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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.
Team Competitor(s) Team; Archery: Women's individual recurve open: Wu Chunyan China: Wu Yang China: Elisabetta Mijno Italy [233] Athletics: Women's 100 metres T11: Jerusa Geber dos Santos Brazil: Liu Cuiqing China: Lorena Salvatini Spoladore Brazil [234] Women's 100 metres T13: Lamiya Valiyeva Azerbaijan: WR: Rayane Soares da Silva Brazil: Orla ...
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.
On 3 September 2021, she became the first Indian female Paralympian to win two medals in Paralympics history after claiming bronze in women's 50m air rifle standing event. [17] [18] In Paralympics 2024 at Paris, she won a gold in women's 10m air rifle standing SH1. She became the first Indian women athlete to win three paralympic medals. [19]
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.
The Indian field hockey team won the lone medal, a gold, which was the first medal for India as an independent nation. [23] The 1952 Summer Olympics marked the first time India sent women competitors to the Games. [24] The Indian contingent consisted of 64 competitors including four women with first time participants in gymnastics and shooting ...