Tokyo Paralympics 2020 : India finishes 24th with record 19 medals

India finished their campaign at the Tokyo Paralympics 2020 with an all-time high of 19 medals which includes five gold, eight silver, and six bronze. This is the best medal tally for India a single edition of the Paralympic Games. India is placed at 24th position in the overall medal tally out of a total of 162 nations.

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Indian Flag Bearers:

Javelin thrower Tek Chand was the flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics.
Shooter Avani Lekhara was India’s flag-bearer at the closing ceremony.

India at Paralympics 2020:

India sent its biggest ever contingent of 54 para-athletes at Tokyo Paralympics to compete across as many as 9 sporting disciplines at the Games.
Prior to this, India had won a total of 12 Paralympics medals, since making its first appearance at the Paralympics in 1968, till the 2016 Rio.
The Indian theme song of Paralympics 2020 “Kar de kamaal tu”. The composer and singer of the song is Sanjeev Singh, a Divyang cricket player from Lucknow.

List of Indian medallists winners of Tokyo Paralympics 2020:

Gold

Athletics: Sumit Antil (Men’s Javelin Throw)
Badminton: Pramod Bhagat (Men’s Singles)
Badminton: Krishna Nagar (Men’s Singles)
Shooting: Manish Narwal (Mixed 50m Pistol)
Shooting: Avani Lekhara (Women’s 10m Air Rifle Standing)

Silver

Athletics: Yogesh Kathuniya (Men’s Discus Throw)
Athletics: Nishad Kumar (Men’s High Jump)
Athletics: Mariyappan Thangavelu (Men’s High Jump)
Athletics: Praveen Kumar (Men’s High Jump)
Athletics: Devendra Jhajharia (Men’s Javelin Throw)
Badminton: Suhas Yathiraj (Men’s Singles)
Shooting: Singhraj Adhana (Mixed 50m Pistol)
Table Tennis: Bhavina Patel (Women’s Singles)

Bronze

Archery: Harvinder Singh (Men’s Individual Recurve)
Athletics: Sharad Kumar (Men’s High Jump)
Athletics: Sundar Singh Gurjar (Men’s Javelin Throw)
Badminton: Manoj Sarkar (Men’s Singles)
Shooting: Singhraj Adhana (Men’s 10m Air Pistol)
Shooting: Avani Lekhara (Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions)

Important takeaways from Tokyo Paralympics:

Tokyo Paralympics was the 16th Summer Paralympic Games, held in Tokyo, Japan from August 24, to September 05, 2021.
Badminton and Taekwondo were inducted for the first time in Tokyo Paralympics.
Team China topped the final medal tally at Tokyo Paralympic Games. The country won a total of 207 medals (96 golds, 60 silvers and 51 bronzes). United Kingdom (124) gets the second position followed by the USA(104).
This is the fifth consecutive time China dominated Paralympic Games in both gold medal tally and overall medal tally.
The closing ceremony was entitled ‘Harmonious Cacophony’ and involved both able-bodied actors and others with disabilities. The theme was described by organizers as a ‘world inspired by the Paralympics, one where differences shine’