Top Indian medal contenders at Tokyo Paralympic Games
The Indian Paralympics contingent is ready to return from Tokyo with a document medal haul, predicted Deepak Malik, the primary lady from India to win a Paralympic medal, a day forward of the start of the Paralympic Games on Tuesday. India are fielding their greatest ever contingent at these Games. 54 athletes are set to compete in 9 sports activities — archery, athletics, badminton, canoeing, capturing, swimming, powerlifting, desk tennis and taekwondo.
Badminton
One of the largest hopes from the Indian contingent is in para-badminton, which will probably be making its debut on the Tokyo Games. Pramod Bhagat, world No. 1 within the SL3 class (gamers with impairment in a single/each legs and poor strolling/working stability), is probably the most reputed participant for India. At the 2019 Para World Championships, he had received two golds.
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Krishna Nagar and Tarun Dhillon are additionally each ranked No. 2 within the SH6 (gamers with a brief stature) and SL4 (impairment in a single/each legs and minimal impairment in strolling/working stability) classes respectively.
Shooting
There are 10 shooters in India’s capturing contingent on the Paralympic Games. The brightest hope amongst them is 19-year-old Manish Narwal (SH1 – higher and/or decrease limb impairment) within the males’s 10m air pistol occasion.
Athletics
Devendra Jhajharia, a number one contender to be India’s best ever Paralympian, is ready to guide the Athletics contingent another time in Tokyo. The 40-year-old two-time Paralympic gold medallist (2004 & 2016) in javelin throw is the one Indian with two gold medals on the Paralympics. What means that he is likely to be within the working for a 3rd medal within the F46 class (for athletes with unilateral higher limb impairment) is that on the choice trials in July this 12 months, Jhajharia breached his personal world document with a throw of 65.71.
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In the F64 occasion (for decrease limb impairment) two sturdy Indian medal hopefuls are Sandeep Chaudhary and Sumit Antil.
Rio hero Mariyappan Thangavelu, the excessive jumper from Tamil Nadu, is one other sturdy contender within the T63 occasion (for athletes utilizing prosthesis above the knee amputation). Rio bronze medalist Varun Singh Bhati and Asian Para Games double medalist Sharad Kumar are two different sturdy contenders in the identical class.
