How Navdeep Singh Silver Upgraded to Gold: India’s Navdeep Singh won the gold medal in the Men’s Javelin Throw (F41) event at the Paris Paralympics 2024. In the final match, Navdeep Singh threw the javelin 47.32 meters in his second attempt, which was the best throw of his career so far. In this match, Navdeep Singh threw the javelin 47.32 meters in his second attempt, which was the best throw of his career so far. For the first time, an Indian player has won the gold medal in the Men’s Javelin Throw (F41) event. The F41 class is for those athletes who are of short stature. With this gold medal, India’s medal count in Paris Paralympics 2024 has gone up to 29. India has so far won 7 gold, 9 silver and 14 bronze medals. India is currently at number 16 in the medal tally.
Why was Iran’s Sadegh disqualified?
Although Navdeep was in the silver medal position, but after the competition, Iran’s Sadegh Sayah Bet, who was at the top, was disqualified. Due to which Navdeep’s silver was upgraded to gold. Sadegh threw a throw of 47.64 meters in his fifth attempt, but due to his actions, he will return empty-handed from the Paris Paralympics.
Beit Sayah’s flag celebrations at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics – no fuss, no action
Beit Sayah’s flag celebrations at Paris 2024 Paralympics – gold snatched away
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The Paris Paralympic Committee has not disclosed the reasons for Sadegh Sayah Bet’s disqualification in detail. But it is being said that the Iranian player repeatedly showed an offensive flag during the match, due to which she was disqualified from the competition. For this, she was also shown a yellow card during the match. That flag was black in colour, on which something was written in Arabic in red colour.
Rule 8.1 of the World Para Athletics (WPA) Code of Conduct states, “WPA Para Athletics is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity, ethics and conduct in sport. Athletes, coaches, officials and administrators participating in the sport have a responsibility to maintain these standards and ensure that the sport is conducted in a fair, honest and transparent manner.”
Due to the disqualification of the Iranian player, apart from Navdeep, Chinese player Pengjiang and Iraq’s Wildan Nukhailawi also benefited. Pengjiang Sun (44.72 meters) won the silver medal, who was earlier in a position to win the bronze. While Iraq’s Wildan Nukhailawi (40.46 meters) won the bronze medal.
Navdeep’s performance in the final
First attempt – Foul
Second throw- 46.39 meters
Third throw- 47.32 meters
Fourth throw – foul
Fifth throw- 46.05 meters
Sixth throw – Foul
India has performed its best ever in the Paralympic Games. In Tokyo Paralympics 2020, India won 5 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze medals. With a total of 19 medals, this was India’s best performance in the Paralympic Games. Para athlete Muralikant Petkar won India’s first medal in the Paralympic Games in the year 1972. Muralikant Petkar is the same player on whose life the film ‘Chandu Champion’ was also released recently.
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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