New Delhi [India], December 30 (ANI): India’s para-athletes upped the ante in Paris to ship a record-breaking efficiency, redefining the usual and elevating the bar within the video games that can observe within the coming years.
The summer season of Paris was one to recollect for the Indian para-athletes and your entire nation. The magnitude of the success of the para-athletes in Paris echoed from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. In 12 days (August 28 to September 8), India made historical past by delivering a efficiency that shall be remembered for years to return.
The Indian contingent rewrote document books after having fun with a historic Paralympics marketing campaign in Paris with a document haul of 29 medals, together with seven gold, 9 silver, and 13 bronze, ending within the 18th place.
India surpassed its earlier most profitable marketing campaign on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, which noticed them return with 19 medals, together with 5 golds, eight silvers, and 6 bronze medals.
It was a marketing campaign that gave a brand new ray of hope to the budding skills who stay eager to excel of their respective sports activities disciplines.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi felt the contribution of India’s para-athletes is greater than medals. PM Modi mentioned that he desires gamers to play extra in Para-sports and get extra medals and thru them, create a cultural change in notion of specially-abled athletes.
“I want all specially abled people are looked to with respect rather than sympathy and are considered no less than others. The fact that you are playing and sweating it out for your girl, this hard work will not go in vain. A new atmosphere is being made. Your contribution is more than a medal, you are producing belief in specially abled people that they are no less,” PM Modi mentioned when he met the India contingent of Paralympics at his residence.
Even the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) president, Devendra Jhajharia, exuded confidence concerning the outcomes that one can count on within the subsequent version.
During an occasion, Jhajharia did not hesitate to make a promise to your entire nation by saying, “We won’t stop here. Our mission is big. We have started preparing for the next Paralympics. I am confident that in the LA 2028 Paralympics, we will perform better. I promise everyone on behalf of the athletes that we will win at least 40 to 50 medals.”But earlier than we head in the direction of the subsequent version, here’s a take a look at the historic marketing campaign, which started with Avani Lekhara opening the medal tally rely.
In the Paris version, a document 84 para-athletes represented India on the Paris 2024 Paralympics, and it was Avani who secured the primary gold for the nation after dominating the ultimate of the ladies’s 10m air rifle.
She notched up and sealed her place on the high of the rostrum with 249.7 factors, which was additionally her private greatest efficiency within the occasion. Her fellow compatriot, Mona Agarwal, snatched the bronze medal in the identical occasion.
The third medal got here from Preethi Pal’s third-place end for the bronze medal after clocking 14.21s within the 100m T35 occasion.
The subsequent medal got here from Manish Narwal’s silver medal effort. He racked up 234.9 factors within the males’s 10m air pistol SH1 pistol to ebook his place on the rostrum. He began the match on a superb notice, however within the center, the Indian shooter dropped to the sixth. However, he did not lose hope and ended the occasion with a silver medal round his neck.
Rubina Francis continued the flurry of medals after ending third and bagging a bronze medal within the P2 – ladies’s 10m air pistol SH-1 closing.
Preethi obtained her fingers on her second and India’s sixth medal within the Paralympics, within the 200m T-35 race, she delivered an attention grabbing efficiency that noticed her take away the bronze medal.
Athlete Nishad Kumar received the silver medal within the males’s excessive soar T47 occasion with a leap of two.04m. Yogesh Kathuniya adopted it up on the opposite aspect of the sphere and bagged the eighth medal for group India following his silver medal triumph within the males’s discus throw F56 closing.
Shuttler Thulasimathi Murugesan misplaced to China’s Yang Qiu Xia 21-17, 21-10 and secured a silver medal within the ladies’s singles SU5. In the bronze medal match of the identical class, Manisha outclassed Denmark’s Cathrine Rosengren 21-12, 21-8. The Indian participant dominated all through the match, securing one other second of glory for the nation.
In the boys’s singles SL4 class, France’s Lucas Mazur utterly ousted Suhas Yathirajwith a straight-set win within the gold medal match. The para-shuttler went down towards the French participant after enduring a 9-21, 13-21 defeat.
The thirteenth medal got here from the Indian archer duo Rakesh Kumar and Sheetal Devi. The duo labored exhausting to clinch the bronze medal within the blended group compound occasion with a 156-155 win over Eleonora Sarti and Matteo Bonnacina of Italy.
As the motion shifted from the badminton courtroom to the sphere of athletics, India javelin thrower Sumit Antil reigned supreme and efficiently defended his gold on the Paris Paralympics with a record-breaking throw.
In the boys’s javelin throw F64 closing, the defending champion broke his document on the Paralympics twice to clinch India’s third gold within the marquee occasion in Paris.
Indian para-shuttler Nithya Sre Sivan clinched a bronze medal within the ladies’s SH6 class. She defeated Indonesia’s Rina Marlina 21-14 and 21-6 and obtained her first-ever medal on the Paralympics.
Para-sprinter Deepthi Jeevanji bagged the sixteenth medal for India as she received the bronze on Tuesday within the ladies’s 400m T20 closing.
Para-athletes Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thangavelu booked a double podium end for India within the males’s excessive soar T6 closing.
With a leap of 1.88m, Sharad obtained his fingers on a silver medal. His compatriot, Mariyappan, settled for the bronze medal with a leap of 1.85m. America’s Ezra Frech rewrote the Paralympic document to remove the gold with 1.94m, a blockbuster efficiency.
The double podium finishes continued to rain for India in athletics after Ajeet Singh and Sundar Singh Gurjar claimed silver and bronze medals, respectively, within the males’s javelin throw F46 occasion at Stade de France.
Sachin Khilari added a silver medal to India’s continuously rising medal tally after delivering a benchmark efficiency within the males’s shot put F46 closing.
Sachin secured the second spot with a 16.32-metre throw, which can be the world greatest (AB). However, the Indian athlete was unfortunate to overlook the highest spot after getting in need of a 0.6m.
India found its first-ever archery champion throughout each the Olympics and Paralympics, with Harvinder Singh getting the highest prize within the gold medal conflict of the person recurve para-archery towards Poland’s Lukasz Ciszek.
Dharambir added the fifth gold medal in India’s tally by setting an Asian Record with an try of 34.92m to take the highest honours within the males’s membership throw F51 occasion.
As the sport headed in the direction of its climax, Pranav Soorma received the silver medal within the males’s membership throw F51 occasion. He sealed the medal with a 34.59 m throw.
Judoka Kapil Parmar executed the Ippon in 33 seconds to finish the competition and take the bronze medal inside the blink of a watch within the males’s -60kg J1 occasion. Kapil’s triumph marked India’s twenty fifth medal in Paris.
In the T64 excessive soar occasion, Praveen Kumar raised the tricolour excessive with an Asian record-breaking soar of two.08 m, touchdown India their sixth gold. India completed the competitors with seven gold medals, the nation’s highest at any Paralympic occasion.
The twenty seventh medal was secured by Hokato Hotozhe Sema within the males’s shot put F57 closing. Hokato recorded the perfect throw of 14.65m, his private greatest try.
Simran Sharma delivered her private greatest efficiency to get her fingers on the bronze medal within the ladies’s 200m T12 closing.
The closing medal for India within the Paris Paralympics was the one to recollect. In a nail-biting affair, Navdeep Singh’s silver medal was upgraded to gold after the preliminary winner, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Sadegh Beit Sayah, obtained disqualified from the ultimate. He had initially completed second with a personal-best throw of 47.32m.
Medalists at a Glance:Gold: Harvinder Singh, Sumit Antil, Dharambir, Praveen Kumar, Navdeep Singh, Nitesh Kumar, Avani LekharaSilver: Nishad Kumar, Yogesh Kathuniya, Sharad Kumar, Ajeet Singh, Sachin Khilari, Pranav Soorma, Thulasimathi Murugesan, Suhas Yathiraj, Manish NarwalBronze: Sheetal Devi, Rakesh Kumar, Preethi Pal, Deepthi Jeevanji, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Sundar Singh Gurjar, Hokato Hotozhe Sema, Simran Sharma, Manisha Ramadass, Nithya Sre Sivan, Kapil Parmar, Mona Agarwal, Rubina Francis. (ANI)