India has won 4 medals on Friday in Paris Paralympics. Avni Lekhara won gold and Mona Agarwal won bronze medal in women’s shooting. Manish Narwal won silver in men’s 10m air pistol shooting. Preeti Pal won bronze medal in women’s 100m T-35 category race. Manish Narwal won silver medal
Friday’s fourth medal for India came in men’s shooting, Manish Narwal won silver medal in men’s 10m air pistol SH1 category. He finished second with a final score of 234.9. Korea’s Jeongdu Jo won the gold medal with 237.4 points. World and Paralympic record holder Chao Yang of China finished third with 214.3 points. He won gold by scoring 237.9 points in Tokyo, he also holds the world record of 241.8 points. Avni won the first medal
Avni Lekhara won the first medal for India in the Paralympic Games. She won the gold medal with a Paralympic record in the SH1 category of women’s 10 meter air rifle shooting. She scored 249.7. Korea’s Yunri Lee got silver, her score was 246.8. Mona Agarwal of India won the bronze medal with a score of 228.7. Mona Agarwal had once reached the top
Avni won gold in the SH1 category. The SH1 category in shooting includes those shooters whose hands, lower body or legs are affected. Or those who do not have any limbs. In the qualification round, Avni Lekhara was second and Mona Agarwal was at fifth place. There were 2 rounds of shooting left in the final, then Mona was at the top with a score of 208.1. Avni was second and the Korean shooter was at third place. In the second last round, the Korean shooter secured the first position and Avni reached second. While Mona finished third and was out of the race for the gold medal. In the last round, Avni made a Paralympic record and won gold with a score of 249.7. The previous Paralympic record of 249.6 was also in Avni’s name, which she made in Tokyo. The Korean shooter finished second with 246.8 points. Preeti won the third medal of the day
India got the bronze medal in the women’s 100 meter T-35 category race. Preeti Pal finished the race in 14.21 seconds and secured third place. This was her career best timing. Gold and silver medals went to China. Jia Zhou secured first place with 13.58 seconds and Qian Guo secured second place with 13.74 seconds. In the T-35 category, T means track, while the 35 category includes those athletes who have diseases like hypertonia, ataxia or athetosis. Sakshi finished sixth in discus throw
In the final of the F55 category of women’s discus throw, both the Indian athletes missed the medal. Sakshi Kasana finished sixth and Jyoti Karam finished seventh. Sakshi’s best score was 21.49 and Jyoti’s was 20.22. China’s Feixia Dong won the gold medal with a best score of 26.39. Mexico’s Maria Rosa got silver and Latvia’s Diana Krumina got bronze medal. Mansi lost badminton match
In para badminton women’s singles, India’s Mansi Joshi had to face defeat in the second match of the group stage. She was defeated by Ukraine’s Oxana Kozina 10-21, 21-15, 23-21. Earlier, she had lost against Indonesia’s number-1 seed Konita Syakuroh in the first match. These events today
Arshad Sheikh will participate in the Men’s C-2 3000 meter Individual Pursuit qualifying event. Manu will play in the Men’s Shot Put F-37 final. Para archer Sheetal in pre-quarterfinals
Indian archer Sheetal Devi has secured second place in the ranking round of the Women’s Compound Individual event of the Paris Paralympics. 17-year-old Sheetal, who is participating in the Paralympics for the first time, scored 703 out of 720 points. She was just one point behind making a world record. Turkey’s Curie Girdi created a new world record with 704 points and ranked first in the ranking round. There are very few archers in the world who do archery without arms. In this Paralympics, Sheetal is one of the 3 archers who will do archery with the help of legs. Sheetal had won the silver medal in the World Championship. This time she is participating in the mixed and singles events. Now she will face an archer from Chile or Korea
Being second in the ranking round, Sheetal Devi got a direct place in the last-16. Sheetal will play the winner of the match between Chile’s Mariana Zuniga and Korea’s Choi Na Mi in the pre-quarterfinals. Zuniga won the silver medal in the Tokyo Paralympics. She was ranked 15th in the ranking round. Sheetal is born without both arms, due to which she arches with her feet. Another Indian archer Sarita Devi scored 682 and was ranked ninth. She will face Malaysia’s Abdul Jalil in the first round. Highlights of the first day
India’s men’s para badminton stars Sukant Kadam and Suhas Yathiraj registered brilliant victories in their opening men’s singles SL-3 matches. Earlier, India’s para badminton women’s singles Manasi Joshi lost to Indonesian number-1 seed Konita Syakuroh in the SL-3 category in the third game. India’s Paralympics 2024 began with an India vs India match in para badminton when the mixed doubles pair of Nitesh Kumar and Thulasimathi Murugesan defeated compatriots Suhas Yathiraj and Palak Kohli. However, the pair Shivarajan Solaimalai and Nithya Sri Sivan suffered defeat thereafter. In para track cycling, India’s Jyoti Gaderia failed to qualify for the medal round, while Tarun registered an easy win in Group D in para badminton. Aruna Tanwar suffered defeat in para taekwondo.
