After a scintillating display on Monday when India's Para contingent reduced the all-time medals-won-on-a-day record by securing eight at the Paris Paralympics, they showcased yet another remarkable display and clinched five medals to create a new all-time record for the most number of medals won in a single edition of the Paralympics.
India now has 20 medals in their kitty - one more than their previous all-time highest-ever collection which came at the Tokyo Paralympics.
All of India's five medals on Tuesday came in athletics. Deepthi Jeevanji led India's charge on Tuesday and won bronze in the women's 400m T20 category.
Sharad Kumar claimed a silver in the men's high jump T63 category and his compatriot Mariyappan Thangavelu also won bronze in the same category. India's fourth and fifth medal of the day came in the men's javelin throw F46 category as Ajeet Singh and Sundar Singh Gurjar claimed silver and bronze respectively.
There is much to look forward to as India will eye several medals in the para-cycling, para-athletics and para-archery categories on September 4.
India's schedule for Day 7 (September 4) at Paris Paralympics 2024:
- 11:57 AM - Para Cycling Road - Men’s C2 Individual Time Trial - Arshad Shaik
- 12:32 PM - Para Cycling Road - Women’s C1-3 Individual Time Trial - Jyoti Gaderiya
- 1:00 PM - Para Shooting - P4 - Mixed 50m Pistol SH1 Qualification - Nihal Singh, Rudransh Khandelwal
- 1:35 PM - Para Athletics - Men’s Shot Put - F46 Final - Sachin Sarjerao Khilari, Mohd Yasser, Rohit Kumar
- 2:15 PM - Para Table Tennis - Women’s Singles - WS4 - Quarterfinal - Bhavinaben Patel vs Zhou Ying (CHN)
- 3:17 PM - Para Athletics - Women’s Shot Put - F46 Final - Amisha Rawat
- 3:30 PM - Powerlifting - Men’s up to 49kg Final - Parmjeet Kumar
- 3:45 PM - Para Shooting - P4 - Mixed 50m Pistol SH1 Final - Nihal Singh, Rudransh Khandelwal (Subject to qualification)
- 5:49 PM - Para Archery - Men’s Individual Recurve Open 1/16 Elimination - Harvinder Singh vs Tseng Lung-Hui (TPE)
- 6:40 PM - Para Archery - Men’s Individual Recurve Open 1/8 Elimination - Harvinder Singh (Subject to qualification)
- 8:30 PM - Powerlifting - Women’s up to 45kg Final - Sakina Khatun
- 9:00 PM onwards - Para Archery - Men’s Individual Recurve Open Quarterfinals - Harvinder Singh (Subject to qualification)
- 10:08 PM onwards - Para Archery - Men’s Individual Recurve Open Semifinals - Harvinder Singh (Subject to qualification)
- 10:50 PM - Para Athletics - Men’s Club Throw - F51 Final - Dharambir, Pranav Soorma, Amit Kumar
- 10:57 PM onwards - Para Archery - Men’s Individual Recurve Open Medal Rounds - Harvinder Singh (Subject to qualification)
- 11:03 PM - Para Athletics - Women’s 100m - T12 Round 1 - Simran
- 11:14 PM - Para Archery - Men's Individual Recurve Open Gold Medal Match - Harvinder Singh
