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Tamil Nadu showers cash awards on state’s Paralympics medal-winners

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Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister, M K Stalin felicitated the Paris Paralympics 2024 medalists from the state with cash incentives on Wednesday. There were four Paralympic medalists from Tamil Nadu, three in the sport of Para-badminton, and one from the history-making Para-athletics contingent. INR 2 Crore for Thulasimathi Among these medalists, Para-shuttler Thulasimathi Murugesan who won the silver medal in the women’s singles SU5 category received a cash price of INR 2 crore. Meanwhile, the bronze medalists, Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan (Women’s Singles SH6) and Manisha Ramadass (Women’s Singles SU5) presented with a cash price of INR 1 crore. Mariyappan Thanagavelu, who completed his full set of medals by winning a bronze in the men’s high jump T63 event at the Paris Paralympics, was also awarded by Stalin with a cash prize of INR 1 Crore. This was the third Paralympic medal for Mariyappan after a gold at the Rio Paralympics and a silver in the Tokyo Paralympics. Chief Minister Stalin expressed his delight during the felicitation program and said that he wished for many more …

Para Badminton Paris Paralympics 2024 Live Updates: Sivarajan-Nithya lose bronze battle; Thulasimathi Murugesan, Nitesh Kumar, Suhas Yathiraj play for gold | Sport-others News

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From train accident to Paris Paralympics final, Nitesh Kumar engineers path to brink of glory Nitesh Kumar, the highly skilled towering shuttler from Haryana, downed Japan’s Fujihara Daisuke 21-16, 21-12 in the semifinals at the Chapelle Arena. (Screengrab via Paralympics) Nitesh came into the sport with a helpful build beyond his left leg amputation, but also a reputation in Para circles for playing fancy badminton, and flashy strokes. One of the most strokeful players, his overflowing talent needed direction. Gopichand would assign three of his top coaches to rotate in surprise sessions. “He has good height, and everything in defence, attack and strokes is good,” explains coach Rajendra Kumar. “But we shuffled his sessions, to add variations of three different playing styles so he would get used to different players,” he said. (READ MORE) Source link

Krishna Nagar exits in the group stage

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It was a heartbreaking evening for Indian badminton fans as the defending champion Krishna Nagar suffered a group-stage exit in the men’s singles SH6 category at the Paris Paralympic Games on Saturday. He conceded his second straight defeat in the group stage, where, in the final group match against Thailand’s Natthapong Meechai, he retired out in the second game, trailing by 3-11. Earlier, he also suffered a defeat in the first group stage match against Miles Krajewski of the USA in the straight games on Friday. Meanwhile, in the women’s SH6 category, top-seeded Nithya Sre Sivan conceded her first defeat of the tournament in her last group-stage match against Lin Shunagbao of China, 20-22, 18-21. This was the fourth meeting between the two and the Indian hadn’t found a way out for Lin yet, losing in all four of these occasions. Despite that, Nithya still qualified for the quarterfinal stage. In the women’s singles SL3 category, Mandeep Kaur won her first match of the Paris Paralympics 2024 as she beat Vinot Celine Aurelie of Australia …