India’s journey in Paris Paralympics 2024 has ended. On 8 September (Sunday), Pooja Ojha could not qualify for the Women’s KL1 200m final in Canoe Sprint. This was India’s last event in the current games. If seen, India performed very well in Paris Paralympics. This time India won a record 29 medals. This included 7 gold, 9 silver and 13 bronze medals. India has been at number 18 in the medal tally. India left behind countries like Switzerland, South Korea, Belgium and Argentina in the medal tally.
If we look at it, India has performed its best ever in the Paralympic Games and the previous records have been broken. Earlier, India’s best performance in the Paralympic Games was in Tokyo. In Tokyo Paralympics 2020, India won 5 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze medals. With a total of 19 medals, India had then secured 24th position.
India won the most medals in athletics
This time India won the most medals in athletics, 17, including four gold medals. After this, the second number was in para badminton, in which India won 5 medals including one gold. India got 4 medals including one gold in parashooting. On the other hand, India won 2 medals including one gold in para archery and 1 bronze medal in para judo. For the first time India has won so many gold medals in the Paralympic Games. Earlier, Indian players had won 5 gold medals in Tokyo Paralympics.
If we look at the period from 1968 to 2016, India had won only 12 medals in the Paralympic Games. But India has now won four times more medals than that in the last two Paralympic Games combined. India has won 19 medals in Tokyo and 29 medals in Paris, which adds up to a total of 48. This long flight of India in the Paralympic Games holds a lot of significance.
Para athlete Murlikant Petkar won the first medal for India in the Paralympic Games in the year 1972. Murlikant Petkar is the same player on whose life the film ‘Chandu Champion’ was also released recently. Shooter Avani Lekhara won the first medal for India in the Paris Paralympics 2024, which was a gold medal. After this, Nitesh Kumar (Badminton), Sumit Antil (Athletics), Harvinder Singh (Athletics), Dharambir (Athletics), Praveen Kumar (Athletics) and Navdeep Singh (Athletics) also succeeded in winning gold medals.
India’s medallists at Paris Paralympics 2024
1. Avani Lekhara (Shooting)- Gold Medal, Women’s 10m Air Rifle (SH1)
2. Mona Agarwal (Shooting)- Bronze Medal, Women’s 10m Air Rifle (SH1)
3. Preeti Pal (Athletics)- Bronze Medal, Women’s 100m Race (T35)
4. Manish Narwal (Shooting)- Silver Medal, Men’s 10m Air Pistol (SH1)
5. Rubina Francis (Shooting)- Bronze Medal, Women’s 10m Air Pistol (SH1)
6. Preeti Pal (Athletics)- Bronze Medal, Women’s 200m Race (T35)
7. Nishad Kumar (Athletics)- Silver Medal, Men’s High Jump (T47)
8. Yogesh Kathuniya (Athletics)- Silver Medal, Men’s Discus Throw (F56)
9. Nitesh Kumar (Badminton)- Gold Medal, Men’s Singles (SL3)
10. Manisha Ramdas (Badminton)- Bronze Medal, Women’s Singles (SU5)
11. Thulasimathi Murugesan (Badminton)- Silver Medal, Women’s Singles (SU5)
12. Suhas L Yathiraj (Badminton)- Silver Medal, Men’s Singles (SL4)
13. Sheetal Devi-Rakesh Kumar (Archery)- Bronze Medal, Mixed Compound Open
14. Sumit Antil (Athletics) – Gold Medal, Men’s Javelin Throw (F 64 Category)
15. Nitya Sri Sivan (Badminton)- Bronze Medal, Women’s Singles (SH6)
16. Deepti Jeevanjee (Athletics)- Bronze Medal, Women’s 400m (T20)
17. Mariyappan Thangavelu (Athletics)- Bronze Medal, Men’s High Jump (T63)
18. Sharad Kumar (Athletics) – Silver Medal, Men’s High Jump (T63)
19. Ajit Singh (Athletics) – Silver Medal, Men’s Javelin Throw (F46)
20. Sundar Singh Gurjar (Athletics) – Bronze Medal, Men’s Javelin Throw (F46)
21. Sachin Sarjerao Khilari (Athletics) – Silver Medal, Men’s Shot Put (F46)
22. Harvinder Singh (Archery)- Gold Medal, Men’s Individual Recurve Open
23. Dharambir (Athletics)- Gold Medal, Men’s Club Throw (F51)
24. Pranav Surma (Athletics)- Silver Medal, Men’s Club Throw (F51)
25. Kapil Parmar (Judo) – Bronze Medal, Men’s 60kg (J1)
26. Praveen Kumar (Athletics)- Gold Medal, Men’s High Jump (T44)
27. Hokato Hotoze Sema (Athletics) – Bronze Medal, Men’s Shot Put (F57)
28. Simran Sharma (Athletics)- Bronze Medal, Women’s 200m (T12)
29. Navdeep Singh (Athletics) – Gold Medal, Men’s Javelin Throw (F41)
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