Paris Olympics 2024: Judoka Kapil Parmar Secures Bronze Medal in Men’s 60kg J1 Category

New Delhi: Kapil Parmar created history on Thursday, 5 September, changing into the first-ever Indian to take a medal in para-judo at the Paralympic Games. He won the bronze medal within the boys’s -60 kg category within the Paris 2024 Paralympics by defeating Elielton Oliveira with a extremely good score of 10-zero.

This become how the 24-year-old judoka from Sehor, Madhya Pradesh, leaped to a superior ippon-the most effectiv you would score in judo-as he clinically dispatched his Brazilian opponent within the bronze medal match at Champ-de-Mars Arena.

Parmar’s bronze medal took India’s medal count within the seventeenth Paralympics to a record-extending 25. Three more events are scheduled later on Thursday and India is predicted as a way to add to the medal count. The usa has taken its gold medal count equal to its best-ever haul of 5, which came within the 2022 Tokyo Para Games. India is now ranked 13th within the medal table.

Kapil paaji tussi chha gaye!

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