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Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted this picture on his X (previously Twitter) account congratulating para athlete Sidhartha Babu for profitable a gold medal in the Mixed 50m Rifles Prone SH-1 occasion on the ongoing Asian Para Games being held in Hangzhou, China, on Thursday.
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Indian para athletes on October 26 created history by profitable the very best variety of medals in the Asian Para Games, taking the nation’s tally to 82, together with 18 gold.
India have now gone previous the sooner better of 72 medals achieved in the 2018 version in Indonesia.
India added 18 medals, together with three gold, on October 26.
India’s medals tally stood at 18 gold, 23 silver and 41 bronze on the finish of the fourth day of competitions.
India’s place in the medals tally, nevertheless, dropped two locations to eight, as not too many gold medals have been gained on October 26.
South Korea and Indonesia moved forward of India in the medals tally led by China (156 gold, 128 silver, 108 bronze).
With two extra days left in the Games, the nation is on target of reaching its goal of 100 medals in this version of the Games.
India had gained 72 medals (15 gold, 24 silver, 33 bronze) in the final version in Jakarta which was the very best earlier than the Hangzhou Games.
Eight medals, together with one gold, have been gained by observe and discipline athletes on October 26.
Overall, athletics contributed 45 medals out of India’s whole of 82, and 14 gold in a foreign country’s whole of 18 up to now.
Sachin Sarjerao Khilari gained the primary gold of the day in males’s F46 shot put with a Games record throw of 16.03m whereas Rohit Kumar took the bronze with 14.56m.
Para shooter Sidhartha Babu then bagged one other gold in R6 combined 50m rifle inclined SH1 occasion as he shot an Asian Para Games rating of 247.7.
The compound combined crew of Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar gained a gold after defeating their Chinese counterparts Lin Yueshan and Ai Xinliang 151-149 in the ultimate.
India additionally gained a bronze medal in archery males’s doubles W1 occasion with the pair of Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari and Naveen Dalal defeating the Kazakh pair of Nurshat Toleukassym and Sagdat Duisembayev 125-120.
Simran and Bhagyashri Madhavrao Jadhav gained a silver every in ladies’s T12 100m and girls’s F34 shot put respectively. Simran clocked 26.12 seconds whereas Jadhav cleared 7.54m.
Monu Ghangas additionally picked up a silver in males’s F11 discus throw with an effort of 37.87m.
Narayan Thakur gained a bronze in males’s T35 100m with a time of 14.37 seconds. Shreyansh Trivedi additionally took a bronze in males’s T37 100m with a time of 12.24 seconds.
Muthuraja additionally gained a bronze in the boys’s F55 shot put with a throw of 10.42m.
In para badminton, Sukant Indukant Kadam (males’s singles SL4), Sivan Nithya Sumathy (ladies’s singles SH6), Manisha Ramadass (ladies’s singles SU5), Mandeep Kaur/Manisha Ramadass (ladies’s doubles SL3-SU5), Krishna Nagar/Sivarajan Solaimalai (males’s doubles SH6) and Pramod Bhagat/Sukant Indukant Kadam (males’s doubles SL3-SL4) gained a bronze medal every after shedding their respective semifinal matches.
In chess, Bhaveshkumar Rathi Himanshi picked up a bronze in ladies’s particular person normal VI-B1 occasion.
