2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games Highlights Day 9: Look Back at Major Headlines, Match Results, Updated Medals Tally

It was a mixed day for India at the Tokyo Paralympics 2020 with the para shuttlers Pramod Bhagat, Krishna Nagar, Palak Kohli, Suhas L Yathiraj, Tarun Dhillon winning their matches. Prachi Yadav made India proud by securing a semifinal spot in the canoe sprint event. Aruna Tanwar meanwhile had to withdraw from her repechage round due to an injury. Check out the medal tally.

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Arvind Malik who was in the quest of gold in the Men's Shot Put Finals has ended his campaign by being on number seven.

Pramod Bhagat booked a place in the next round of Men's Badminton Singles in the SL3 category at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics with a  win over Ukrainian Oleksandr Chyrkov. Bhagat won the game in straight sets (21-12, 21-9). 

Rahul Jhakar missed out on a medal in the Mixed 25m Pistol SH1 event as he finished on the fifth spot in the finals. Jhakar finished with a score of 12 in the event.

Rahul Jakhar qualified for the Mixed 25m Piston SH1 Final as he finished second after the precision and rapid qualification round. Jakhar will be aiming to secure another medal for India,

Krishna Nagar and Palak Kohli emerged victorious in their respective group stage games. Nagar defeated Didin Taresoh 2-0 (22-20, 21-10) in Men’s Singles SH6 Group match. Meanwhile, Kohli, got the better of Zehra Baglar 21-12, 21-18.

Auna Tanwar lost to Peru's LC Espinoza in Women K44-49kg Quarterfinal round of Taekwondo event at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020. Tanwar suffered a 21-84 defeat against the Peruvian. She will now face Azerbaijan's Royala Fataliyeva in the Repechage round.

World No.1 Parul Parmar lost her opening game in straight sets in the Women’s Singles SL4 Group match of the Badminton event at Tokyo Paralympic Games against China's Hefang Chang.

Rahul Jakhar and Akash finished in 13th and 20th positions respectively in the Mixed 25M Pistol SH1 Qualification – Precision round. 

Aruna Tanwar defeated Serbian Danijela Jovanovic 29-9 in her round of 16 bout in the Taekwondo w=event at Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020 to advance to the final eight.

Tarun Dhillon also started his Paralympic Games campaign on the front foot with a straight-set win over Thailand's Siripong Teamarrom in badminton's Men’s Singles SL4 Group match.

Suhas Yathiraj won his opening group game of Paralympics 2020 in badminton as he defeated Germany's Niklas J Pott 2-0. Yathiraj will be aiming to advance to the next round with a win in his second match.

Prachi Yadav was India's first-ever athlete to qualify for the canoeing event at the Paralympic Games and has not qualified for the semifinals of the event, finishing fourth in the 200m VL2 heat with a time of 1:11.098.

Indian women's badminton duo of Palak Kohli and Paral Parmar lost their opening group match 2-0 against second seeds Huihui MA and Hefang Cheng of China. They will be aiming to get back to winning ways in their next game.