Para Asian Games: Simran blazes to 200-m record, Nishad soars to high-jump gold

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Sheetal Devi and Swati Chaudhary reach their respective archery finals as para badminton players advance to semifinals

Chandigarh: Simran Sharma won gold in the women’s 200m T12 with a Games-record time of 24.80 seconds at the Para Asian Games. Nishad Kumar defended his title in the men’s high jump T47, clearing 2.04 metres to set a Games record and claim his second gold of the competition.

Pranav Soorma secured gold in the men’s discus throw F51/52/53 with an Asian-record effort of 11.66 metres. Ram Ratan Singh won silver in the same event.

Devender Kumar claimed gold in the men’s discus throw F43/44/F62/64 with a throw of 49.71 metres. Rakesh secured silver with 49.35 metres, while Pradeep Kumar was listed as the bronze medallist.

India also won two medals in the men’s javelin throw F53/54, with Pradeep Kumar taking silver and Ayush Verma bronze.

In para shooting, Manish Narwal won silver in the men’s 10m air pistol SH1, securing a quota place for the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games. Shrishti Arora added bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol SH1.

Ashok Malik took silver in the men’s 65kg para powerlifting event with a lift of 192kg.

In para-archery, Sheetal Devi defeated Japan’s Aya Shinohara 145-137 in the women’s compound open semifinals to reach the final. Swati Chaudhary also advanced to the W1 final after beating South Korea’s Lee Eunhee 6-2. Harvinder Singh exited the recurve competition after losing to China’s Yun Duo.

In para badminton, Pramod Bhagat beat Japan’s Daisuke Fujihara 21-12, 21-10, while Nitesh Kumar defeated Umesh Kumar 21-8, 21-8 in 23 minutes. Both advanced to the men’s singles SL3 semifinals.

India stood sixth in the table standings with its medal count of thirty five including nine gold, eleven silver and fifteen bronze medals, as end of day 2

India’s schedule for October 21

Para Archery

• 5:30 am IST onwards: Women’s compound doubles medal matches, featuring Sheetal Devi and Payal Nag against China in the final.
• 6:20 am: Men’s compound doubles medal matches.
• 9:10 am: Men’s W1 doubles medal matches.
• 10:00 am: Women’s W1 doubles medal matches.
• 11:25 am: W1 mixed team semifinals and medal matches.

Para Badminton

• 5:30 am: Mixed doubles SL3-SU5 semifinals, featuring Pramod Bhagat and Manisha Ramadass.
• 7:30 am: Men’s singles SL3 semifinal featuring Nitesh Kumar.
• 8:10 am: Men’s singles SL3 semifinal featuring Pramod Bhagat.
• 9:30 am: Men’s singles SL4 semifinal featuring Suhas Yathiraj.
• 10:50 am: Men’s singles SU5/SH6 knockout matches featuring Krishna Nagar and Hardik Makkar.

Para Athletics

• 5:40 am: Men’s javelin throw F53/F54 final.
• 5:45 am: Men’s long jump T37/T38 final.
• 6:30 am: Men’s shot put F11 final.
• 6:53 am and 8:10 am: Women’s 100m and 200m heats/finals across T12, T35 and T38 categories.
• 12:00 pm onwards: Men’s javelin F46/F64 final, featuring Sumit Antil.

Para Swimming and other events

• 7:05 am–7:40 am: Men’s and women’s swimming heats in the 400m freestyle and 50m butterfly.
• 8:30 am: Men’s para powerlifting middleweight finals, up to 72kg.
• 11:30 am: India vs Thailand in the men’s blind football group stage.
• 12:30 pm onwards: Para swimming finals.