New Delhi: As the Tokyo Paralympics gets ready to kick off on Tuesday, India has set its eyes on its biggest ever contingent to bring back medals and glory to the nation.
India has sent a total of 54 para-athletes in 9 disciplines and this makes it biggest Olympic contingent ever.
More than 4,000 para-athletes would be competing in the world sporting event. India’s campaign will begin from August 25.
Meanwhile, as the opening ceremony of Paralympics begins today, lot many Indian sportspersons and celebrities have wished the Indian athletes good luck ahead of their bouts.
A look at India’s schedule & matches at Paralympics 2021:
August 25
Table Tennis
• Individual C3 – Sonalben Madhubhai Patel
• Individual C4 – Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel
August 27
Archery
• Men’s Recurve Individual Open – Harvinder Singh, Vivek Chikara
• Men’s Compound Individual Open – Rakesh Kumar, Shyam Sundar Swami
• Women’s Compound Individual Open – Jyoti Baliyan
• Compound Mixed Team Open – Jyoti Baliyan and TBC
Powerlifting
• Men’s 65kg – Jaideep Deswal
• Women’s 50kg – Sakina Khatun
Swimming
• 200 Individual Medley SM7 – Suyash Jadhav
August 28
Athletics
• Men’s Javelin Throw F57 – Ranjeet Bhati
August 29
Athletics
• Men’s Discus Throw F52 – Vinod Kumar
• Men’s High Jump T47 – Nishad Kumar, Ram Pal
August 30
Shooting
• Men’s R1 – 10 m air rifle standing SH1 – Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar, Deepak Saini
• Women’s R2 – 10 m air rifle SH1 – Avani Lekhara
Athletics
• Men’s Discus Throw F56 – Yogesh Kathuniya
• Men’s Javelin Throw F46 – Sundar Singh Gurjar, Ajeet Singh, Devendra Jhajharia
• Men’s Javelin Throw F64 – Sumit Antil, Sandeep Choudhary
August 31
Shooting
• Men’s P1 – 10 m air pistol SH1 – Manish Narwal, Deepender Singh, Singhraj
• Women’s P2 – 10 m air pistol SH1 – Rubina Francis
Athletics
• Men’s High Jump T63 – Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Varun Singh Bhati
• Women’s 100m T13 – Simran
• Women’s Shot Put F34 – Bhagyashri Madavrao Jadhav
September 1
Badminton
• Men’s Singles SL3 – Pramod Bhagat, Manoj Sarkar
• Women’s Singles SU5 – Palak Kohli
• Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 – Pramod Bhagat & Palak Kohli
Athletics
• Men’s Club Throw F51 – Dharambir Nain, Amit Kumar Saroha
September 2
Badminton
• Men’s Singles SL4 – Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj, Tarun Dhillon
• Men’s Singles SS6 – Krishna Nagar
• Women’s Singles SL4 – Parul Parmar
• Women’s Doubles SL3-SU5 – Parul Parmar and Palak Kohli
Para Canoeing
• Women’s VL2 – Prachi Yadav
Taekwondo
• Women’s K44 -49kg – Aruna Tanwar
Shooting
• Mixed P3 – 25 m pistol SH1 – Akash & Rahul Jakhar
Athletics
• Men’s Shot Put F35 – Arvind Malik
September 3
Swimming
• 50m Butterfly S7 – Suyash Jadhav, Niranjan Mukundan
Shooting
• Men’s R7 – 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 – Deepak Saini
• Women’s R8 – 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 – Avani Lekhara
Athletics
• Men’s High Jump T64 – Praveen Kumar
• Men’s Javelin Throw F54 – Tek Chand
• Men’s Shot Put F57 – Soman Rana
• Women’s Club Throw F51 – Ekta Bhyan, Kashish Lakra
September 4
Shooting
• Mixed R3 – 10 m air rifle prone SH1 – Deepak Saini, Sidhartha Babu & Avani Lekhara
• Mixed P4 – 50 m pistol SH1 – Akash, Manish Narwal and Singhraj
Athletics
• Men’s Javelin Throw F41 – Navdeep Singh
September 5
Shooting
• Mixed R6 – 50 m rifle prone SH1 – Deepak Saini, Avani Lekhara and Sidhartha Babu
