Paris Paralympics 2024: India Break Own Record Of Most Medals From Single Edition, Late Night Medal Rush Lifts Nation
India have won record 20 medals at the Paris Paralympics 2024 breaking their record of 19 medals set at the Tokyo Paralympics 2021.
It used to be yet yet another productive day for India within the continuing Paris Paralympics 2024 as India have already recorded their best-ever medal haul of 20 from a single edition of the Games. Indian para-athletes won silver and bronze in both men’s high jump T63 and javelin throw F46 after Deepthi Jeevanji’s bronze within the girls’s 400m T20 category late on Tuesday (September 3) night.
Sooner than Paris Paralympics, India’s best-ever medal haul came on the Tokyo Paralympics 2021 after they came home with 19 medals three years back. India will home to feature about a more medals before the Paralympics games involves an end on Sunday (September eight).
Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thangavelu won silver and bronze respectively within the men’s high jump T63 while Ajeet Singh and Sundar Singh Gurjar took the 2d and 1/3 sports within the javelin throw F46 final. The 32-year-old Kumar cleared 1.88m while the 29-year-old Thangavelu’s best effort used to be 1.85m. World record holder Frech Ezra of the US won the gold.
Check India’s medal tally on the Paris Paralympics 2024 after Tuesday night here…
With 2⃣ brilliant double podium finishes and Deepthi Jeevanji’s #Bronze, India now stands tall at nineteenth position with a total of 20 medals, the most effective-ever finish in any #Paralympics till date.@Media_SAI @IndiaSports #Paralympics2024 p.c.twitter.com/0pDK8r6lEa
— DD News (@DDNewslive) September four, 2024
T63 classification is for athletes with single through knee or above knee limb deficiency. Both Kumar and Thangavelu were T42 athletes who've single above-the-knee amputations or a disability or not it is comparable. T63 classification is for athletes with single through knee or above knee limb deficiency competing with a prosthesis.
In actual fact, Sharad’s 1.88m effort is a Paralympic record in T42, bettering the earlier 1.86m set by Thangavelu. Within the Tokyo Paralympics three years ago, Sharad Kumar had won bronze while reigning world champion Thangavelu had clinched a silver. It used to be a form or reversal here on Tuesday.
Ajeet upstaged world record holder Gurjar (sixty four.96m) with a fifth-round throw of sixty five.62m. Guillermo Gonzalez Varona of Cuba won gold with sixty six.16m. It used to be Gurjar’s 2d consecutive bronze within the Paralympics as he had bagged the medal of same colour in Tokyo also three years ago.
Earlier within the day, India’s world champion Deepthi came up in need of her best timing as she won a bronze medal within the girls’s 400m T20 category final race. Deepthi, who turns 21 later this month, clocked Fifty five.eighty two seconds to complete on the back of Yuliia Shuliar (Fifty five.Sixteen seconds) of Ukraine and world record holder Aysel Onder (Fifty five.23) of Turkey.
Deepthi had come into Paris Paralympics as a magnificent contender for the gold after a top-place finish on the World Para-Athletics Championships in May in Japan where she had clocked the-then world record of Fifty five.07 seconds.
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