Paralympics 2024 Day 3: Parveen finishes 8th in Men's Javelin Throw, Rubina wins bronze in pistol shooting- Highlights
Catch highlights of Indian para-athletes' performances on Day 3 of the Paris Paralympics 2024.
Indian para-athletes will look to increase their medal tally today after opening their account with four medals on Friday.
Sheetal Devi, the World's first armless archer, and Sarita will compete in the knockout rounds which will be followed by the medal matches.
Para-shooter Rubina Francis bags bronze in the P2 women's 10m air pistol final while Praveen Kumar will aim to clinch India's second para-athletics medal when he competes in the men's javelin F57 final.
As it happened:
Parveen needs a throw of more than 49.46m to have any chance of medalling. But this is way beyond his personal best of 42.87m.
After nine throwers finished their attempts, this is how the top 3 of men's javelin throw F57 looks like:
Uzbekistan - Yorkinbek Odilov - 50.32m
Turkiye - Muhammet Khalvandi - 49.97m
Brazil - Cícero Valdiran Lins Nobre - 49.46m
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