84 para athletes from India at the ongoing Paris 2024 Paralympics being held in the French capital from August 28 to September 8.

India are competing across 12 disciplines at the Paris 2024 Paralympics Games, three more than Tokyo 2020. This time Indian para athletes are also taking part in three major new sports – para cycling, para rowing and blind judo – at Paris 2024.

Avani Lekhara became the first Indian woman to win two gold medals at the Paralympic Games, defending her title in the women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 shooting event and set the  world record score. With Mona Agarwal winning bronze, it was also the first time India had a double podium finish in a single event at the Paralympic Games.

India recorded a one-two in athletics for the first time, with Dharambir and Parnav Soorma clinching gold and silver, respectively, in the men’s club throw F51 event. Dharambir also set a new Asian record of 34.92m.

Armless archer Sheetal Devi, meanwhile, briefly set a world record in the ranking round before finishing in second place. Later, she teamed up with Rakesh Kumar to achieve a world record score in the compound mixed team qualification event. At just 17 years old, Sheetal went on to make history as India’s youngest Paralympic medallist, securing bronze in the mixed team event alongside Rakesh.

In archery, India found their first-ever Paralympic champion in Harvinder Singh.

With a bronze in the high jump T42 class, Mariyappan Thangavelu became the first Indian to win medals at three consecutive Paralympics. He won the gold medal at Rio 2016 and silver at Tokyo 2020.

Preethi Pal secured her bronze in the women’s 100m T35 race. Deepthi Jeevanji too made history at Paris 2024 by becoming the first intellectually impaired Indian athlete to win a Paralympic medal with a bronze in the women’s 400m T20 class.

India have won 24 medals – five golds, nine silvers and 10 bronze – at the Paris 2024 Paralympics so far.

Indian medal winners at Paris 2024 Paralympics
No.	Athlete	Sport	Event	Medal
1	Avani Lekhara	Shooting	Women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1	Gold
2	Mona Agarwal	Shooting	Women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1	Bronze
3	Preethi Pal	Athletics	Women’s 100m T35	Bronze
4	Manish Narwal	Shooting	Men’s 10m air pistol SH1	Silver
5	Rubina Francis	Shooting	Women’s 10m Air Pistol SH1	Bronze
6	Preethi Pal	Athletics	Women’s 200m T35	Bronze
7	Nishad Kumar	Athletics	Men’s high jump T47	Silver
8	Yogesh Kathuniya	Athletics	Men’s discus throw F56	Silver
9	Nitesh Kumar	Badminton	Men’s singles SL3	Gold
10	Thulasimathi Murugesan	Badminton	Women’s singles SU5	Silver
11	Manisha Ramadass	Badminton	Women’s singles SU5	Bronze
12	Suhas Yathiraj	Badminton	Men’s singles SL4	Silver
13	Rakesh Kumar / Sheetal Devi	Archery	Mixed team compound open	Bronze
14	Sumit Antil	Athletics	Javelin throw F64	Gold
15	Nithya Sre Sivan	Badminton	Women’s singles SH6	Bronze
16	Deepthi Jeevanji	Athletics	Women’s 400m T20	Bronze
17	Mariyappan Thangavelu	Athletics	Men’s high jump T63	Bronze
18	Sharad Kumar	Athletics	Men’s high jump T63	Silver
19	Ajeet Singh	Athletics	Men’s javelin throw F46	Silver
20	Sundar Singh Gurjar	Athletics	Men’s javelin throw F46	Bronze
21	Sachin Khilari	Athletics	Men’s shot put F46	Silver
22	Harvinder Singh	Archery	Men’s individual recurve open	Gold
23	Dharambir	Athletics	Men’s club throw F51	Gold
24	Parnav Soorma	Athletics	Men’s club throw F51	Silver

Paris 2024 Paralympics — Medals Tally (Top Countries and India total medal counts)

 

Rank	Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	62	46	27	135
2	Great Britain	33	25	16	74
3	United States	25	26	12	63
4	Netherlands	16	7	5	28
5	France	15	17	18	50
6	Brazil	15	15	27	57
7	Ukraine	13	18	21	52
8	Italy	13	10	23	46
9	Australia	11	12	18	41
10	Spain	7	8	17	32
13	India	5	9	10	24