Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 11:53am on 04 Sep 2024,Wednesday Sports
India has achieved a historic milestone at the Paris Paralympics 2024, winning 21 medals, surpassing the previous tally of 19 medals from Tokyo 2020. The para-athletics contingent secured five medals on Day 6, with Deepthi Jeevanji earning bronze in the women's 400m T20 event, Mariyappan Thangavelu winning bronze in men's high jump T63, and Sharad Kumar claiming silver in the same event. Sundar Singh Gurjar added another bronze in men's javelin throw F46. India's achievements reflect their best-ever performance, with events still to come, cementing this Paralympics as the most successful in the nation's history.
