4,400 participants from all around the world will be participating in 549 medal events across 22 sports in the Paralympics in Paris.
Beginning with the ceremonial opening ceremony on August 28 (events scheduled starting on August 29) the Paris Paralympics 2024 will run until September 8.
With 166 medals overall—including 74 golds—China keeps a good lead at the top. With 36 and 27 gold medals respectively, Great Britain ranks second and USA third.
At Paris, India has won five gold, nine silver, and eleven bronze medals to mark its best-ever run at one Paralympic Games.
After beating Elielton de Oliveira of Brazil, Kapil Parmar won India's 25th medal in the men's -60kg J1 bronze.
Defeating Poland's Lukasz Ciszek 6-0 (28-24, 28-27, 29-25) in the men's individual recurve open final to secure his second straight medal at the Paralympic Games, Harvinder Singh won a historic first-ever gold medal for India in para archery.
Later in the day, Dharambir equalled Tokyo by setting an Asian Record of 34.92m to earn the sixth gold in the men's club throw F51 final at the Paralympics. Pranav Soorma won silver in the same event with a 34.59 m throw.
With a throw of 16.32m, Sachin Khilari earlier earned a silver medal in men's shot throw F46 final.
On September 3, Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thangavelu tied for silver and bronze in the men's high jump T63. On the men's javelin F46, Sundar Singh Gurjar took a bronze while Ajeet Singh won a silver medal. In the 400m T20 women's event, Deepthi Jeevenji claimed bronze.
With a Paralympic record of 70.59m, Sumit Antil took third gold medal in the men's javelin throw F64 from India.
Gold in para badminton men's singles SL3 went to Nitesh Kumar. In the women's singles SU5 event later, Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manisha Ramadass took silver and bronze medals, respectively. To add to India's count to 15 medals, Nithya Sre defeated Rani Marlina of Indonesia to grab bronze in women's singles SH6 category.
Yogesh Kathuniya's silver in the men's discus F56 final earned India eighth medal at Paris Paralympics 2024.
In the gold medal match for men's singles SL4, Suhas Yathiraj fell against Lucas Mazur. In the bronze medal contest Indian para archers Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar defeated Italy's Eleonora Sarti and Matteo Bonacina 156-155. After Harvinder Singh brought bronze from Tokyo, this will be India's second para archery medal.
In the men's high jump T47 final, Nishad Kumar came second; Preethi Pal took home a bronze medal in the women's 200m T35 event.
With Avani Lekhara bagging a gold and Mona Agarwal getting bronze in the women's 10m air rifle standing SH1, India also has four medals in shooting. Manish Narwal secured silver in men's 10m air pistol SH1; Rubina Francis got bronze in the P2 Women's 10m Air Pistol SH1.
4,400 participants from all around the world will be participating in 549 medal events across 22 sports in the Paralympics in Paris.
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4,400 participants from all around the world will be participating in 549 medal events across 22 sports in the Paralympics in Paris.
Beginning with the ceremonial opening ceremony on August 28 (events scheduled starting on August 29) the Paris Paralympics 2024 will run until September 8.
With 166 medals overall—including 74 golds—China keeps a good lead at the top. With 36 and 27 gold medals respectively, Great Britain ranks second and USA third.
At Paris, India has won five gold, nine silver, and eleven bronze medals to mark its best-ever run at one Paralympic Games.
After beating Elielton de Oliveira of Brazil, Kapil Parmar won India's 25th medal in the men's -60kg J1 bronze.
Defeating Poland's Lukasz Ciszek 6-0 (28-24, 28-27, 29-25) in the men's individual recurve open final to secure his second straight medal at the Paralympic Games, Harvinder Singh won a historic first-ever gold medal for India in para archery.
Later in the day, Dharambir equalled Tokyo by setting an Asian Record of 34.92m to earn the sixth gold in the men's club throw F51 final at the Paralympics. Pranav Soorma won silver in the same event with a 34.59 m throw.
With a throw of 16.32m, Sachin Khilari earlier earned a silver medal in men's shot throw F46 final.
On September 3, Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thangavelu tied for silver and bronze in the men's high jump T63. On the men's javelin F46, Sundar Singh Gurjar took a bronze while Ajeet Singh won a silver medal. In the 400m T20 women's event, Deepthi Jeevenji claimed bronze.
With a Paralympic record of 70.59m, Sumit Antil took third gold medal in the men's javelin throw F64 from India.
Gold in para badminton men's singles SL3 went to Nitesh Kumar. In the women's singles SU5 event later, Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manisha Ramadass took silver and bronze medals, respectively. To add to India's count to 15 medals, Nithya Sre defeated Rani Marlina of Indonesia to grab bronze in women's singles SH6 category.
Yogesh Kathuniya's silver in the men's discus F56 final earned India eighth medal at Paris Paralympics 2024.
In the gold medal match for men's singles SL4, Suhas Yathiraj fell against Lucas Mazur. In the bronze medal contest Indian para archers Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar defeated Italy's Eleonora Sarti and Matteo Bonacina 156-155. After Harvinder Singh brought bronze from Tokyo, this will be India's second para archery medal.
In the men's high jump T47 final, Nishad Kumar came second; Preethi Pal took home a bronze medal in the women's 200m T35 event.
With Avani Lekhara bagging a gold and Mona Agarwal getting bronze in the women's 10m air rifle standing SH1, India also has four medals in shooting. Manish Narwal secured silver in men's 10m air pistol SH1; Rubina Francis got bronze in the P2 Women's 10m Air Pistol SH1.
4,400 participants from all around the world will be participating in 549 medal events across 22 sports in the Paralympics in Paris.