Indian Paralympic Contingent Outperforms by Winning a Total of 29 Medals

Lovish Chauhan

North News

Chandigarh, September 9

The Paris Paralympics 2024 came to an end on September 8, marking the end of the remarkable performances of thousands of athletes from over 100 countries in over 22 sports. India sent its biggest ever contingent at the 2024 Paralympics Games, with 84 athletes participating across 12 sports.

This increase in the contingent was reflected in India’s performance, as it delivered the best performance ever. India won a total of 29 medals, of which 7 were gold, 9 were silver and 13 were bronze. Here is a list of winners who won

Gold:

• Avani Lekhara
• Kumar Nitesh
• Sumit Antil
• Harvinder Singh
• Dharambir Nain
• Praveen Kumar
• Navdeep Singh

Silver:

• Manish Narwal
• Nishad Kumar
• Yogesh Kathuniya
• Thulasimathi Murugesan
• Suhas Yathiraj
• Ajeet Singh Yadav
• Sharad Kumar
• Sachin Khilari
• Pranav Soorma 

Bronze:

• Preethi Pal     
• Mona Agarwal
• Rubina Francis
• Manisha Ramadass   
• Nithya Sre Sivan         
• Sheetal Devi
• Rakesh Kumar
• Deepthi Jeevanji        
• Simran Sharma          
• Hokato Hotozhe Sema          
• Sundar Singh Gurjar  
• Mariyappan Thangavelu       
• Kapil Parmar  

This was a jump over India’s performance at the Tokyo Paris Olympics where they won a total of 19 medal, of which 5 were gold, 8 were silver and 6 were bronze.