Paralympics 2024 Day 8: Kapil Parmar wins India's first-ever medal in blind judo - Highlights
Catch highlights of Indian para-athletes' performance on September 5 at the Paris Paralympics.
India will look to add more medals to their tally at the Paralympics 2024 on Thursday after surpassing their Tokyo Paralympics tally of 19. India so far won 25 medals.
Mona Agarwal and Harvinder Singh will be in action. While Mona aims for a bronze medal, Harvinder and Pooja will look to add a gold medal in the mixed team recurve event. Simran is also a good medal prospect in the women's 100 T12 event.
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With a season best throw of 13.01m, Arvind finishes 6th in the men's shot put F35 finals.
In a highly competitive field, Arvind, with a personal best of 14.77m aims to be the underdog of the competition.
Ashok was unable to lift his third attempt of 206 kg, currently sits in the sixth position, out of the medal contention.
Top three remain unchanged.
Simran along with her guide Abhay Singh, finished 4th with a timing of 12.31s, missing the podium by mere 0.05s.
A great effort nonetheless, a talent to look forward to.
With a best effort of 199 kg, Ashok sits way out of the top spots.
Current leaders:
Yi Zou- First Position (213 kg)
Mark Swan- Second Position (208 kg)
Thomas Kure- Third Position (205 kg)
Ashok lifts 199kg with ease although his position remains unchanged as fourth.
China's Yi Zou currently leads with a 203kg lift on his first attempt.
Ashok has successfully lifted his first attempt of 196kg and is currently in the fourth position.
Mark Swan of Great Britain is currently leading with a best lift of 203kg, with World Record holder Yi Zou of China is still to begin his competition.
Let's see how this event unfolds!
India misses the bronze by a whisker. Singh starts with an 8, while his opponent Dejan scores a 9. Jatyan follows with a 9, but Ziva delivers a 10, securing the bronze medal for Slovenia.
India 17 - 19 Slovenia.
Slovenia went first, with Dejan scoring a disappointing 7 and Ziva hitting a solid 9, just missing a 10. In response, Singh scored a good 9 and Jatyan registered a 7, making it an even split. On the second arrow, Dejan nailed a perfect 10, while Ziva added an 8. Could the Indians close it out? Jatyan started with a wayward 5, and Singh followed with an 8. Slovenia clinched the fourth set.
Shoot-off to follow.
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