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India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics; IPC code: IND: NPC: Paralympic Committee of India: Website: Paralympic India: in Paris, France August 28, 2024 () – September 8, 2024 () Competitors: 84 in 12 sports: Flag bearers (opening) Bhagyashree Jadhav Sumit Antil: Flag bearers (closing) Preethi Pal Harvinder Singh: Medals Ranked 18th: Gold 7 ...
India's first medal in the Paralympics came in the 1972 Games, with Murlikant Petkar winning a gold medal in swimming. Up to the recent 2024 Games, India have won 60 medals across all Paralympic Games, with the most successful Paralympic campaign being the Paris 2024 Games with 29 medals including seven gold, nine silver and thirteen bronze.
Preethi Pal (born 22 September 2000) [2] is an Indian para athlete. [3] She won two bronze medals at the 2024 Paris Paralympics in the women's 100m and 200m T35 race events and created history by becoming the first Indian woman to win two medals in track and field events at Paralympic Games.
The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. There were 549 medal events. Mauritius, Nepal and the Refugee Paralympic Team won their first Paralympic medals.
Amisha Rawat (20 May 2003) is an Indian para athlete from Uttarakhand. [1] She competes in the shot put F46 category. She qualified to represent India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics at Paris. [2] [3] [4]
The designs of the medals for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 8 February 2024; [10] as with the Olympic medals, the front of the Paralympic medals features an embedded original piece of scrap iron from the Eiffel Tower in the shape of a hexagon, engraved with the Paris 2024 emblem.
Mona Agarwal (born 8 November 1987) [1] is an Indian para shooter from Rajasthan. She competes in women's 10m air rifle SH1 category. She qualified to represent India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics at Paris. [2] She won a quota place for the Paris Paralympics winning gold at the WSPS Para Shooting World Cup at New Delhi in March 2024. [3]
Sheetal Devi (born 10 January 2007) is an Indian para-archer. She won a bronze medal in the mixed team compound event at the 2024 Paralympics, becoming the youngest Indian Paralympian medalist. She won two gold medals and one silver at the 2022 Asian Para Games.