India had received 4 medals in a single version of the Paralympics earlier than 2016. They did that in 1984. However not one of the 4 medals in 1984 was gold. They'd received gold earlier than as effectively, in 1972 and 2004, however the complete medal rely was fewer. At Rio de Janeiro in 2016, India surpassed all expectations. They despatched 19 para-athletes (16 males, three girls). 4 of them received a medal every, all in athletics, propelling India to the forty third place on the factors tally. This stays
India’s greatest efficiency in a single version by far. India on the Paralympic Games Part 4, 2008 Beijing: No Medal for Indians.
In 2004, Devendra Jhajharia had set a world document to win the gold medal in Males’s Javelin Throw F44/46. He set a world document once more, in Javelin Throw F46, throwing 63.97m to win gold. Until date, Jhajharia is the one Indian to have received two gold medals on the Paralympics.
However Jhajharia received solely India’s second gold medal of the version. The primary went to Mariyappan Thangavelu, in Males’s T42 Excessive Leap. At 5, Mariyappan was strolling to highschool when he was run over by a bus. The half under his proper knee was completely broken. India on the Paralympic Games Part 5, 2012 London: Girisha Nagarajegowda Wins Silver Medal.
Mariyappan jumped 1.89m, his private greatest, to clinch gold. That was 3cm greater than Varun Singh Bhati, who set a brand new private greatest as effectively, profitable the bronze medal within the course of.
The fourth medal, a silver, went to Deepa Malik, who threw a private greatest distance of 4.61m within the Ladies’s F53 Shot Put. She grew to become the primary Indian lady to win a medal on the Paralympics. Two years later, she would win gold on the F53/54 Javelin within the Dubai Grand Prix. Her quite a few achievements embody a 1,700 km drive together with a 5,500 m climb in sub-zero temperature – in simply eight days, and tenth place in backstroke within the 2008 World Swimming Championship in Berlin.
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