Indian para athletes win a sensational 17 medals including 7 golds on the first two days of the Asian para games in Nagoya.
Indian para athletes have been on the rise since the 2016 Paralympics and the 2018 Para Asian Games. At the center of this rise is the phenomenal depth that indian para athletes have achieved over the last decade. In just two days of action the Indian athletes have won 17 medals in para athletics including 7 golds 5 silver and 5 bronze.
The dominance came to the fore when India’s discus throwers in F43/47/62/64 swept all three medals, with Devender Kumar bagging gold with 49.71 m, Rakesh the silver, and Pradeep the bronze. In the men’s discus F51 category, Pranav Soorma set a new Asian Games record with 16.66 m, and Ram Rattan Singh won silver. Versatile Nishad Kumar and experienced high jumper won his favorite high jump in the T47 category without a single blemish, with a 2.04 m Games record, and made a golden debut in the long jump too in the same category, winning with a leap of 7.11 m .
Deepthi Jeevanji won the women’s T20 category, setting a Games record in the heats and further improving it in the final with a 56.36. Simran Sharma in the women’s T12 category and Rinku in the F46 men’s javelin were the other two to strike gold for India. Indian athletes have three more days to swell their tally and are aiming for a record haul.
