Paris Paralympics 2024: Suhas Yathiraj Settles For Men’s Singles SL4 Badminton Silver After Losing To Lucas Mazur
Suhas Yathiraj became the first Indian shuttler to win back-to-back medals at Paralympics.
Paris: Suhas Yathiraj considered necessary to accept silver on the Paris Paralympics 2024 after losing the guys’s singles SL4 badminton classification final match 9-21, 13-21 to Lucas Mazur of France on Monday. With this medal, Yathiraj grew to was once some of the most handy Indian shuttler to win medals at each and every Tokyo and Paris Paralympics. The Forty one-12 months-historic Suhas, a 2007 batch IAS officer, regarded tentative and develop into no match for the daring French, losing in a lop-sided summit clash.
The loss meant Lucas as soon as elevated denied Suhas the glory, having beaten him internal the Tokyo Paralympics final three years formerly.
Born with a congenital deformity in his left ankle, which drastically affected his mobility, Suhas plays in SL4 classification which is meant for athletes competing while standing with less serious impairment than in SL3.
His silver took India’s medal tally in Paris Paralympics para-badminton to 4, following the gold won by skill of Kumar Nitesh (SL3) and silver and bronze claimed by skill of Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manisha Ramadass in women folks’s singles SU5.
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