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Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 5 Live Updates: Sumit Antil in javelin, shuttlers Nitesh Kumar, Thulasimathi, Suhas Yathiraj in gold contention | Sport-others News

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Nitesh Kumar: From train accident to Paris Paralympics final 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 is a trained engineer, who suffered an unfortunate train accident when he fell out of a moving coach during college, needing prosthetics on his left foot. A strapping 6 footer with a wicked reverse drop on the court, he had always liked badminton, but got serious about it in the last few years. Playing mixed doubles alongside Thulasimathi Murugesan, he spent his last six weeks before heading out to Paris, at the Pullela Gopichand academy, for a specific skills bootcamp. (READ MORE) Source link

Paralympics 2024 Day 4: Nishad Kumar wins silver, Preethi wins a bronze, Rakesh Kumar finishes fourth

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Indian para-athletes will have their task cut out on Day 4 of the Summer Paralympics in Paris, with action-packed events in shooting, archery, badminton, and athletics. In badminton, there’s a busy schedule with quarterfinals and semifinals in the Men’s and Women’s Singles in the SL3, SL4, and SU5 categories. A highlight will be the all-Indian semifinal between Suhas Yathiraj and Sukant Kadam in the SL4 category. In compound para-archery, Rakesh Kumar will aim for a medal, with the medal matches scheduled for today. In para-athletics, Preeti Pal will compete in the Women’s 200m T35 final, hoping to add another medal after becoming India’s first track medalist with a bronze in the 100m in the same category. Meanwhile, Nishad Kumar and Ram Pal will aim for medals in the Men’s High Jump T47 Final Rongali Ravi finishes fifth in the Men’s Shotput F40 Final. The Patel sisters, Bhavinaben and Sonalben will be back in action in para-table tennis, this time competing in the Women’s Singles WS3 category, after bowing out in the doubles event in the …

Rakesh Kumar clinches gold medal

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Rakesh Kumar successfully defended his gold medal in the men’s compound category at the 8th Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament in Dubai on Thursday. Indian contingent missed out on any quota from the event by grabbing three medals. Rakesh continues his excellent streak of 145+ scores to clinch this gold medal match (147-143) against Indonesian youngster Ken Swagumilang. He started the match with a perfect ten to show his momentum and form in the tournament. He didn’t give any opportunity to the youngster and confirmed his back-to-back win over Ken after shooting more than 28 in each of the five ends. Rakesh, ranked second in the world 2, was playing in his first international competition of the year, and is very happy to start the year on a high note. “The one who executes their training and process will succeed so I just did what my coaches had told me in training hence the results came out and I claimed gold. The final was good, I am happy with my shooting and now my …

Rakesh Kumar, Pooja Jatyan into final

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Rakesh Kumar in the men’s compound while Pooja Jatyan in women’s recurve makes it to the Individual final of the 8th Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament in Dubai, UAE on Tuesday. Rakesh Kumar, ranked second in the world recovers a big deficit of three points at the end of the three rounds to topple (145-143) the world no.3, Kevin Polish of USA in the semis. He showed excellent archery throughout the elimination round and was consistently scoring high scores of 145 or more in all four rounds of elimination. He also got better than fellow Indian Shyam Sundar Swami in a high-scoring (147-145) quarterfinal. The experienced archer will be up against his Asian rival Ken Swagumilang of Indonesia in the title clash on 7th March. Former world medalist, Pooja Jatyan has also made it to the final, she upset (7-3) the second-seeded Japanese player, Chika Shigesada in the semis to book a place in the final of an international event after two years. The 26-year-old, Pooja will face the first-seeded and world no.4 Italian …

Sheetal Devi back in action to lead Indian contingent

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Indian para-archers are ready to kick start their season in a tough field at the eighth Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament in Dubai, UAE, from March 3 to 7. Star players like Sheetal Devi, Rakesh Kumar and Harvinder Singh will lead the 14-member Indian contingent for the first ranking tournament of the year in the run-up to the 2024 Paris Paralympics. The event will also serve as a final World Qualification Tournament for the Paris Paralympics. The finalists in all six individual categories at the final qualification tournament will secure a quota place each for their countries. India already has won six quota places for the event with four of them coming in the compound event, while it won one each in the recurve events. Indian shooters will be aiming to add a few more quota places from the Dubai event. Sheetal Devi will be playing her first international event after becoming the world no.1 in the women’s compound open category. She will also eye for her first individual gold on the world stage …