India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

Sporting event delegation

India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

IPC code	IND
NPC	Paralympic Committee of India
Website	www.paralympic.org.in
in Paris, France August 28, 2024 (2024-08-28) – September 8, 2024 (2024-09-08)
Competitors	84 in 12 sports
Flag bearers	Bhagyashree Jadhav Sumit Antil
Medals Ranked 22nd	Gold 1 Silver 1 Bronze 3 Total 5
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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India is competing at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris from 28 August to 8 September 2024. The nation made its official debut at the 1968 Summer Paralympics and has appeared in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since 1984. This is India's 13th appearance at the Summer Paralympics.

India has previously won 31 medals across Paralympic Games with the most successful Paralympic campaign being the 2020 Tokyo edition with 19 medals including five gold, eight silver and six bronze medals.

India sent a contingent consisting of 84 athletes competing across 12 sports in the Paralympic Games. Athletes Bhagyashree Jadhav and Sumit Antil were the flag bearers during the opening ceremony.

Background

The Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) was formed in 1994, five years after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) was established in 1989.^[1] The ninth International Stoke Mandville Games was later designated as the first Paralympics in 1960. The International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation organized the Paralympic Games till 1984. The 1988 Seoul Paralympics was the first to use the Paralympics name and the event has been held in the same host city as the corresponding Summer Olympic Games since then.^[2]

The nation made its Paralympics debut in 1968 and have appeared in every edition of the Summer Paralympic Games since 1984. This edition of the Games marked the nation's 12th appearance at the Summer Paralympics.^[3] India had won 31 medals across Paralympic Games with the most successful Paralympic campaign being the 2020 Tokyo edition with 19 medals including five gold, eight silver and six bronze medals.^[4]^[5]

The Indian contingent for the games consisted of 84 people across 12 sports.^[6] Athletes Bhagyashree Jadhav and Sumit Antil were the flag bearers during the opening ceremony.^[7]

Medalists

India has won five medals with one gold, one silver, and three bronze medals.^[8] Avani Lekhara won a gold medal in shooting for the second consecutive Games and became the first Indian woman paralympic athlete to win back-to-back gold and multiple medals.^[9] Shooter Manish Narwal won a silver medal, his second medal after his gold medal in the 2020 Games.^[10] Mona Agarwal won a bronze medal in the same 10 m air rifle standing SH1 event in which Lekhara won gold. Preethi Pal won India's first athletics medal by clinching a bronze in the women's 100m T35 event. Rubina Francis won India's fourth medal in shooting and fifth overall with a bronze in the Women's 10 m air pistol SH1 event.^[8]

Medalists ^[8]
Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Avani Lekhara	Shooting	Women's R2 10 m air rifle standing SH1	30 August
Silver	Manish Narwal	Shooting	Men's P1 10 m air pistol SH1	30 August
Bronze	Mona Agarwal	Shooting	Women's R2 10 m air rifle standing SH1	30 August
Bronze	Preethi Pal	Athletics	Women's 100 m T35	30 August
Bronze	Rubina Francis	Shooting	Women's P2 10 metre air pistol SH1	31 August

Medals by sport
Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Shooting	1	1	2	4
Athletics	0	0	1	1
Badminton	0	0	0	0
Total	1	1	3	5

Medals by day
Day	Date	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	29 August	0	0	0	0
2	30 August	1	1	2	4
3	31 August	0	0	1	1
3	1 September	0	0	0	0
Total		1	1	3	5

Medals by gender
Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Male	0	1	0	1
Female	1	0	3	4
Total	1	1	3	5

Competitors

The Indian contingent consisted of 84 athletes who took part in 74 medal events across 12 sports.^[6]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	3	3	6
Athletics	28	10	38
Badminton	7	6	13
Cycling	1	1	2
Judo	1	1	2
Paracanoeing	1	2	3
Powerlifting	2	2	4
Rowing	1	1	2
Shooting	7	3	10
Swimming	1	0	1
Table tennis	0	2	2
Taekwondo	0	1	1
Total	52	32	84

Archery

India entered six athletes in compound and recurve events by virtue of their result at the 2023 World Para Archery Championships held in Plzeň, Czechia.^[11]

Compound

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Rakesh Kumar	Men's individual	696	5	Drame (SEN) W (136–131)	Swagumilang (INA)
Shyam Sundar Swami	Men's individual	688	15	Singpirom (THA) L (138–138) SO	Did not advance
Sheetal Devi	Women's individual	703	2	Bye	Zúñiga (CHI) L (137–138)	Did not advance
Sarita Adhana	Women's individual	682	9	Jannaton (MAS) W (138–124)	Sarti (ITA) W (141–135)	Cüre (TUR) L (140–145)	Did not advance
Sheetal Devi Rakesh Kumar	Mixed team	1399 WR	1	Bye

Recurve

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Harvinder Singh	Men's individual	637	9	Tseng (TPE)
Pooja Jatyan	Women's individual	585	7	Bye
Harvinder Singh Pooja Jatyan	Mixed team	1222	5	Kenton-Smith / Jennings (AUS)

Athletics

Indian athletes achieved quota places based on their results at the 2023 and 2024 World Para Athletics Championships, or through allocation quotas, provided they have met the minimum entry standard (MES) for the respective events. The athletics contingent consisted of 38 members including 10 women.^[12]^[13]

Track events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Preethi Pal	Women's 100 m T35	—		14.21
Preethi Pal	Women's 200 m T35
Simran Sharma	Women's 200 m T12
Deepthi Jeevanji	Women's 400 m T20
Dilip Gavit	Men's 400 m T47
Rakshitha Raju	Women's 1500 m T11	5:29.92	4	Did not advance

Field events - Men

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Dharambir Nain	Club throw F51
Pranav Soorma
Amit Kumar Saroha
Yogesh Kathuniya	Discus throw F56
Sharad Kumar	High jump T63
Maryiappan Thangavelu
Shailesh Kumar
Nishad Kumar	High jump T47
Rampal Chahar	High jump T47
Praveen Kumar	High jump T64
Navdeep Singh	Javelin throw F41
Ajeet Singh Yadav	Javelin throw F46
Rinku
Sundar Singh Gurjar
Dipesh Kumar	Javelin throw F54
Praveen Kumar	Javelin throw F57	42.12	8
Sandip Sanjay Sargar	Javelin throw F64
Sandeep Chaudhary
Sumit Antil
Arvind Malik	Shot put F35
Manu	Shot put F37	13.86	6
Ravi Rongali	Shot put F40	10.63	5
Sachin Sarjerao Khilari	Shot put F46
Mohd. Yasser
Rohit Kumar
Hokato Hotozhe Sema	Shot put F57
Soman Rana	Shot put F57

Field events - Women

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Kanchan Lakhani	Discus Throw F53
Sakshi Kasana	Discus throw F55	21.49	8
Karamjyoti Dalal	Discus throw F55	20.22	9
Bhavanaben Ajabaji Chaudhary	Javelin Throw F46
Bhagyashree Jadhav	Shot put F34
Amisha Rawat	Shot put F46

Legend

Note: Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser
DQ = Disqualified
PR = Paralympic Record
AR = Area (or continental) record
NR = National record
WR = World record
SB = Season's best

Badminton

India qualified ten para badminton players through the Badminton World Federation para-badminton Race to Paris Paralympic rankings.^[14]

Men

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Manoj Sarkar	Singles SL3	Nitesh (IND) L (13–21, 21–18, 18–21)	Bunsun (THA) L (19-21, 8-21)	Yang (CHN) W (21–15, 21–11)	3	—	Did not advance
Kumar Nitesh	Singles SL3	Sarkar (IND) W (21–13, 18–21, 21–18)	Yang (CHN) W (21–5, 21–11)	Bunsun (THA) W (21–13, 21–14)	1 Q	—	Fujihara (JPN)
Suhas Yathiraj	Singles SL4	Ramdani (INA) W (21–7, 21–5)	Shin (KOR) W (26–24, 21–14)	—	1 Q	—	Kadam (IND)
Sukant Kadam		Burhanuddin (MAS) W (17–21, 21–15, 22–20)	Teamarrom (THA) W (21–12, 21–12)		1 Q		Yathiraj (IND)
Tarun Dhillon		Oliveira (BRA) W (21–17, 21–19)	Mazur (FRA) L (7–21, 16–21)		2		Did not advance
Krishna Nagar	Singles SH6	Krajewski (USA) L (16–21, 18–21)	Meechai (THA) L (20–22, 3–11^r)	—	3	Did not advance
Sivarajan Solaimalai	Singles SH6	Subhan (INA) L (15–21, 17–21)	Kai (HKG) L (13–21, 21–18, 15–21)	Coombs (GBR) L (12–21, 10–21)	4	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Manasi Joshi	Singles SL3	Syakuroh (INA) L (21–16, 13–21, 18–21)	Kozyna (UKR) L (21–10, 15–21, 21–23)	—	3	Did not advance
Mandeep Kaur	Singles SL3	Bolaji (NGR) L (8–21, 14–21)	Vinot (AUS) W (21–23, 21–10, 21–17)	2 Q	Bolaji (NGR) L (8–21, 9–21)	Did not advance
Palak Kohli	Singles SL4	Surreau (FRA) W (21–12, 21–14)	Oktila (INA) L (21–18, 5–21, 13–21)	—	2 Q	Did not advance			Sadiyah (INA) L (19–21, 15–21)
Thulasimathi Murugesan	Singles SU5	de Marco (ITA) W (21–9, 21–11)	Monteiro (POR) W (21–12, 21–8)	—	1 Q	Bye	Ramadass (IND)
Manisha Ramadass	Singles SU5	Lefort (FRA) W (8–21, 21–6, 21–19)	Yang (CHN) L (15–21, 7–21)	2 Q	Toyoda (JPN) W (21–13, 21–16)	Murugesan (IND)
Nithya Sivan	Singles SH6	Simon (USA) W (21–7, 21–8)	Cai (TPE) W (21–12, 21–19)	Lin (CHN) L (20–22, 18–21)	2 Q	Szmigiel (POL) W (21–4, 21–7)	Lin (CHN)

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kumar Nitesh Thulasimathi Murugesan	Doubles SL3–SU5	Yathiraj / Kohli (IND) W (21–14, 21–17)	Ramdani / Oktila (INA) L (15–21, 8–21)	Mazur / Noël (FRA) L (22–24, 19–21)	3	Did not advance
Suhas Yathiraj Palak Kohli	Doubles SL3–SU5	Nitesh / Murugesan (IND) L (14–21, 17–21)	Mazur / Noël (FRA) L (15–21, 9–21)	Ramdani / Oktila (INA) L (11–21, 17–21)	4	Did not advance
Sivarajan Solaimalai Nithya Sivan	Doubles SH6	Krajewski / Simon (USA) L (21–23, 11–21)	Meechai / Saeyang (THA) W (21–7, 21–17)	—	1 Q	Krajewski / Simon (USA) L (21–17, 14–21, 13–21)	Subhan / Marlina (INA)

Legend: W = Win; L = Loss; Q = Qualified for the next phase

Cycling

India qualified two para-cyclists (one in each gender) based on the Union Cycliste Internationale rankings on 31 December 2022.^[15]^[6]

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Arshad Shaik	Men's road time trial C2
Arshad Shaik	Men's road race C1-3
Jyoti Gaderiya	Women's road time trial C1–3
Jyoti Gaderiya	Women's road race C1-3

Track

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Arshad Shaik	Men's time trial C1-3	1:21.416	17	Did not advance
Arshad Shaik	Men's pursuit C2	4:20.949	9
Jyoti Gaderiya	Women's time trial C1-3	49.233	11
Jyoti Gaderiya	Women's pursuit C1-3	4:53.929	10

Judo

India qualified for Judo for the first time after Kapil Parmar and Kokila Kaushiklate secured quota places based on the International Blind Sports Federation Judo Rankings.^[6]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition result	Opposition result	Opposition result	Opposition result	Opposition result	Opposition result	Rank
Kapil Parmar	Men's J1 -60 kg
Kokila Kaushiklate	Women's J2 -48 kg

Paracanoeing

India earned three quota places through the 2023 and 2024 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships conducted by the International Canoe Federation.^[6]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yash Kumar	Men's KL1
Pooja Ojha	Women's KL1
Prachi Yadav	Women's VL2

Powerlifting

Two men (Paramjeet Kumar and Ashok Malik) and two women (Sakina Khatun and Kasthuri Rajamani) secured their Paralympic berths through the Paralympic Qualification rankings after having completed the mandatory requirements of competing in certain tournaments.^[16]^[17]

Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Paramjeet Kumar	Men's -49 kg
Ashok	Men's -65 kg
Sakina Khatun	Women's -45 kg
Kasthuri Rajamani	Women's -67 kg

Rowing

India qualified one boat in mixed double sculls through the 2024 Asian / Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta held in Chungju, South Korea.^[18]^[6]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anita Narayana Konganapalle	PR3 mixed double sculls	8:06.84	5 R	7:54.33	3 FB	8:16.96	8

Legend: R = Repechage; FB = Final B (non-medal)

Shooting

India entered nine para shooters after achieving quota places through various qualifying events after they attained the minimum qualifying score (MQS) for the respective events by 15 July 2024.^[19]^[20]^[21] Rubina Francis and Swaroop Unhalkar received a bi-partite invitation from the International Paralympic Committee for the Games.^[6]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Rudransh Khandelwal	P1 10 m air pistol SH1	561	9	Did not advance
Manish Narwal	P1 10 m air pistol SH1	566	5 Q	234.9
Swaroop Unhalkar	R1 10 m air rifle standing SH1	613.4	14	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Avani Lekhara	R2 10 m air rifle SH1	625.8	2 Q	249.7 PR
Mona Agarwal	R2 10 m air rifle SH1	623.1	5 Q	228.7
Avani Lekhara	R8 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1
Mona Agarwal	R8 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1
Rubina Francis	P2 10 m air pistol SH1	556	6 Q	211.1

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Avani Lekhara	R3 10 m air rifle prone SH1	632.8	11	Did not advance
Sidhartha Babu	R3 10 m air rifle prone SH1	628.3	28
Sriharsha Davareddi	R4 10 m air rifle SH2	630.7	9
Sriharsha Davareddi	R5 10 m rifle prone SH2	630.2	26
Mona Agarwal	R6 50 m rifle Prone SH1
Sidhartha Babu	R6 50 m rifle Prone SH1
Nihal Singh	P3 25 m pistol SH1
Amir Bhat	P3 25 m pistol SH1
Nihal Singh	P4 50 m pistol SH1
Rudransh Khandelwal	P4 50 m pistol SH1

Legend: Q = Qualified for the next phase; PR = Paralympic Record

Swimming

India qualified one swimmer to compete at the games after Suyash Jadhav achieved the Minimum Qualification Standard (MQS) in the butterfly event.^[22]

Men

Athlete	Events	Heats		Final
Athlete	Events	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Suyash Jadhav	50 m butterfly S7

Table tennis

India entered two athletes for the Paralympic Games. Sonalben Patel and Bhavina Patel qualified through the International Table Tennis Federation World Rankings.^[6]^[23]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sonalben Patel	Women's individual C3	Mužinić (CRO)
Bhavina Patel	Women's individual C4	Verdín (MEX)
Sonalben Patel Bhavina Patel	Women's doubles D10	—	Jung / Moon (KOR) L 1–3	Did not advance

Legend: L = Lost

Taekwondo

Aruna Tanwar qualified for the event following her win in the 2024 Asian Qualification Tournament in Tai'an, China.^[24]

Athlete	Event	First round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Aruna Tanwar	Women's –47 kg	Ekinci (TUR) L 0–19	Did not advance

Legend: L = Lost

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