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India's excellent performance continues in the Paris Paralympic Games 2024. Indian Paralympic athlete Yogesh Kathunia won the 8th medal for India in this event held on Monday. Yogesh won the silver medal for India by finishing second in the men's discus throw F56 event. F56 is a competition in which athletes compete while sitting.
Yogesh represented India for the second time in the Paralympic competition and repeated his previous success. Yogesh also won a silver medal for India at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020. At the Paris Paralympics 2024, he finished second in the final round of discus throw with a throw of 42.22 meters. Claudine Batista of Brazil finished first in this event, who won the gold medal with a throw of 46.86 meters.
Yogesh Kathuniya was born on 4 March 1997 in Bahadurgarh. His father was in the Indian Army while his mother was a housewife. Yogesh suffered from Guillain-Barre syndrome from the age of 9. He studied at the Indian Army Public School, Chandigarh, where his father was posted in Chandimander Cantonment. His mother learned physiotherapy and within 3 years she was able to make Yogesh walk again. Later Yogesh joined Kirori Mall College in Delhi and graduated in commerce.
In 2016 Sachin Yadav, the general secretary of the students' union at Kirori Mall College, inspired him to take part in sports by showing him videos of para-athletes, so Kathuniya took up para-sports. In 2018, he set a world record in the F36 category by throwing the discus 45.18m at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships in Berlin. Kathuniya represented India in the men's discus throw F56 at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won the silver medal. In November 2021, President of India Ram Nath Kovind awarded Kathuniya the Arjuna Award for winning the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.