India at Paralympics 2024: All you need to know

Post At: Aug 27/2024 02:10AM

The 84-member Indian contingent taking part in the Paris Paralympics beginning on August 28 will be accompanied by 95 officials as many participants will have their coaches and escorts travelling with them to take care of their special needs.

The total strength of the Indian contingent will thus have 179 members.

Out of the 95, as many as 77 are team officials, nine are contingent medical officials and another nine are contingent officials.

India is sending the largest number of participants in the Paris Paralympics (August 28 to September 8) with 84 athletes competing in 12 sports. In the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021, India was represented by 54 members in nine sports.

Here is the list of Indian players

Para Archery

Athlete Event State
Harvinder Singh Men’s Individual recurve open Haryana
Rakesh Kumar Men’s Individual compound open Jammu and Kashmir
Shyam Sunder Swami Men’s Individual compound open Rajasthan
Pooja Women’s Individual recurve open Haryana
Sarita Women’s Individual compound open Haryana
Sheetal Devi  Women’s Individual compound open Jammu and Kashmir

Para Athletics

Athlete Event State
Nishad Kumar Men’s high jump Himachal Pradesh
Sumit Men’s Javelin throw Haryana
Mariyappan Thangavelu Men’s high jump Tamil Nadu
Sachin S Khilari Men’s shot put Maharashtra
Rinku Men’s javelin throw Haryana
Ajeet Singh Men’s javelin throw Uttar Pradesh
Sandeep Men’s javelin throw New Delhi
Yogesh Kathuniya Men’s discus throw New Delhi
Dharambir Men’s club throw Haryana
Navdeep Men’s javelin throw Haryana
Manu Men’s shot put Haryana
Parveen Kumar Men’s javelin throw Haryana
Ram Pal Men’s high jump Haryana
Ravi Rongali Men’s shot put Andhra Pradesh
Sandip Sanjay Sargar Men’s javelin throw Maharashtra
Sundar Singh Gurjar Men’s javelin throw Rajasthan
Shailesh Kumar Men’s high jump Bihar
Sharad Kumar Men’s high jump Bihar
Mohd Yasser Men’s shot put Punjab
Rohit Kumar Men’s shot put Haryana
Pranav Soorma Men’s club throw New Delhi
Amit Kumar Men’s club throw Haryana
Arvind Men’s shot put Haryana
Dipesh Kumar Men’s javelin Uttar Pradesh
Praveen Kumar Men’s high jump Uttar Pradesh
Dilip Mahadu Gavit Men’s 400M Maharashtra
Soman Rana Men’s shot put Meghalaya
Hokato Hotozhe Sema Men’s shot put Nagaland
Deepthi Jeevanji Women’s 400M Telangana
Simran Women’s 100M, 200M Uttar Pradesh
Preeti Pal Women’s 100M, 200M Uttar Pradesh
Bhagyashri M Jadhav Women’s shot put Maharashtra
Rakshita Raju Women’s 1500M Karnataka
Sakshi Kasana Women’s discus Uttar Pradesh
Amisha Rawat Women’s shotput Uttarakhand
Karam Jyothi Women’s discus Haryana
Kanchan Lakhani Women’s discus Haryana
Bhavanaben Ajabaji Chaudhary Women’s Javelin Gujarat
Para Badminton
Athlete Event State
Krishna Nagar Men’s singles Rajasthan
Manoj Sarkar Men’s singles Uttarakhand
Nitesh Kumar Men’s singles

Mixed doubles

 Rajasthan
Solaimalai Sivarajan Men’s singles

Mixed doubles

 Tamil Nadu
Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj Men’s singles

Mixed doubles

 Uttar Pradesh
Sukant Kadam Men’s singles Maharashtra
Tarun Men’s singles New Delhi
Palak Kohli Women’s singles

Mixed doubles

 New Delhi
Nitya Sre Sumathi Sivan Women’s singles

Mixed doubles

 Tamil Nadu
Mandeep Kaur Women’s singles Uttarakhand
Manasi Joshi Women’s singles Gujarat
Thulasimathi Murugesan Women’s singles

Mixed doubles

 Tamil Nadu
Manisha Ramadass Women’s singles Tamil Nadu

Para Canoe

Athlete Event State
Prachi Yadav Women’s VA’A single 200M Madhya Pradesh
Yash Kumar Men’s Kayak single 200M Uttar Pradesh
Pooja Ojha Women’s Kayak single 200M Madhya Pradesh
Para Cycling
Athlete Event State
Arshad Shaik Men’s C2 Ind. Time Trial

Men’s C1-3 Road race

Men’s C1-3 1000M Time trial

Men’s C2 3000M IND.Pursuit

 Andhra Pradesh
Jyoti Gaderia Women’s C1-3 IND time trial

Women’s C1-3 Road race

Women’s C1-3 500M Time trial

Women’s C1- 3000M IND. Pursuit

 Maharashtra

Blind Judo

Athlete Event State
Kapil Parmar Men’s 60 Kg Madhya Pradesh
Kokila Women’s 48 Kg Haryana

Para Powerlifting

Athlete Event State
Parmjeet Kumar Men’s upto 49 Kg Punjab
Ashok Men’s upto 65 Kg Haryana
Sakina Khatun Women’s upto 45 Kg Karnataka
Kasthuri Rajamani Women’s upto 67 Kg Tamil Nadu

Para Rowing

Athlete Event State
Narayana Konganapalle PR3 Mix doubles

Sculls-PR3 Mix 2X

 Andhra Pradesh
Anita PR3 Mix doubles

Sculls-PR3 Mix 2X

 Rajasthan

Para shooting

Athlete Event State
Ahmir Ahmad Bhat P3-M 25M Pistol Jammu and Kashmir
Rudransh Khandelwel P1- M 10M Air Pistol

P4-X 50M Pistol

 Rajasthan
Manish Narwal P1-M 10M Air Pistol Haryana
Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar R1- M 10M Air Rifle Maharashtra
Nihal Singh P3- X 25M Pistol

P4-X 50M Pistol

 Rajasthan
Siddhartha Babu R3-X 10M Air RFL PRN

R6-X 50M Rifle Prone

 Rajasthan
Sriharsha Devaraddi Ramakrishna R3-X 10M AIR RFL PRN

R6-X 50M Rifle Prone

 Karnataka
Avani Lekhara R2-W 10M AIR RFL STD

R3-X 10M AIR RFL PRN

R8-W 50M Rifle 3 POS

 Rajasthan
Mona Agarwal R2-W 10M AIR RFL STD

R6-X 50M Rifle Prone

R8-W 50M Rifle 3 POS.

 Rajasthan
Rubina Francis P2-W 10M AIR Pistol Madhya Pradesh
Para Swimming
Athlete Event State
Suyash Narayan Jadhav Men’s 50M butterfly Maharashtra

Para Table Tennis

Athlete Event State
Sonalben Patel Women’s singles

Women’s doubles

 Gujarat
Bhavinaben Patel Women’s singles

Women’s doubles

 Gujarat

Para Taekwondo

Athlete Event State
Aruna Women K44-47 Kg Haryana

The live telecast of the Paris Paralympics will be available on Sports18 while the live streaming will be there on JioCinema in India from August 28 to September 8, 2024.

India’s medals at Paralympics

Year Medals
1972 1
1984 4
2004 2
2012 1
2016 4
2020 19

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