Para badminton player Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj on Sunday dedicated the silver medal he won at the Tokyo Paralympic Games in SL4 class to his late father.
Indian shuttler-cum-bureaucrat Suhas Yathiraj was left with mixed feelings on Sunday after he ended his Paralympic campaign with a silver medal.
The Indian mixed doubles duo lost 21-23 19-21 to their Japanese opponents in the SL3-SU5 class final that lasted 37 minutes to end their campaign at fourth place.
Congratulating Suhas Yathiraj, an IAS officer who won a silver medal at the Paralympics, the PM described him as a fantastic confluence of service.
The 22-year-old para-shuttler from Rajasthan defeated his 30-year-old Hong Kong rival 21-17, 16-21, 21-17 in the summit clash that lasted for a duration of 44 minutes.
No Indian shooter could make the finals of the mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 event of the Paralympics with newly-discovered star Avani Lekhara ending 28th in the qualification.
Para-shuttler Suhas Yathiraj settled for a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics after losing the gold medal match of the badminton SL4 category to top seed Lucas Mazur 21-15, 17-21, 15-21.
Even if he loses and wins a silver, the 38-year-old district magistrate of Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida) will have scripted history as the first-ever IAS officer to win a medal at the Paralympics.
Explaining the reason for not seeing her husband in action in the last six years, Ritu said that she feels nervous thinking what could be the result, as her husband gets completely involved in the game.
India had won just four medals in the last edition in Rio while the total count from the 1972 edition when the country competed for the first time till these Tokyo Games was 12.
The 19-year-old trailblazer Lekhara had won a gold in R-2 women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event on Monday before claiming the 50m Rifle 3 Position SH1 bronze on Friday.
Reigning world champion Bhagat beat Bethell 21-14 21-17 in the summit clash. Another Indian, Manoj Kumar won the bronze after beating Daisuke Fujihara in the third place play-off.
On Saturday, Narwal also obliterated the lone anomaly between them -- a gold medal at the Olympics -- by winning gold in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
While Adana took the silver, the gold went to 19-year-old Manish Narwal as the two shooters made it a sensational one-two finish for the country in the event.
Pramod Bhagat won the gold medal in the badminton singles SL3 event, beating Great Britain's Daniel Bethell in the final.
Krishna Nagar has entered the final of badminton singles SH6, making him the third Indian in fray for a gold medal in the sport at Tokyo Paralympics.
Manish Narwal won gold medal in the shooting mixed 50m pistol SH1 event, while Singhraj claimed a silver medal.
Suhas Yathiraj defeated Fredy Setiawan in straight-games to book a berth in the final of badminton singles SL4.
The 33-year-old Bhagat, who is also the world no 1 and current Asian champion, secured a 21-11 21-16 win over Japan's Daisuke Fujihara in the first SL3 class semifinals that lasted 36 minutes.
Harvinder had to shoot a nine or a 10 to win the match and the 30-year-old Ph.D. student from Punjabi University, Patiala, shot a 10 to win the shoot-off and bronze medal.
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