Indian para-athletes created a new benchmark by winning 19 medals, including five gold, eight silver and six bronze, making Tokyo Paralympics 2020 country’s best ever campaign by finishing 24th in the overall tally.
The remarkable campaign totalled India’s medal to 31, including nine gold, 12 silver and 10 bronze.
India started its Paralympics journey in 1960 and have competed in 11 editions till date. The Tokyo 2020 turned out to be the best-ever edition for the country.
The Indian team flagged off its Tokyo Paralympics campaign with 54 athletes across nine para sports including – Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Canoeing, Shooting, Swimming, Powerlifting, Table Tennis and Taekwondo.
Indian Athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics
- Harvinder Singh, archery, recurve men’s open individual
- Vivek Chikara, archery, recurve men’s open individual
- Rakesh Kumar, archery, compound men’s open individual/ mixed
- Shyam Sundar Swami, archery, compound, men’s open individual/ mixed
- Jyoti Balyan, archery, compound women’s open individual/ mixed
- Amit Kumar Saroha, athletics, men’s club throw F51
- Dharambir Nain, athletics, men’s club throw F51
- Vinod Kumar, athletics, men’s discus throw F52
- Yogesh Kathuniya, athletics, men’s discus throw F56
- Nishad Kumar, athletics, men’s high jump T47
- Ram Pal, athletics, men’s high jump T47
- Mariyappan Thangavelu, athletics, men’s high jump T63
- Sharad Kumar, athletics, men’s high jump T63
- Varun Singh Bhati, athletics, men’s high jump T63
- Praveen Kumar, athletics, men’s high jump T64
- Navdeep Singh, athletics, men’s javelin throw F41
- Sundar Singh Gurjar, athletics, men’s javelin throw F46
- Ajeet Singh, athletics, men’s javelin throw F46
- Devendra Jhajharia, athletics, men’s javelin throw F46
- Tek Chand, athletics, men’s javelin throw F54
- Ranjeet Bhati, athletics, men’s javelin throw F57
- Sandeep Choudhary, athletics, men’s javelin throw F64
- Sumit Antil, athletics, men’s javelin throw F64
- Arvind Malik, athletics, men’s shot put F35
- Soman Rana, athletics, men’s shot put F57
- Simran Sharma, athletics, women’s 100m T13
- Kashish Lakra, athletics, women’s club throw F51
- Ekta Bhyan, athletics, women’s club throw F51
- Bhagyashri Jadhav, athletics, women’s shot put F34
- Pramod Bhagat, badminton, men’s singles SL3 and mixed doubles SL3-SU5
- Manoj Sarkar, badminton, men’s singles SL3
- Tarun Dhillon, badminton, men’s singles SL4
- Suhas Yathiraj, badminton, men’s singles SL4
- Krishna Nagar, badminton, men’s singles SL4
- Parul Parmar, badminton, women’s singles SL4
- Palak Kohli, badminton, women’s singles, SU5 and mixed doubles SL3-SU5
- Prachi Yadav, para canoeing, women’s 200m VL2
- Jaideep Deswal, powerlifting, men’s 65kg
- Sakina Khatun, powerlifting, women’s 50kg
- Akash, shooting, men’s 25m pistol (P3) and 50m pistol (P4)
- Manish Narwal, shooting, men’s 10m air pistol (P1) and men’s 50m pistol (P4)
- Deepender Singh, shooting, men’s 10m air pistol (P1)
- Rahul Jakhar, shooting, men’s 25m pistol mixed (P3)
- Singhraj, shooting, men’s P1 – 10m air pistol (P1) and men’s 50m Pistol (P4)
- Sidhartha Babu, shooting, 10m air rifle prone mixed (R3) and 50m rifle prone mixed (R6)
- Swaroop Unhalkar, shooting, men’s 10m air rifle standing (R1)
- Deepak Saini, shooting, men’s 10m air rifle standing (R1), 10m air rifle prone mixed (R3), 50m rifle prone mixed (R6) and 50m rifle 3P (R7).
- Rubina Francis, shooting, women’s 10m air pistol (P2)
- Avani Lekhara, shooting, women’s 10m air rifle standing (R2), 10m air rifle prone mixed (R3), 50m rifle prone mixed (R6) and 50m rifle 3-P (R8)
- Niranjan Mukundan, swimming, men’s 50m butterfly S7
- Suyash Jadhav, swimming, men’s 50m butterfly S7 and 200m individual medley SM7
- Sonalben Patel, table tennis, women’s singles – Class 3
- Bhavina Patel, table tennis, women’s singles – Class 4
- Aruna Tanwar, taekwondo, women’s K44-49 kg
Indian Paralympics Medal Winners
Bronze Medal – Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Shooting SH1
