Paris Paralympics 2024: Preethi Pal Secures Bronze Medal In Women’s 100m T35 Class

New Delhi: Preethi Buddy created archives currently at the Paris Paralympics 2024, she grew to be the first Indian athlete to win a Paralympic medal in music hobbies by securing a bronze in the adult females’s 100m T35 classification. The 23-year-historic Indian para-athlete recorded a private best timing of 14.21s, ending at the again of Persons’s Republic of China’s Zhou Xia and Qianqian Guo, who clocked 13.58s and 13.74s, respectively.

Formerly this year, Preethi is all set as she certified for her maiden Paralympics by winning a bronze medal in the adult females’s 200m T35 at the World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan.

“Beforehand I came to Paris, I hoped to get a medal as in the worlds – I received the bronze medal, so I conception I may ought to do it at these Paralympics,” Preethi referred to after her historic run at Stade de France. “Now I'm hoping to get a medal in the 200m”, referred to Preethi Buddy.

“I'm (now) coaching with many sturdy and experienced para athletes…At the Asian Para Video games I was once fourth exceedingly the opposite hand two years on I received a Paralympics medal,” she provided.

The Indian para-athlete, who neglected out on a medal at the Asian Para Video games in China remaining year, referred to shifting her coaching to New Delhi proved a explicit outcome stumble upon.

“A historic fulfillment by Preeti Buddy, as she wins her 2d medal in the identical edition of the Paralympics 2024 with a Bronze in the Girls’s 200m T35 experience! She is an notion for the humans of India. Her dedication is with ease fabulous,”, PM Modi wrote.

A historic fulfillment by Preeti Buddy, as she wins her 2d medal in the identical edition of the #Paralympics2024 with a Bronze in the Girls’s 200m T35 experience! She is an notion for the humans of India. Her dedication is with ease fabulous. #Cheer4Bharat p.c.twitter.com/4q3IPJDUII

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 1, 2024