The Paris Paralympic Video games 2024 concluded for India on Sunday, with Pooja Ojha the ultimate athlete in motion. Ojha did not qualify for the ladies’s kayak 200m ultimate and bowed out of the competitors. Because of this, India’s medals tally on the Paris Paralympics ended at 29 — seven golds, 9 silvers and 13 bronze, making it essentially the most rewarded marketing campaign for the nation. Courtesy of the 29 medals, India stood on the 18th place within the factors desk. Pakistan, who had been additionally competing win the occasion, ended the marketing campaign joint-bottom on the 79th place, with only a solitary bronze to its identify.
India did very effectively within the 2024 marketing campaign, beating prime nations like Switzerland, Belgium, South Korea, Turkey, Argentina, and many others. to complete the Paris Para Video games among the many prime 20 international locations on the planet.
Compared to India, the normal heavyweights on the Paralympic Video games — China, Nice Britain, USA, Italy, and many others. did very effectively achieve, ending among the many prime 10 nations. India, having proven vital development in Paris, can be eager to supply a good higher present within the 2028 LA Para Video games.
On Saturday, India earned its twenty ninth and ultimate medal of the Paris Paralympic Video games by way of Navdeep Singh who clinched gold medal in males’s javelin throw F41 classification.
Navdeep, who competes within the classification meant for athletes of brief stature, initially ended with a silver after he upstaged world file holder Solar Pengxiang of China with a 47.32m throw.
Nevertheless, that was upgraded to an unprecedented gold after Iran’s Sadegh Beit Sayah was disqualified for repeatedly displaying an objectionable flag. Pengxiang (44.72m) completed with a silver.
Sayah had managed to nostril forward of the sphere with a brand new Paralympic file of 47.64m in his penultimate throw however misplaced the medal owing to his antics.
The Worldwide Paralympic Committee guidelines bar athletes from making any political gestures on the occasion and Sayah was thrown out of the ultimate outcomes for unsporting/improper conduct.
On the identical venue, Simran, accompanied by her information Abhay Singh, clocked a formidable private better of 24.75sec to complete with a bronze within the girls’s 200m (T12) occasion.
The 24-year-old from Delhi, who was discovered to be visually impaired on the time of her untimely beginning, is the reigning world champion on this occasion. She had completed fourth within the 100m competitors of the continuing Video games and Saturday’s medal helped her redeem her marketing campaign.
Monitor-and-field has contributed 17 medals to this tally, 4 of them gold. The nation is positioned fifteenth within the total standings, led by China with a whopping 208 medals, together with 90 gold.
For Navdeep, the gold makes up for the fourth-place heartbreak he endured within the Tokyo Video games.
An inspector within the Earnings Tax Division, Navdeep has medalled 5 instances on the nationwide degree since taking to the game in 2017. He gained a bronze within the para-world championships earlier this 12 months.
Simran, however, gained two silver medals on the Asian Para Video games in Hangzhou final 12 months and secured three gold medals within the 100m, 200m, and lengthy soar on the inaugural Khelo India Para Video games final December.
She is coached by her husband Naik Gajendra Singh.
With PTI Inputs
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