Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Day 10, Medals table: India at 16th after Navdeep medal upgraded to gold; China leads with 93 gold medals

The 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris get underway with the official opening ceremony on 28 August (events start on 29 August) and will conclude on 8 September.

China maintains a healthy lead at the top with 215 medals, including 93 gold. Great Britain is second in the standings, while the US is third with 47 and 35 gold medals respectively.

India won seven gold, nine silver and 13 bronze medals in Paris, its highest ever tally in a single edition of the Paralympic Games.

India surpassed its Tokyo Paralympics gold medal tally after Praveen Kumar won the men’s high jump T64. Praveen gave the country its sixth gold medal by clearing 2.08m. He won his second consecutive Para Games medal, better than a silver in the previous edition in Tokyo. Hokato Hotozhe added a bronze medal in the men’s shot put F57 event late in the day to take India’s total to 27.

On Saturday, Simran won bronze in the women’s 200m T12 event with a personal best time of 24.75. Navdeep threw a personal best distance of 47.32 to originally win silver in the men’s F41 javelin final. The medal was updated to gold after gold medallist Sadegh Beit Sayah was disqualified.

Kapil Parmar won India’s 25th bronze medal in the men’s -60kg J1 category after beating Brazil’s Elielton de Oliveira.

Harvinder Singh won a historic maiden gold medal for India in para-archery after beating Poland’s Lukasz Ciszek 6-0 (28-24, 28-27, 29-25) in the open final of the men’s individual recurve event to clinch his second consecutive medal at the Paralympic Games.

Later in the day, Dharambir set an Asian record of 34.92m to win the country’s fifth gold in the men’s club throw F51 final at the Paralympics, equalling that of Tokyo. In the same event, Pranav Soorma won silver with a throw of 34.59m.

Earlier, Sachin Khilari won a silver medal in the men’s F46 shot put final with a throw of 16.32 meters.

Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thangavelu won silver and bronze in the men’s high jump T63 on September 3. Ajeet Singh, on the other hand, won a silver medal while Sundar Singh Gurjar bagged a bronze in the men’s javelin throw F46. Deepthi Jeevanji bagged a bronze in the women’s 400m T20.

Sumit Antil won India’s third gold medal in the men’s javelin throw (class F64) with a Paralympic record of 70.59 metres.

Nitesh Kumar won gold in para badminton men’s singles SL3. Later, Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manisha Ramadass bagged silver and bronze respectively in the women’s singles SU5 event. Nithya Sre defeated Rani Marlina of Indonesia to bag bronze in the women’s singles SH6 category, taking India’s tally to 15 medals.

India’s eighth medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games went to Yogesh Kathuniya, who won silver in the men’s discus throw F56 final.

Suhas Yathiraj lost to Lucas Mazur in the gold medal match in the men’s singles SL4 category. Indian para archers Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar defeated Italy’s Eleonora Sarti and Matteo Bonacina 156-155 in the bronze medal match. This will be India’s second para archery medal after Harvinder Singh won bronze in Tokyo.

Nishad Kumar finished second in the men’s T47 high jump final and Preethi Pal won a bronze medal in the women’s 200m T35.

India also has four medals in shooting with Avani Lekhara bagging a gold medal and Mona Agarwal winning bronze in the women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1. Manish Narwal bagged silver in the men’s 10m air pistol SH1 and Rubina Francis won bronze in the P2 women’s 10m air pistol SH1.

At the latest edition of the Paralympic Games in Paris, 4,400 athletes from all over the world will compete in 549 medal events across 22 sports.

Here is the medal tally of the top 10 countries and India:

Updated till September 8, 01:15 AM IST