Asian Para Video games Day 3: Medal rush continues for India; medal tally stands at 34

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Asian Para Video games Day 3: Medal rush continued to pour in for India with Nitesh Kumar, Thulasimathi Murugesan gained a bronze medal in Badminton Blended Doubles SL3-SU5. With this India’s Asian Para Video games 2023 medal tally stands at 34 medals – 9 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze. India additionally stands on the highest 5 checklist of nations within the Para Video games after China, Iran, Japan, Uzbekistan.

This yr, India has despatched 303 athletes : 191 males and 112 ladies to the fourth version of the Asian Para Video games making it the nation’s largest contingent to the continental occasion.

Earlier, the dynamic duo of our Para Shuttlers Pramod Bhagat and Manisha Ramadass additionally secured Bronze for India on the Asian Para Video games 2022.

India’s Narayan Thakur gained a bronze medal within the males’s 200m-T35 closing on Day 3 of the continuing 4th Asian Para Video games on Wednesday. Thakur clocked a timing of 29.83s to accept a bronze medal, ending nicely behind the highest two athletes.

Iran’s Alireza Zare broke the Asian Para Video games document with a timing of 25.51s besting the earlier document of Saudi Arabia’s Ahmed Adawi (30.39s). Iraq’s Idrees AL-Zaidi claimed the second spot with a private finest timing of 26.54s.

In the meantime, Shreyansh Trivedi clinched the bronze medal within the T-37 200m occasion with a time of 25.26s. Indonesia’s Saptoyogo bagged the gold medal with an Asian Para Video games document timing of 23.34s. Saudi Arabia’s Ali Yousef settled for a silver medal together with his private finest timing of 24.75s.

Earlier within the day, Sumit Antil and Pushpendra Singh dominated the rostrum standings by clinching gold and bronze medals respectively within the males’s Javelin Throw-F64 closing.

Sumit broke the Asian Para Video games document, World document and Asian document within the occasion with a throw of 73.29m. He reached the mark in his third try of the day and clinched a gold medal.

Sri Lanka’s Arachchige Samitha bagged the silver medal with an try of 62.42m whereas Pushpendra Singh settled for silver with a throw of 62.06m.

Paddler Bhavina Patel walked away with a bronze medal within the ladies’s singles – Class 4 semifinals and added to India’s consistently rising medal tally.

This time India has despatched 303 athletes – 191 males and 112 ladies – to the fourth version of the Asian Para Video games which is the biggest contingent to the continental occasion.

On the 2018 Asian Para Video games, India despatched a complete of 190 athletes and returned with 72 medals, together with 15 gold, for his or her finest efficiency on the quadrennial occasion.

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