In Tokyo Paralympics,india come back home with 19 medals. In a single edition of the Paralympics india created history with 5 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 6 bronze medals, finishing inside the top 25 at the Para Games in the Japanese capital.
India beat his past record of 13 medals at the Summer Youth Olympic in 2018.The record tally 19 medals in Paralympics comes after the able-bodied athletes scripted history at the Tokyo Olympics, winning 7 medals, their best-ever tally at the Olympics.
A lot was expected of India’s largest contingent at the Paralympics — a 54 strong unit — and the para-athletes lived up to the hype, winning medals at will in Tokyo. India finished within the top 25 in the medal table at the Tokyo Paralympics.
India had won 12 medals in first ever Paralympics science 1968 to 2016 but the bar has been set high by the para-athletes as they return home with a staggering tally of 19 medals. In fact, India had only 19 athletes at the Rio Paralympics where they won 4 medals.
Bhavinaben Patel becoming the first Indian to win a table tennis medal at the Paralympics. Krishna Nagar won a historic gold in the men’s singles SH6 category and Suhas Yathiraj, an IAS officer, winning silver in the SL4 category.
