Paralympics 2024: India to send their biggest ever contingent to Paris

The Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) released a list of 84 para-athletes who will represent the country at the forthcoming Paris Paralympics, scheduled to start on 28th August.

This is India's biggest-ever contingent in the Paralympics history where India will be participating in 12 different sports disciplines. The Para-athletics contingent is the biggest among all sports, having 38 athletes.

At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, India sent a contingent of 54 Indian athletes who managed to pull off India's best-ever outing at the games by winning 19 medals.

In addition, India also won five gold medals at that tournament, which led to their best-ever finish, 24th position, at the Paralympics.

India is sending more athletes to Paris and will hope to return home with a larger medal tally. Notably, Indian participants will compete in many new sports like Para-Rowing, Blind Judo, and Para-cycling.

Here is the complete list of Indian athletes confirmed for the Paris Paralympics:

Para Archery

• Harvinder Singh: Men's Recurve - ST
• Pooja: Women's Recurve - ST
• Rakesh Kumar: Men's Compound - W2
• Shyam Sundar Swami: Men's Compound - ST
• Sarita: Women's Compound - W2
• Sheetal Devi: Women's Compound - ST

Para Athletics

• Deepthi Jeevanji: Women's 400m T20
• Simran: Women's 100m T12, Women's 200m T12
• Preethi Pal: Women's 100m T35, Women's 200m T35
• Rakshita Raju: Women's 1500m T11
• Dilip Gavit: Men's 400m T47
• Sumit Antil: Men's javelin Throw - F64
• Sandeep: Men's javelin Throw - F64
• Ajeet Singh: Men's javelin Throw - F46
• Rinku: Men's javelin Throw - F46
• Navdeep: Men's javelin Throw - F41
• Parveen Kumar: Men's javelin Throw - F57
• Sandip Sargar: Men's javelin Throw - F64
• Sundar Singh Gurjar: Men's javelin Throw - F46
• Dipesh Kumar: Men's javelin Throw - F54
• Bhavanaben Ajabaji Chaudhary: Women's javelin Throw - F46
• Yogesh Kathuniya: Men's Discus Throw - F56
• Kanchan Lakhani: Women's Discus Throw - F53
• Karamjyoti: Women's Discus Throw - F55
• Sakshi Kasana: Women's Discus Throw - F55
• Dharambir: Men's Club Throw - F51
• Pranav Soorma: Men's Club Throw - F51
• Amit Kumar: Men's Club Throw - F51
• Praveen Kumar: Men's High jump -T64
• Nishad Kumar: Men's High Jump -T47
• Mariyappan Thangevelu: Men's High Jump -T63
• Shailesh Kumar: Men's High Jump -T63
• Sharad Kumar: Men's High Jump -T63
• Ram Pal: Men's High Jump -T47
• Sachin Sarjerao: Men's Shot Put - F46
• Manu: Men's Shot Put - F37
• Ravi Rongali: Men's Shot Put - F40
• Mohd Yasser: Men's Shot Put - F46
• Rohit Kumar: Men's Shot Put - F46
• Arvind: Men's Shot Put - F35
• Soman Rana: Men's Shot Put - F57
• Hokato Hotazhe Sema: Men's Shot Put - F57
• Bhagyashri Madhavrao Jadhav: Women's Shot Put - F34
• Amisha Rawat: Women's Shot Put - F46
  

Para-Badminton

• Manoj Sarkar: Men's Singles - SL3
• Nitesh Kumar: Men's Singles - SL3, Mixed Doubles (SL3-SU5)
• Suhas Yathiraj: Men's Singles - SL4, Mixed Doubles (SL3-SU5)
• Tarun: Men's Singles - SL4
• Sukant Kadam: Men's Singles - SL4
• Krishna Nagar: Men's Singles - SH6
• Sivarajan Solaimalai: Men's Singles - SH6, Mixed Doubles - SH6
• Manasi Joshi: Women's Singles - SL3
• Mandeep Kaur: Women's Singles - SL3
• Palak Kohli: Women's Singles - SL4, Mixed Doubles (SL3-SU5)
• Manisha Ramdass: Women's Singles - SU5
• Thulasimathi Murugesan: Women's Singles - SU5, Mixed Doubles (SL3-SU5)
• Nithya Sre Sivan: Women's Singles - SH6, Mixed Doubles - SH6

Para Canoe

• Prachi Yadav: Women's Va'a Single 200m - VL2
• Yash Kumar: Men's Kayak Single 200m - KL1
• Pooja Ojha: Women's Kayak Single 200m - KL1

Para Cycling

• Arshad Shaik: Road - Men's C2 Ind. TimeTrial, Road - Men's C1-3 Road Race, Track - Men's C1-3 1000m Time Trial, Track - Men's C2 3000m Ind. Pursuit 
• Jyoti Gaderiya: Road - Women's C1-3 Ind. TimeTrial, Road - Women's C1-3 Road Race, Track - Women's C1-3 500m Time Trial, Track - Women's C1-3 3000m Ind. Pursuit
  

Blind Judo

• Kapil Parmar: Men's 60kg - J1
• Kokila: Women's 48kg - J2

Para Powerlifting

• Paramjeet Kumar: Men's up to 49kg
• Ashok: Men's up to 63kg
• Sakina Khatun: Women's up to 45kg
• Kasthuri Rajamani: Women's up to 67kg

Para Rowing

• Anita: PR3 Mix Dbl Sculls - PR3Mix2x
• Naryana Konganapalle: PR3 Mix Dbl Sculls - PR3Mix2x

Shooting Para Sport

• Amir Ahmad Bhat: P3 - Mixed 25m Pistol - SH1
• Avani Lekhara: R2 - Women's 10m Air Rifle Std - SH1, R3 - Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prn - SH1, R8 - Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions - SH1
• Mona Agarwal: R2 - Women's 10m Air Rifle Std - SH1, R6 - Mixed 50m Rifle Prone - SH1, R8 - Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions - SH1
• Nihal Singh: P3 - Mixed 25m Pistol - SH1, P4 - Mixed 50m Pistol - SH1
• Manish Narwal: P1 - Men's 10m Air Pistol - SH1
• Rudransh Khandelwal: P1 - Men's 10m Air Pistol - SH1, P4 -  Mixed 50m Pistol - SH1
• Sidhartha Babu: R3 - Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone - SH1, R6 - Mixed 50m Rifle Prone - SH1
• Sriharsha Devaraddi Ramakrishna: R4 - Mixed 10m Air Rifle Std - SH2, R5 - Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone - SH2 
  
• Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar: R1 - Men's 10m Air Rifle Std - SH1
• Rubina Francis: P2 - Women's 10m Air Pistol - SH1

Para Swimming

• Suyash Narayan Jadhav: Men's 50m Butterfly - S7

Para Table Tennis

• Sonalben Patel: Women's Singles - WS3, Women's Doubles - WD10
• Bhavinaben Patel: Women's Singles - WS4, Women's Doubles - WD10

Para-Taekwondo

• Aruna: Women's 47kg - K44