India secured three medals on the 10th day of the Tokyo Paralympic Games as Harvinder Singh, Avani Lekhra and Praveen Kumar secured podium finishes, taking India's medal tally to 13 at the event, which more than the combined tally from 1968 to 2016. Check Out Paralympics Medal Tally.
Soman Rana missed out on a medal in the Seated Shot Put event at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics as he finished fifth with a best throw of 13.81. The Indian was among the podium finishes but Thiago Paulinho's late flurry saw him drop out.
Harvinder Singh won a bronze medal in Men's Individual Open Recurve category after a shootout win against Korea's Kim Min Su with a score of 6-5. This is India's 13th medal at the Paralympic Games.
#BRONZE for Harvinder. It's the first-ever medal for #IND in #ParaArchery
Harvinder Singh providing a sensational game out there. #tokyo2020 #Paralympics pic.twitter.com/h1MZMWjlOv— Doordarshan Sports (@ddsportschannel) September 3, 2021
Harvinder Singh lost to American Kevin Mather in the semifinals of the Men's Individual Recurve event in Archery. The Indian still has a shot at a podium finish and will now compete for the bronze medal.
Palak Kohli loses to Japan's Kaede Kameyama in Women's Singles SU5 quarterfinal event on Friday. She lost to 0-2 to the Japanese para-shuttler.
Harvinder Singh defeated Germany's Mail Szarszewski 6-2 in the Men's Individual Recurve Open Quarterfinals to proceed to the semis on Friday.
#ParaArchery Update#IND's @ArcherHarvinder defeats #GER Maik Szarszewski 6-2 in Men’s Individual Recurve Open Quarterfinal to advance to Semifinal
An amazing game by Harvinder to secure a place in the Semifinal
Wish him good luck with #Cheer4India#Praise4Para #Paralympics pic.twitter.com/EbEU1GLNf1— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) September 3, 2021
Harvinder Singh defeated Germany's Mail Szarszewski 6-2 in the Men's Individual Recurve Open Quarterfinals to proceed to the semis on Friday.
#ParaArchery Update#IND's @ArcherHarvinder defeats #GER Maik Szarszewski 6-2 in Men’s Individual Recurve Open Quarterfinal to advance to Semifinal
An amazing game by Harvinder to secure a place in the Semifinal
Wish him good luck with #Cheer4India#Praise4Para #Paralympics pic.twitter.com/EbEU1GLNf1— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) September 3, 2021
Vivek Chikara was defeated by Great Britain's David Phillips in the 1/8 Elimination round of the Men's recurve archery event on Friday. He lost 3-7 to his opponent.
#ParaArchery Update#IND's Vivek Chikara goes down 3-7 to #GBR's David Phillips in the 1/8 Elimination round
Vivek gave his best at #Tokyo2020 #Paralympics and India is proud of him
Our best wishes for future competitions#Praise4Para— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) September 3, 2021
Harvinder Singh won a closely fought contest to reach the quarterfinals of the Men's Individual Recurve event on Friday.
🚨 UPDATE 🚨#IND's Harvinder Singh wins by the finest of margins! 🤏
He's through to the quarterfinals of Men's Individual Recurve (Open) after a shoot-off win over #RPC's Bato Tsydendorzhiev 😯#ParaArchery #Tokyo2020 #Paralympics https://t.co/VMnJXAeaAW— #Tokyo2020 for India (@Tokyo2020hi) September 3, 2021
The Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020 is at its business end and there are a galore of events for India which will be happening today. The Tokyo Paralympics 2020 has about 30 events today out of which a few of them in between will be played if the athletes qualify for the next round. This long list of events includes badminton, shooting, swimming archery and a host of others. We bring to you the live streaming details of each of these events. Laso we shall be bringing the live updates of these high-profile events. India continued to have a disappointing outing at the Paralympics 2020. Team India at Tokyo Paralympics 2020 Schedule for September 3, 2021: Check Out Full Schedule, Timings, Events & Live Streaming Details for Day 10.
Talking about day 9, the Indian athletes could not win any medals as the likes of Aruna Tanwar from Taekwondo lost in the round of 16 and obviously could not make it to the next round. Also, Rahul Jakhar missed out on the medal as the shooter lost in the finals of the 25-meter pistol event. Arvind Malik also finished on number seven with the best throw of 13.48m in the Men's Shot Put F35 final event and this could not win any medal.
As of now, India has won 10 medals so far in the Paralympics and the athletes will be surely looking to change the tally by winning more competitions. As of now India is placed on number 36 of the medal tally.