Paralympics 2024: Indian para-shuttlers clinch five medals, Sumit Antil wins gold

2024-09-02 12:52 GMT

Para-Badminton: Indians Rule the Men's Singles SL3 Category

🥇Pramod Bhagat, Tokyo 2020
🥇Nitesh Kumar, Paris 2024

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝐿3 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 '𝑔𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛' 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑎! 🇮🇳🏸#Paralympics #Paralympics2024 pic.twitter.com/0whTFuiIaN
— The Bridge (@the_bridge_in) September 2, 2024

2024-09-02 12:40 GMT

Para-Shooting: Nihal Kumar & Amir Ahmad misses the Final's Bus

#ShootingParaSport | After a great Precision stage, both the shooter Nihal & Amir could not take the momentum in the rapid stage in P3 - Mixed 25m pistol SH1 qualification event.

Nihal finished on 🔟th place with 569 points while Amir finished on 1⃣1⃣th place 568 with points.… pic.twitter.com/hyIOPCvIov
— The Bridge (@the_bridge_in) September 2, 2024

2024-09-02 12:07 GMT

Nitesh Kumar: An Electrical Engineer turned into an Electric Athlete

Read about Nitesh's journey from IIT Mandi to clinching the Gold medal in the Paris Paralympics 2024:- here.

2024-09-02 11:37 GMT

Para-Badminton: Nitesh Kumar clinches Gold

#ParaBadminton | Nitesh Kumar wins Gold Medal, 2nd for 🇮🇳 in Men's Singles SL3 category.

He defeats 2nd seeded 🇬🇧's Daniel Bethell 21-14, 18-21, 23-21 in a 3-set nail-biting thriller.

(📸: Khel India/x) pic.twitter.com/b1M1DYPYKf
— The Bridge (@the_bridge_in) September 2, 2024

2024-09-02 10:23 GMT

Yogesh Kathuniya's Story: How his mother's therapy changed his Life

An athlete has to go through an infinite number of obstacles to achieve glory and so is the case of Yogesh, read how his mother's will and constant support took him from Bahadurgarh and helped to clinch two back-to-back silvers.

Read about Yogesh and his mother's story here.

2024-09-02 10:03 GMT

Live Para-Badminton: Nitesh Kumar's Gold Medal Match

Nitesh Kumar playing in the men's singles SL3 will begin his Gold medal match with Great Britain's Daniel Bethell.

Catch the live updates here.

2024-09-02 09:37 GMT

Yogesh becomes the 4th Indian to get back-to-back Paralympic Medals

Only 4⃣ Indians have won para-athletics medals in back-to-back editions of the #Paralympics 😇🇮🇳

💠Mariyappan Thangavelu (2016 & 2020)
💠Devendra Jhajharia (2016 & 2020)
💠Nishad Kumar (2020 & 2024)
💠Yogesh Kathuniya (2020 & 2024)#Paralympics2024 #ParalympicGames pic.twitter.com/ffkLBBtmLA
— The Bridge (@the_bridge_in) September 2, 2024

2024-09-02 09:14 GMT

Medal Alert: Yogesh Kathuniya wins Silver at Discus Throw F56

Yogesh Kathuniya wins Silver Medal 🔥🔥

First Discus thrower double medallist!

Paris 2024 🥈
Tokyo 2020 🥈

His best throw of 4⃣2⃣.2⃣2⃣m came in the first attempt.#ParisParalympics2024 pic.twitter.com/8gvWMD53sP
— The Bridge (@the_bridge_in) September 2, 2024

2024-09-02 08:59 GMT

Para-Athletics: Yogesh Kathuniya confirms a medal, throws Season's Best

2024-09-02 08:49 GMT

Para-Badminton: Sivarajan-Nitya lost Bronze medal match

The Indian mixed doubles duo bowed out to the Indonesian pair of Subhan and Rina in straight sets 17-21,12-21.

#Parabadminton | 2nd Seed, Pair of Nithya Sre & Sivarajan Solaimalai goes down in Mixed Doubles SH6 Bronze medal match.

🇮🇩's Subhan/Rina gets better of Nithya/Sivarajan 21-17, 21-12.#ParisParalympics2024 pic.twitter.com/DXr0VUlZmw
— The Bridge (@the_bridge_in) September 2, 2024

Paralympics 2024: Indian para-shuttlers clinch five medals, Sumit Antil wins gold - Highlights