India Paralympics, Tokyo Paralympics 2021

India Paralympics:- (Tokyo Paralympics 2021) India made its Summer Paralympic debut at the 1968 Games, contended again in 1972, and afterward was missing until the 1984 Games. The nation has taken part in each version of the Summer games from that point forward. It has never taken part in the Winter Paralympic Games.

India’s first decoration in the Paralympics came in the 1972 Games, with Murlikant Petkar winning a gold award in swimming. India completed 25th out of the 42 taking part countries, India’s best at any point finish yet. 

History (India Paralympics) 

Tokyo Paralympics 2021:– India’s first award, and furthermore the primary individual gold decoration, was dominated in the 1972 Games when Murlikant Petkar swam the 50 meter free-form in a world record season of 37.331 seconds. India completed at 25th position in those games. In 1984, Joginder Singh Bedi won silver at the Men’s Shot Put and followed it up with a couple of bronze-winning exhibitions in the Discus and Javelin tosses. Consequently, Joginder turned into the first multi-medallist Paralympians from India. Bhimrao Kesarkar likewise won a silver decoration in Javelin in the 1984 Games. India completed 37th out of the 54 partaking nations.

India kept on taking part in each Paralympic Games from that point, however, neglected to have an effect until the 2004 Games when Devendra Jhajharia, lance hurler, won gold and Rajinder Singh won bronze for powerlifting in the 56-kg class. India completed 53rd out of the 136 taking part countries. 

The 2020 Games saw India’s best-ever award pull with an aggregate of 15 decorations (3 Gold, 7 Silver, and 5 Bronze). This outcome was superior to the decoration take of 12 awards of all past Paralympics appearances consolidated. The games likewise had India’s best ever interest yet with 54 competitors (40 men, 14 ladies) across nine games. 

Avani Lekhara Shooter won two awards – gold in 10m Air Rifle SH1 and bronze in 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1, in the 2020 Games. Accordingly, she turned into the primary Indian lady to win a singular gold decoration and first lady multi-medalist.

Shooter Singhraj Adhana won two decorations – silver in Mixed 50m gun SH1 classification and bronze in Men’s 10m air rifle SH1 classification, in the 2020 Games. 

In the 2020 Games, Vinod Kumar at first secured a bronze award in the men’s plate toss F52 class occasion. In any case, different contenders brought up issues about his inability, and were consequently assigned as “Arrangement not Completed”. His presentation was excluded, bringing about the deficiency of his medal.

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Medals (Tokyo Paralympics 2021)

Medals by Summer Games

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1960 Rome	Did Not Participate
1964 Tokyo
1968 Tel Aviv	10	0	0	0	0	–
1972 Heidelberg	10	1	0	0	1	25
1976 Toronto	Did Not Participate
1980 Arnhem
/ 1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	5	0	2	2	4	37
1988 Seoul	2	0	0	0	0	–
1992 Barcelona	9	0	0	0	0	–
1996 Atlanta	9	0	0	0	0	–
2000 Sydney	4	0	0	0	0	–
2004 Athens	12	1	0	1	2	53
2008 Beijing	5	0	0	0	0	–
2012 London	10	0	1	0	1	67
2016 Rio de Janeiro	19	2	1	1	4	43
2020 Tokyo	54	3	7	5	15	35
Total		7	11	9	27	68

Medals by Summer Sport

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	4	9	5	18
Shooting	2	1	2	5
Swimming	1	0	0	1
Table tennis	0	1	0	1
Archery	0	0	1	1
Powerlifting	0	0	1	1
Total	7	11	9	27

Medals by Winter Games

Medals by Winter Sport

Medalists

Medal	Name/Team	Games	Sport	Event
Gold	Murlikant Petkar	1972 Heidelberg	Swimming	Men’s 50m Freestyle 3
Silver	Bhimrao Kesarkar	/  1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	Men’s Javelin L6
Silver	Joginder Singh Bedi		Athletics	Men’s Shot Put L6
Bronze	Joginder Singh Bedi		Athletics	Men’s Javelin L6
Bronze	Joginder Singh Bedi		Athletics	Men’s Discus Throw L6
Gold	Devendra Jhajharia	2004 Athens	Athletics	Men’s Javelin F44/46
Bronze	Rajinder Singh Rahelu		Powerlifting	Men’s 56 kg
Silver	Girisha Nagarajegowda	2012 London	Athletics	Men’s High Jump F42
Gold	Mariyappan Thangavelu	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Athletics	Men’s High Jump F42
Gold	Devendra Jhajharia		Athletics	Men’s Javelin Throw F46
Silver	Deepa Malik		Athletics	Women’s Shot Put F53
Bronze	Varun Singh Bhati		Athletics	Men’s High Jump F42
Gold	Avani Lekhara	2020 Tokyo	Shooting	Women’s 10m Air Rifle SH1
Gold	Sumit Antil		Athletics	Men’s Javelin Throw F64
Gold	Manish Narwal		Shooting	Men’s 50m Pistol SH1
Silver	Bhavina Patel		Table Tennis	Women’s Singles C4
Silver	Nishad Kumar		Athletics	Men’s High Jump T47
Silver	Yogesh Kathuniya		Athletics	Men’s Discus Throw F56
Silver	Devendra Jhajharia		Athletics	Men’s Javelin Throw F46
Silver	Mariyappan Thangavelu		Athletics	Men’s High Jump T63
Silver	Praveen Kumar		Athletics	Men’s High Jump T64
Silver	Singhraj Adhana		Shooting	Men’s 50m Pistol SH1
Bronze	Sundar Singh Gurjar		Athletics	Men’s Javelin Throw F46
Bronze	Singhraj Adhana		Shooting	Men’s 10m Air Pistol SH1
Bronze	Sharad Kumar		Athletics	Men’s High Jump T63
Bronze	Avani Lekhara		Shooting	Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1
Bronze	Harvinder Singh		Archery	Men’s Individual Recurve Open

Multiple Medalists

Athlete	Games	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Devendra Jhajharia	2004 Athens  2016 Rio de Janeiro  2020 Tokyo	Athletics	2	1	0	3
Mariyappan Thangavelu	2016 Rio de Janeiro  2020 Tokyo	Athletics	1	1	0	2
Avani Lekhara	2020 Tokyo	Shooting	1	0	1	2
Joginder Singh Bedi	/  1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York	Athletics	0	1	2	3
Singaraja Adhana	2020 Tokyo	Shooting	0	1	1	2

2012 Games Village Controversy 

During the 2012 Summer Paralympics, it was accounted for that mentors and escorts of the Indian Team were denied convenience in the Games Village in light of the fact that their licenses were being utilized by authorities of the Paralympic Committee of India. The Team’s 10 competitors were to be helped by six mentors and five escorts, yet just two escorts were given passes; Paralympic Committee General Secretary Ratan Singh affirmed that he had brought his child, that the Committee president had brought his significant other, and the financial officer had brought his better half and daughter.