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Harvinder Singh won India's first Paralympic gold medal in archery. This was his second medal after the bronze he won at the previous Games. [13] Dharambir Nain won India's fifth gold medal in the men's club throw F51 event. [14] Praveen Kumar won India's third athletics gold medal in the men's high jump T64 event. [15]
The medal table of the 2024 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that were won by their athletes during the competition. The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities .
The 2024 Summer Paralympics, the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, and also more generally known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, was a major international multi-sport event for the disabled governed by the International Paralympic Committee, taking place in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September. [1]
India's first medal in the Paralympics came in the 1972 Games, with Murlikant Petkar winning a gold medal in swimming. Up to the recent 2024 Games, India have won 60 medals across all Paralympic Games, with the most successful Paralympic campaign being the Paris 2024 Games with 29 medals including seven gold, nine silver and thirteen bronze.
Below is an all-time medal table for all Paralympic Games from 1960 to 2024. The International Paralympic Committee does not publish all-time tables, and publishes unofficial tables only per single Games. This table was thus compiled by collating single entries from the IPC database. [1]
The designs of the medals for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 8 February 2024; [10] as with the Olympic medals, the front of the Paralympic medals features an embedded original piece of scrap iron from the Eiffel Tower in the shape of a hexagon, engraved with the Paris 2024 emblem.
Kapil Parmar (born 23 June 2000) [1] is an Indian para-judo player. [2] He clinched the bronze medal at the 2024 Paralympics and made history by winning India's first Paralympic medal in judo. [3]
P. Kumar won the gold medal in the 2024 Summer Paralympics and silver medal in the men's high jump T64 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [5] [6] [7] [8]In 2023, he won the men's high jump T64 at the 2022 Asian Para Games at Hangzhou, China on 23 October 2023. [9]