After the Tokyo Olympics, India has also performed record breaking in the Tokyo Paralympics. India won 7 medals including 1 gold in Olympics. This is India’s best performance in any 1 Olympic Games. Our para athletes went even further. He won 19 medals for the country in the 16th Paralympic Games held in Tokyo, overcoming physical flaws. This includes 5 gold medals. This is India’s record breaking performance in Paralympics. India had earlier won 12 medals in 11 Paralympics in 53 years. That is, in this event, India achieved 42% more success than the medals won in all the previous events.
Record of medals of all colors
India also set the record of winning all types of medals this time. This time India’s name was 5 gold. Earlier, India has not won more than two gold medals in any Paralympic Games. Similarly, India won 8 silvers in Tokyo. India had earlier won 4 silvers in total. Never before had more than 2 silvers come in a Paralympic. Bronze won 6 this time. Prior to this, a total of 4 bronzes were won. Bronze had also not met more than 2 in any one Paralympic before this.
Gold started
with Avani, Avani Lekhara won the first gold shooting event for the country in Paralympic Games. Avni from Jaipur won the gold medal by securing first position in the women’s R-2 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1.
The second gold for India came in the account of Sumit Antil in the javelin throw. Sumit won the gold medal with a world record in the F64 category of Javelin Throw. He won the medal in the final with a best throw of 68.55 metres.
The third gold came in the account of 19-year-old shooter Manish Narwal. Manish won the gold medal in the mixed 50m SH1. Narwal scored 209.1 in the final.
And two golds came in badminton. Pramod Bhagat won 4th Gold in SL3. In SH6, Krishna Nagar gave India gold on the last day.
