India’s Paralympic campaign at the Paris Paralympics 2024 concluded with a total of 29 medals, marking the country’s best performance in the competition’s history. India surpassed its previous most successful campaign at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, where they secured 19 medals, including five golds, eight silvers, and six bronze medals. The country also crossed the 50-medal mark in Paralympic Games history with this impressive performance.
A record 84 para-athletes represented the tricolour from August 28 to the conclusion of the event on Sunday, competing across 12 disciplines. India also made its debut in three sports in Paris: para-cycling, para-rowing, and blind judo. The 29 medals were won across five sports, with 17 coming from track and field events.
Nitesh Kumar clinched a gold medal in the men’s singles SL3 badminton event.
Manish Narwal wins silver medal in the men’s 10m air pistol SH1 category.
Preethi Pal wins a bronze medal becoming the first to do so in the athletics category.
Rubina Francis wins bronze medal in women’s 10m air pistol SH1 event
Avani Lekhara wins India’s gold in the women’s 10m air rifle shooting
Mona Agarwal wins a bronze medal in the women’s 10m air rifle shooting
Sumit Antil wins the gold medal in the javelin throw F64 event with a new personal record of 70.59m
Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar win bronze in the mixed team compound archery event
Suhas Yathiraj brings home silver n the men’s single SL4 badminton event
Thulasimathi Murugesan secured silver in the women’s singles SU5 badminton event
Manisha Ramdass took home bronze in the women’s singles SU5 badminton event
Yogesh Kathuniya bagged the silver medal in the men’s discus throw F56 event
Nisha Kumar clinched the silver medal in the men’s high jump T47 event
Nithya Sre Sivan wins the bronze medal in badminton SH6 category
Harvinder Singh brings home a gold medal in the men’s individual recurve open.
Deepthi Jeevanji clinched the bronze medal in the women’s 400m T20 final
Ajeet Singh bagged the silver medal in men’s javelin F46 event
Sundar Singh Gujar brings home the bronze medal in men’s javelin F46 event
Sharad Kumar bags the silver medal in the men’s high jump T42 event
Mariyappan Thangavelu won the bronze medal in men’s high jump T42 event
Dharambir wins a gold while Pranav Soorma bags the silver medal in the men’s club throw F51 event
Sachin Khilari clinched a silver medal in the men’s shot put F46 Final
Kapil Parmar bagged the bronze medal in men’s blind judo 60 Kg J1
Praveen Kumar clinched the gold medal in para athletics men’s high jump T64 event.
Hokato Sema won the bronze medal in men’s short put F57 event.
Simran Sharma brought home the bronze medal in women’s 200m T12 event
Navdeep Singh clinched the gold medal in men’s javelin throw F41 event.