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Paris<\/strong>: India achieved its best-ever medal haul in the Paralympics, exceeding the last edition\u2019s number of podium finishes, thanks to a superlative performance by the country\u2019s track and field athletes in Paris on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Sharad Kumar\u2019s silver and Mariyappan Thangavelu\u2019s bronze in the men\u2019s high jump T63 event increased India\u2019s total to 20 medals, eclipsing the former record of 19 set in Tokyo three years prior.<\/p>\n To date, India has secured three gold, seven silver, and ten bronze medals in the French capital. The country concluded the Tokyo Games with five gold, eight silver, and six bronze medals.<\/p>\n Avani Lekhara and Sumit Antil successfully defended their gold medals in the women\u2019s 10m air rifle standing SH1 and men\u2019s javelin throw F64 events, respectively, while Nitesh Kumar clinched gold in the men\u2019s singles SL3 category in para-badminton.<\/p>\n In addition to Sharad, silver medals were won by Ajeet Singh in men\u2019s javelin throw F64, Yogesh Kathuniya in men\u2019s discus throw F56, Thulasimathi Murugesan in women\u2019s singles SU5 para-badminton, Manish Narwal in men\u2019s 10m air pistol SH1, Nishad Kumar in men\u2019s high jump T47, and Suhas Yathiraj in men\u2019s singles SL4 para badminton.<\/p>\n Besides Mariyappan, bronze medals have been claimed by Preethi Pal in women\u2019s 100m T35 and 200m T35, Mona Agarwal in women\u2019s 10m air rifle standing SH1, Rubina Francis in women\u2019s 10m air pistol SH1, Sundar Singh Gurjar in men\u2019s javelin throw F46, Deepthi Jeevanji in women\u2019s 400m T20, Manisha Ramadass in women\u2019s singles SU5 para-badminton, Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan in women\u2019s singles SH6 para-badminton, and the archery duo of Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar in the mixed team compound open.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Paris: India achieved its best-ever medal haul in the Paralympics, exceeding the last edition\u2019s number of podium finishes, thanks to a superlative performance by the country\u2019s track and field athletes in Paris on Tuesday. Sharad Kumar\u2019s silver and Mariyappan Thangavelu\u2019s bronze in the men\u2019s high jump T63 event increased India\u2019s total to 20 medals, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/download-1-22.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43664,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43663\/revisions\/43664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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