Almost all of them have a big chance of making it to the podium given that they all have world rankings and have brilliant Personal Best throws or performances. We take a look at all of them briefly. Devendra Jhajaria will be taking part in the F46 Javelin event. He won the gold at Rio and has a personal best throw of He has a SB and PB that is better than any other competitor in the field so it should be a clear podium finish and hopefully a gold medal for the veteran.
Sundar Singh Gurjar will be alongside him and he too will be looking for a podium finish. Sundar unfortunately missed out on competing in Rio and will be focused on putting the ghosts of the past aside. August 24, am Updated August 24, am. Here is everything you need to know about watching the Paralympics from the UK.
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It was their best-ever medal haul in the history of the Games same count as , but two gold medals , taking their overall tally to On August 30, , at the Tokyo Paralympics , India won five medals in a single day, improving their best ever count in the space of a few hours. The debutant duo of javelin thrower Sumit Antil and shooter Avani Lekhara shone the brightest with gold medals.
There was a silver each for veteran Devendra Jhajharia javelin and youngster Yogesh Kathuniya discus , along with a bronze for Sundar Singh Gurjar javelin , a redemption story from Rio. Also read: Devendra Jhajharia has his moment in the sun. It all started at After a slow in the qualification where her first two shots were below 10, she recovered well enough to reach the final.
Lekhara, who sustained spinal cord injuries in a car accident in , shot a world record equalling total of The year-old, appearing in her first Paralympics, gave India their first ever shooting medal of the Games. While world No 1 and reigning world campion Iryna Shchetnik of Ukraine took home the bronze medal.
Ranked fifth in the world, she consistently shot 10s in both the competition stages. Another Rio Paralympics medallist Deepa Malik, however, finished sixth in women's shot put F category with the best effort of 4. On the final day today, Jayanti Behera finished sixth in women's m T with a time of 1 minute and 3. In men's discus throw F final, Rohit Kumar missed out on a medal as he finished fourth with a best effort of
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