New Delhi [India], January 1 (ANI): India’s para-athletes shattered the report books in Paris by delivering a efficiency of a lifetime, redefining the usual and elevating the bar within the para-sports that might be seen because the benchmark 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 might be remembered for years to return.
The Indian contingent rewrote report books after having fun with a historic Paralympics marketing campaign in Paris with a report 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 stated 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 to be looked at 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 stated when he met the India contingent of Paralympics at his residence.
Even the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) president, Devendra Jhajharia, exuded confidence in regards to the outcomes that one can anticipate 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 direction of the subsequent version, here’s a have a look at the historic marketing campaign, which started with Avani Lekhara opening the medal tally rely.
In the Paris version, a report 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 prime of the rostrum with 249.7 factors, which was additionally her private finest 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 e book his place on the rostrum. He began the match on a superb word, 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 – girls’s 10m air pistol SH-1 ultimate.
Preethi received her arms 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 facet of the sector and bagged the eighth medal for group India following his silver medal triumph within the males’s discus throw F56 ultimate.
Shuttler Thulasimathi Murugesan misplaced to China’s Yang Qiu Xia 21-17, 21-10 and secured a silver medal within the girls’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 lads’s singles SL4 class, France’s Lucas Mazur fully 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 combined group compound occasion with a 156-155 win over Eleonora Sarti and Matteo Bonnacina of Italy.
As the motion shifted from the badminton court docket to the sector 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 lads’s javelin throw F64 ultimate, the defending champion broke his report 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 girls’s SH6 class. She defeated Indonesia’s Rina Marlina 21-14 and 21-6 and received 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 girls’s 400m T20 ultimate.
Para-athletes Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thangavelu booked a double podium end for India within the males’s excessive soar T6 ultimate.
With a leap of 1.88m, Sharad received his arms 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 report 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 consistently rising medal tally after delivering a benchmark efficiency within the males’s shot put F46 ultimate.
Sachin secured the second spot with a 16.32-metre throw, which can be the realm finest (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 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 ultimate. Hokato recorded the most effective throw of 14.65m, his private finest try.
Simran Sharma delivered her private finest efficiency to get her arms on the bronze medal within the girls’s 200m T12 ultimate.
The ultimate 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, received 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)