Preethi, 23, bagged her second bronze within the 200m T35 class with a private finest time of 30.01 seconds, following her bronze within the 100m T35 class on Friday.
Nishad, 24, however, cleared 2.04 meters to win India’s third para-athletics medal and seventh general.
Preethi is simply the second Indian lady to win two medals in a single Paralympics, after Avani Lekhara’s gold and bronze in Tokyo three years in the past.
Within the ladies’s 200m T35 remaining, China’s Zhou Xia gained gold with 28.15 seconds, adopted by Guo Qianqian with 29.09 seconds for silver. The T35 classification is for athletes with coordination impairments like hypertonia, ataxia, and athetosis.
Nishad confronted a troublesome competitors within the excessive leap occasion towards world report holder and champion Townsend Roderick of the USA, who gained gold with 2.12 meters.
Margiev Georgii, representing Impartial Paralympic Athlete, was third with 2 meters.
Ram Pal, one other Indian within the competitors, secured seventh place with a private better of 1.95 meters. The T47 class consists of rivals with beneath elbow or wrist amputation or impairment.
Preethi, a farmer’s daughter from Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, captured India’s first observe medal in a Paralympics observe occasion on Friday along with her 100m T35 bronze clocking 14.21 seconds. Her journey to Paralympic success is outstanding, overcoming weak legs and irregular leg posture since beginning. She wore calipers for eight years from the age of 5 and underwent conventional remedies to strengthen her legs. At 17, her life began to vary when she watched the Paralympic Video games on social media and met Paralympic athlete Fatima Khatoon, who launched her to para-athletics.
Nishad’s dedication has outlined his profession. He misplaced his proper hand in a grass-cutting machine accident on the age of six. Impressed by his mom, a state-level volleyball participant and discus thrower, Nishad pursued sports activities passionately, beginning with wrestling and athletics earlier than specializing in javelin throw.
In 2017, he obtained skilled teaching and gained gold on the Asian Youth Para Video games. His success continued with a gold eventually yr’s Asian Para Video games and a silver medal on the 2024 World Para Athletics Championship in Japan.
On Friday, Ravi Rongali completed fifth within the males’s F40 shot put remaining. He produced a private better of 10.63 meters however discovered the competitors powerful in a top-class area.
World report holder Miguel Montero of Portugal took gold with a throw of 11.21 meters. Mongolia’s Battulga Tsegmid claimed silver with 11.09 meters.
Reigning Asian Para Video games champion Garrah Tnaiash of Iraq earned bronze with 11.03 meters. Denis Gnezdilov, the Tokyo Paralympics gold medallist, completed fourth with 10.80 meters.
Rakshita Raju, 23, bowed out within the opening spherical heats of the ladies’s 1500m T11 race, ending final in her warmth with 5:29.92 seconds.
China’s Shanshan He topped the warmth with 4:44.66 seconds, carefully adopted by South Africa’s Louzanne Coetzee with a season-best timing of 4:45.25 seconds. The T11 class caters to athletes with extreme visible impairment, typically working with guides.
Shuttlers Suhas, Murugesan guarantee badminton medals
Suhas Yathiraj positioned himself for unprecedented glory by reaching the summit conflict for a second consecutive time Paralympic medals within the males’s singles SL4 occasion.
Tokyo Video games silver medallist Suhas displayed distinctive ability by defeating teammate Sukant Kadam 21-17, 21-12 in straight video games.
The 41-year-old Suhas, who can also be a 2007 batch IAS officer, thus superior to his second consecutive remaining on the international stage.
Nitesh Kumar equally assured a medal by clinching a 21-16, 21-12 win towards Japan’s Daisuke Fujihara within the SL3 semifinal.
Within the all-Indian ladies’s singles SU5 semifinal, Thulasimathi Murugesan beat compatriot Manisha Ramadass 23-21, 21-17 to guarantee India no less than one other silver. Manisha will now struggle for bronze.
Nevertheless, there have been setbacks for India as properly. Within the SL3 class, Mandeep Kaur was eradicated within the quarterfinals after dropping to Nigeria’s third seed Bolaji Mariam Eniola, with scores of 8-21, 9-21.
The SL4 class noticed one other shut contest the place para world championship bronze medallist Palak Kohli fell brief towards Indonesia’s Khalimatus Sadiyah, dropping 19-21, 15-21 in 28 minutes.
In SL3 class, gamers with extreme lower-limb incapacity compete on a half-width court docket, whereas in SL4, athletes compete whereas standing with much less extreme impairments than these within the SL3 class.
Mandeep Kaur and Palak Kohli’s powerful quarterfinal losses highlighted the challenges confronted, but the triumphs of Suhas, Nitesh, and Manisha mark vital achievements for Indian para-badminton.
No success in capturing vary
After securing 4 medals in two days, India had a disappointing outing in capturing occasions on Sunday with Avani Lekhara failing to qualify for the finals, ending eleventh within the blended 10m air rifle inclined (SH1) qualification.
Sidhartha Babu additionally missed the mark, ending twenty eighth.
Avani, coming off her gold medal win within the 10m air rifle standing SH1 occasion, accomplished the qualification spherical with a complete rating of 632.8. Her sequence of scores was 105.7, 106.0, 104.1, 106.0, 104.8, and 106.2.
Sidhartha Babu, however, recorded scores of 104.6, 103.8, 105.7, 104.9, 103.6, and 105.7, aggregating to 628.3 throughout six sequence.
Within the SH1 class, athletes are in a position to maintain their gun with out help and shoot from both a standing or sitting place. Sidhartha contributed his scores on this classification. Devaraddi, competing within the SH2 class the place athletes use a stand to carry their rifle, scored 105.2 in Collection 1, improved to 105.7 within the subsequent, adopted by scores of 105.4, 104.3, 105.6, and 104.0, totaling 630.2 factors.
Solely the highest eight from qualification progress to the ultimate as per the competitors guidelines.
