Asian Para Video games: Indian para athletes create historical past with a record-breaking 111 medals at Hangzhou Asian Para Video games | Asian Video games 2023 Information
The Indian para athletes received 4 extra medals than the able-bodied athletes, with 29 gold, 31 silver, and 51 bronze within the Hangzhou Asian Video games, which passed off from September 23 to October 8.
India completed fifth within the medal rely, trailing China (521 medals: 214 gold, 167 silver, 140 bronze), Iran (44 gold, 46 silver, 41 bronze), Japan (42, 49, 59), and Korea (30, 33, 40).
The primary Para Asian Video games had been held in Guangzhou, China, in 2010, with India ending fifteenth with 14 medals, together with one gold.
India completed fifteenth and eighth within the 2014 and 2018 tournaments, respectively.
The one time India had received 100 medals in a significant worldwide multi-sport occasion (Olympics, Asian Video games, and Commonwealth Video games) was on the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Video games.
“We’ve got made historical past, our para athletes have made the nation proud. We’ll win extra medals within the Paris Paralympics than in Tokyo,” Paralympic Committee of India president Deepa Malik advised PTI.
“Nevertheless, it’s not a shock for us. We anticipated between 110 to 115 medals and we ended at 111, the auspicious quantity (Angel Quantity),” she added.
Asian Para Video games Day 6
On Thursday, India surpassed the earlier finest Asian Para Video games tally of 72 medals (15 gold, 24 silver, 33 bronze) set in 2018.
India earned 39 extra medals than in 2018, with athletics accounting for 55 (18 gold, 17 silver, and 20) of India’s complete of 111.
With 21, together with 4 gold medals, Indian shuttlers got here in second. Chess and archery every acquired eight medals, whereas capturing acquired six.
On the ultimate day, India collected 12 medals, together with 4 gold. Chess received seven medals, athletics received 4, and rowing received one.
Neeraj Yadav started the day with a gold medal in males’s javelin throw F55, setting a Video games document of 33.69m. In the identical occasion, compatriot Tek Chand received bronze with a private better of 30.36m.
Dilip Mahadu Gaviot received the boys’s 400m T47 competitors in 49.48 seconds, including one other gold medal to his assortment.
Pooja then received the ultimate athletics medal, a bronze medal within the ladies’s 1500m T20 race in 5:38.81s.
Chess gamers saved the very best for final with a seven-medal assault on the final day, together with two gold medals.
Satish Inani Darpan received gold within the males’s particular person fast VI-B1 occasion, whereas Pradhan Kumar Soundarya and Ashwinbhai Kanchanbhai Makwana took silver and bronze, respectively. The trio additionally received the staff gold medal.
Kishan Gangoli completed third within the males’s particular person fast VI-B2/B3 occasion. In the identical occasion, Gangoli, Somendra, and Aryan Balchandra Joshi received bronze as a staff.
Within the ladies’s quick VI-B1 staff occasion, Vruthi Saganlal Jain, Himanshi Bhaveshkumar Rathi, and Sanskruti Vikas Extra received bronze.
On Saturday, Anita and Konganapalle Narayana earned a silver medal within the PR3 combined double sculls occasion, giving India its lone medal in rowing.
India despatched 313 rivals to the Hangzhou Para Asian Video games, essentially the most in any version, together with 51 Tokyo Paralympians.
India competed in 17 of the 22 sports activities, together with rowing, canoeing, garden bowl, taekwondo, and blind soccer for the primary time.
The Hangzhou Asian Para Video games embody practically 4,000 individuals from 43 nations collaborating in 566 gold-medal occasions throughout 22 sports activities.
The Hangzhou Asian Para Video games had been initially slated for October 9-15, 2022, however had been pushed again a yr due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
(With inputs from PTI)
