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Paris 2024 Paralympics: India won its 24th medal at the Paris Paralympics on Wednesday night. Dharambir Singh won the gold medal and Pranav Surma won the silver medal in the club throw final competition that lasted till 2 o'clock. Earlier, archer Harvinder Singh won the gold medal and shot putter Sachin Sargerao won the silver medal. On the 7th day of the Games, Indian athletes won 2 gold and 2 silver medals.
With this, the total number of medals won by India in the Paris Games has gone up to 24. These include 5 gold, 9 silver and 10 bronze medals. Currently, India is at number 13 in the medal list. This is the best performance of Indian para athletes in Paralympic history. India won 19 medals in the Tokyo Games.
India won gold and silver medals in the club throw event in the men's F-51 category but missed a clean sweep. Later in the night, Dharambir Singh won the gold with a best throw of 34.92m and Pranav Surma won the silver with a best throw of 34.59m. Serbia's Zeliko Dimitrijevic won the bronze with a best throw of 34.18m.
In the club throw event, India could have won all three medals with a clean sweep but Amit Kumar fouled 4 throws in 6 attempts. His two throws were accurate, the best of which went only to 23.96 meters. Due to which Amit finished 10th.
Harvinder Singh became the first Indian to win a gold medal in archery at the Paralympic Games. Harvinder finished 9th in the men's individual recurve open ranking round. In the round of 32, he defeated Lung-Hui Tseng of Chinese Taipei 7-3. In the pre-quarterfinals, Harvinder defeated Setiawan 6-2.
Simran of India has made it to the semi-finals of the 100 meter race in the women's T-12 category. She secured first place in heat-1 of round-1 with a time of 12.17 seconds. Simran's semi-final will be held tomorrow at 3.21 pm.
Sachin Sargerao won the first medal in shot put on the seventh day of the Paralympics. He won the silver medal in the men's F-46 category with an Asian record time of 16.32.