Paralympics 2021 medal table, Paralympics: Indian athletes create history, double medal tally in Paralympics – Silver in high jump for Mariyappan Thangavelu in Tokyo Paralympics, bronze for Sharad Kumar

Paralympics 2021 medal table, Paralympics: Indian athletes create history, double medal tally in Paralympics - Silver in high jump for Mariyappan Thangavelu in Tokyo Paralympics, bronze for Sharad Kumar

Tokyo: India has created history in the ongoing Paralympic 2020 Games in Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Rio 2016 champions Mariyappan Thangavelu and Sharad Kumar took India’s medal tally to 10 with a silver and bronze medal in the men’s high jump T42 event yesterday. This is India’s best performance in Paralympics. Earlier, India had won the most medals in 1984 and 2016 with 4 medals.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated both Thangavelu and Shadar Kumar. Thangavelu won the silver with a time of 1.86m while Kumar took the bronze with a time of 1.83m. Varun Singh Bhati was also India’s third player in the tournament. But he finished seventh. Varun jumped 1.77 meters. Varun won a bronze medal at the 2016 Paralympics.

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This is Mariyappan Thangavelu’s second medal. Prior to this, he had won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

India is now 33rd in the Tokyo Paralympic medal tally. India has won 2 Gold, 5 Silver and 3 Bronze. China is at the top with 62 gold, 39 silver and 32 bronze medals. Great Britain is second with 29 gold and Russia is third with 26 gold.

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Medal winners of India in Paralympics

Bhavinaben Patel (Table Tennis) – Silver
Nishad Kumar (Long Jump) – Silver
Avani Lekhara (Shooting) – Gold
Sumeet Antil (Spear) – Gold
Devendra Jhajdia (Spear) – Silver
Yogesh Kathunia (Diablo) – Silver
Sunder Singh Gurjar (Spear) – Bronze
Sinharaj (Shooting) – Bronze
Mariyappan Thangavelu (High Jump) – Silver
Sharad Kumar (High Jump) – Bronze

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