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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 ...
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.
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.
Sakshi Kasana (born 21 August 1996) [1] is an Indian para athlete from Uttar Pradesh. She competes in the women's discus throw F55 category. She competes in the women's discus throw F55 category. She qualified to represent India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics at Paris .
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]
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 Summer Paralympics, the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, and also more generally known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, was a major international multi-sport event for the disabled governed by the International Paralympic Committee, taking place in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September. [1]
Due to concerns over a number of cities withdrawing in the bid process of the 2022 Winter Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics, a process to award the 2024 and 2028 Games simultaneously to the final two cities in the running to host the 2024 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles and Paris – was approved at an Extraordinary IOC Session on 11 July 2017 ...