The fifth day of Paris Paralympics is proving to be medal winning for India. The country won 6 medals today, out of which 4 were in badminton. In the mixed team event of para archery, the pair of Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar won the bronze medal. Before them, Nitesh Kumar won gold in the SL3 category and Suhas Yathiraj won the silver medal in the SL4 category in badminton. In the SU5 category of women’s badminton, India’s Thulasimathi Murugesan won silver and Manisha Ramdas won bronze medal. Earlier today, Yogesh Kathunia won the silver medal in discus throw. India has so far won 13 medals
In the Paralympics, India has so far won 2 gold, 5 silver and 6 bronze. Today India can also win medals in badminton, athletics and archery. In the para badminton mixed SH-6 event, the pair of India’s Nitya Sri Sivan and Shivarajan Solaimalai lost the bronze medal match. Now in singles, Nitya Shri Sivan will play the bronze medal match against Rina Merlina of Indonesia. Archery mixed team won bronze medal
The mixed doubles pair of Rakesh Kumar and Sheetal Devi won the bronze medal in para archery. Both defeated the Italian pair by a close margin of 156-155. Rakesh and Sheetal have got their first medal in this Paralympics. Both had missed out on winning medals in their respective individual events. Suhas Yathiraj won silver medal
In the SL4 category, India’s Suhas Yathiraj lost the final, due to which he had to be content with the silver medal. He was defeated by Lucas Mazur of France 21-9, 21-13. Yathiraj reached the final by defeating India’s Sukant Kadam in the semi-finals. Sukant lost 21-17, 21-18 against Freddy Setiawan of Indonesia in the bronze medal match. SL4 category includes those athletes who have difficulty walking with one or both legs. Rakesh and Sheetal lost the archery semi-final. India has faced defeat in the semi-final of archery. The world number-1 mixed doubles pair of Rakesh Kumar and Sheetal Devi was defeated by the Iranian pair. After 4 ends, the score was tied at 152-152. In the tie-breaker, both teams scored 20-20 points, but the Iranian archer won as his shot was closer to 10. Murugesan lost the match in straight games. In the women’s SU5 category, India’s Thulasimati Murugesan faced China’s QX Yang in the final. Yang won the first game 21-17. In the second game too, Yang put pressure and took a lead of 11-5, he won the game 21-10 and won the gold medal. Murugesan had to be content with silver. On the other hand, Manisha Ramdas of India won the bronze medal in the SU5 category. She won the bronze medal by defeating Denmark’s Katherine Rosengren in straight games by a margin of 21-12, 21-8. The SU5 category includes those athletes who have hand problems. That is, those players who have problems in their playing hand or the other hand. India in the semi-finals of Para Archery
India made it to the semi-finals in the mixed team event of Para Archery. The pair of Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar defeated Indonesia in the quarter-finals. India won the match against Indonesia by a margin of 154-143 and entered the semi-finals. Modi said, keep playing like this
PM Modi said to Avani on the phone, “Many congratulations Avani. How are you feeling?” Avni said, “I am feeling very good sir. I have come to Paralympics for the second time, I was a little nervous, but you had said not to carry the burden of expectations, so I played accordingly.” Modi further said, “Avni, you are doing very well continuously. Many congratulations from my side, you work hard and do better.” Nitesh Kumar won the second gold
Nitesh Kumar won the gold medal for India in the individual event of SL3 category of badminton. He won the match that lasted for 3 games against Daniel Bethell of Great Britain. Nitesh won the first game 21-14, Bethell won the second game 18-21. In the third game, the matter reached a tie of 21-21, here Nitesh took 2 consecutive points and won the gold. Before Nitesh, Avni Lekhara had won gold in shooting. Nitesh plays in the SL3 category. This category includes those athletes who have difficulty in walking. That is, those whose one or both legs are not normal. Yogesh won the medal with a throw of 42.22 meters
On the 5th day, Yogesh scored 42.22 meters in his first throw in the final of Men’s Discus Throw F-56. This was his season best throw and with this he won the silver medal. In the F-56 category, the player participates in the field event while sitting due to disability. Javelin thrower Sumit will play the final
Sumit Antil, who is representing the country for the second time in the Paralympics, will play the final of Javelin F-64 today. Apart from Sumit, Sanjay Sandeep and Sandeep will also participate from India in this game. Sumit won the gold medal in the Tokyo Paralympics. He created a new world record by throwing the javelin 73.29 meters in the Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, China. India won 2 medals late night on the fourth day of the Paris Paralympics. Nishad Kumar won a silver medal for India in the high jump event at 1 am. He secured second place with a season best jump of 2.04 meters. Before him, Preeti Pal had won a bronze medal in the women’s 200 meter race. 2 medals came on the fourth day 1. Nishad Kumar won silver with season best score
India got a silver medal in the high jump event of the men’s T-47 category. Nishad Kumar secured second place by jumping 2.04 meters. World and Paralympic record holder Roderick Townsend of America won the gold. He secured first place with a jump of 2.12 meters. Georgia’s Georgi Margiev got the bronze medal in the high jump event. His best jump was 2.00 meters. Nishad won silver in the T-47 category. It includes those athletes whose limbs below the elbow do not work. Similar disabilities or those athletes whose both legs do not work equally. In the same event, India’s Ram Pal finished 7th, he made a best jump of 1.95 meters. 2. Preeti won the medal with personal best time
Preeti won the bronze medal in the 200 meter women’s T-35 category race. She secured the third position with a personal best time of 30.01 meters. China’s Jia Zhou got the gold and Qian Guo got the silver medal. Preeti also won the bronze medal in the 100 meter race. She is the first player to win 2 Paralympic medals for India in track events. Preeti plays in the T-35 category, which includes players who have diseases like hypertonia, ataxia and athetosis. Shooter Rubina Francis won bronze on the third day
Para shooter Rubina Francis won the bronze medal in the SH1 category of Women’s 10 meter air pistol on the third day, Saturday, 31 August. He scored 211.1 in the final. This was India’s 5th medal in these games. On Friday 30th August, India won 4 medals. Among these, Avani Lekhara won gold and Mona Agarwal won bronze medal in women’s shooting. While Manish Narwal won silver in 10 meter air pistol shooting in men’s shooting. Preeti Pal won bronze medal in women’s 100 meter T-35 category race.
