Paralympics 2024
Paralympics 2024: Indian para-shuttlers clinch five medals, Sumit Antil wins gold - Highlights
Catch Highlights of Indian para-athletes' performance on Day 5 of the Paris Paralympics 2024.
Indian para-athletes earn multiple medals on Day 5 of the Paris Paralympics 2024.
In para-badminton, seven medals were up for grabs. The gold medal prospects were Thulasimathi Murugesan (women's SU5), Nitesh Kumar (men's SL3), and Suhas Yathiraj (men's SL4).
Others, including Sivarajan Solaimalai/Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan (mixed doubles SH6), Manisha Ramadass (women's SU5), Sukant Kadam (men's SL4), and Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan (women's SH6), played in the bronze medal match.
In shooting, Nihal Singh and Amir Ahmad Bhatt took part in the P3 Mixed 25M Pistol SH1 in both Precision and Rapid rounds.
In para-athletics, Yogesh Kathuniya (men's F56 discus) and Sumit Antil (men's F64 javelin) lead India's medal hopes, with Sandip Sanjay Sargar and Sandeep Chaudhary also competing in javelin.
In the women's events, world para athletic champion, Deepthi Jeevanji ran the 400m T20 heats, while Kanchan Lakhani competed in the F53 discus final.
Finally, in para-archery, Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar competed in the Mixed Team Compound event after both concluded their campaigns without medals in the individual category.
As it happened:
Live Updates
- 2 Sep 2024 12:07 PM 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.
- 2 Sep 2024 10:23 AM 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.
- 2 Sep 2024 10:03 AM 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.
- 2 Sep 2024 8:49 AM 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.
