We bring you, today, the Indian Para-Athletics Team for Tokyo 2021. The Indian Para-athletes had performed well at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games as they’d fetch 2 Gold, a Silver and a Bronze medal from the Games edition making it one of their best performing contingent. While they equaled Stoke Mandeville/New York 1984 Paralympics in medal count, they bettered the performance as that edition would see 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.
Indian Para-Athletics Team for Tokyo 2021
| # | Para-Athlete | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Devendra Jhajharia | Men’s Javelin F46 |
| 2 | Ajeet Singh | Men’s Javelin F46 |
| 3 | Sundar Singh Gurjar | Men’s Javelin F46 |
| 4 | Sandeep Sandeep (Sandeep Chaudhary) | Men’s Javelin F64 |
| 5 | Sumit Sumit (Antil) | Men’s Javelin F64 |
| 6 | Mariyappan Thangavelu | Men’s High Jump T63 |
| 7 | Sharad Kumar | Men’s High Jump T63 |
| 8 | Varun Singh Bhati | Men’s High Jump T63 |
| 9 | Amit Kumar | Men’s Club Throw F51 |
| 10 | Dharambir | Men’s Club Throw F51 |
| 11 | Nishad Kumar | Men’s High Jump T47 |
| 12 | Ram Pal | Men’s High Jump T47 |
| 13 | Soman Rana | Men’s Shot Put F57 |
| 14 | Navdeep | Men’s Javelin F 41 |
| 15 | Praveen Kumar | Men’s High Jump T64 |
| 16 | Yogesh Kathuniya | Men’s Discus Throw F56 |
| 17 | Vinod Kumar | Men’s Discus Throw F52 |
| 18 | Ranjeet Bhati | Men’s Javelin F57 |
| 19 | Arvind Arvind | Men’s Shot Put F35 |
| 20 | Tek Chand | Men’s Javelin F54 |
| 21 | Ekta Bhyan | Women’s Club Throw F51 |
| 22 | Kashish Lakra | Women’s Club Throw F51 |
| 23 | Bhagyashri Mahavrao Jadhav | Women’s Shotput F 34 |
| 24 | Simran Simran | Women’s 100m T13 |
| 25 | Sandip Sanjay Sagar | Men’s Javelin F64 (Reserve) |
This was the list with Indian Para-Athletics Team for Tokyo 2021. While Devendra Jhajharia is twice Paralympics Gold Medalist, Mariyappan Thangavelu is Rio 2016 Paralympics Gold medalist and Varun Singh Bhati is the Rio 2016 Paralympics Bronze medalist. Among other top contenders for the podium finish are Sandeep Chaudhary and Sumit Antil. This was it for the day. Hope you liked the content, don’t forget to put in your thoughts & questions as comments below this content.
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