krishna Nagar
Krishna Nagar – gold medal – men’s singles badminton SH6
India’s Krishna Nagar covered up India’s campaign at the Tokyo Paralympics with a gold medal in men’s singles SH6 Badminton.
Having not dropped a single game en path to the final. The Indian badminton player got himself up against Hong Kong’s Chu Man Kai in the gold medal match.
Suhas Yathiraj
Suhas Yathiraj – silver medal – men’s singles badminton SL4
Suhas Yathiraj’s brilliant campaign at the Tokyo Paralympics men’s singles badminton SL4 event ended in the final after a loss to the top seed and reigning world champion Lucas Mazur of France. The run, however, was enough to win him the silver medal.
Manoj Sarkar
Manoj Sarkar – bronze medal – men’s singles badminton SL3
India also secured the bronze medal in men’s singles badminton SL3 category courtesy Manoj Sarkar – incidentally also the only player to take a game off champion Pramod Bhagat at Tokyo.
Parmod Bhagat
Parmod Bhagat – gold medal – men’s singles badminton SL3
With badminton making its Paralympics debut at Tokyo, India’s Pramod Bhagat became the first-ever champion in the men’s singles SL3 category.
Singhraj Adhana
Singhraj Adhana – silver medal – men’s 50m pistol SH1
Singhraj Adhana – Bronze medal – Men’s 10m air pistol shooting SH1
Right on Manish Narwal’s heels was compatriot Singhraj Adhana, who won the silver medal with a score of 216.7 in the final.
| Also Won Bronze Men’s 10m air pistol shooting SH1 |
Manish Narwal
Manish Narwal – gold medal – men’s 50m pistol SH1
Indian shooter Manish Narwal won the gold medal in men’s 50m pistol SH1 at the Tokyo Paralympics with a solid display at the Asaka Shooting Range.
Harvinder Singh
Harvinder Singh – bronze medal – men’s individual recurve – open archery
Harvinder Singh won the men’s individual recurve – open archery bronze medal at Tokyo 2020 to enter the history books.
Praveen Kumar
Praveen Kumar – silver medal – men’s high jump T64
Praveen Kumar won India’s eighth athletics medal – and fourth high jump medal – at the Tokyo Paralympics with silver in the men’s high jump T64 class.
Sharad Kumar
Sharad Kumar – bronze medal – men’s high jump T42
Joining compatriot Thangavelu on the podium was Sharad Kumar, who won bronze in the men’s high jump T42.
Mariyappan Thangavelu
Mariyappan Thangavelu – silver medal – men’s high jump T42
Mariyappan Thangavelu won his second Paralympic medal, a silver in the men’s high jump T42 class.
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