Indian para athletes created historical past on Saturday as they ended their Hangzhou Asian Para Video games marketing campaign with an unprecedented 111 medals, the most important haul for the nation in any main worldwide multi-sport occasion.
With 29 gold, 31 silver and 51 bronze of their kitty, the Indian para athletes gained 4 medals greater than the report tally of 107 gained by the able-bodied athletes within the Hangzhou Asian Video games held from September 23 to October 8.
India ended at fifth place within the medals tally, a exceptional achievement in itself, under China (521 medals: 214 gold, 167 silver, 140 bronze), Iran (44 gold, 46 silver, 41 bronze), Japan (42, 49, 59) and Korea (30, 33, 40).
The primary Para Asian Video games was held in 2010 in Guangzhou, China, the place India had completed fifteenth with 14 medals, together with one gold.
Within the 2014 and 2018 editions, India had completed fifteenth and ninth respectively.
The one occasion India had crossed the 100-medal mark in a significant worldwide multi-sport occasion (Olympics, Asian Video games and Commonwealth Video games) was the 101 gained in the course of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Video games.
“We’ve made historical past, our para athletes have accomplished the nation proud. We’ll win extra medals within the Paris Paralympics than in Tokyo,” Paralympic Committee of India president Deepa Malik instructed PTI.
On Thursday, India had gone previous the sooner highest Asian Para Video games tally of 72 medals (15 gold, 24 silver, 33 bronze) achieved within the 2018 version.
India gained 39 extra medals than the 2018 version with athletics contributing 55 (18 gold, 17 silver, 20) out of India’s whole of 111.
Indian shuttlers contributed the second most medal with 21, together with 4 gold. Chess and archery gave eight and 7 medals respectively whereas capturing contributed six.
On the concluding day on Saturday, India added 12 medals, together with 4 gold. Seven medals got here from chess, 4 from athletics and one from rowing.
Neeraj Yadav started the day for India with a gold in males’s javelin throw F55 with a Video games report of 33.69m. Compatriot Tek Chand clinched a bronze with a private better of 30.36m in the identical occasion.
Dilip Mahadu Gaviot added one other athletics gold by profitable the lads’s 400m T47 race with a time of 49.48 seconds.
Pooja then picked up the final athletics medal by bagging a bronze in ladies’s 1500m T20 race with a time of 5:38.81s.
Chess gamers saved the most effective for the final with a seven-medal rush, together with two gold, on the ultimate day.
India swept all of the three medals in males’s particular person fast VI-B1 occasion with Satish Inani Darpan profitable gold whereas Pradhan Kumar Soundarya and Ashwinbhai Kanchanbhai Makwana bagged silver and bronze respectively. The trio additionally bagged the crew gold.
Kishan Gangoli gained a bronze in males’s particular person fast VI-B2/B3 occasion. Gangoli, Somendra and Aryan Balchandra Joshi gained a crew bronze in the identical occasion.
The trio of Vruthi Saganlal Jain, Himanshi Bhaveshkumar Rathi and Sanskruti Vikas Extra gained a bronze in ladies’s fast VI-B1 crew occasion.
On Saturday, India additionally gained the lone medal in rowing with Anita and Konganapalle Narayana selecting up a silver in PR3 blended double sculls occasion.
India had despatched 313 athletes on the Hangzhou Para Asian Video games, the most important in any version with 51 Tokyo Paralympians within the crew.
India competed in 17 out of twenty-two sports activities, with the nation fielding athletes for the primary time in rowing, canoeing, garden bowl, taekwondo and blind soccer.
Almost 4,000 athletes from 43 nations are competing throughout 22 sports activities in 566 gold-medal occasions within the Hangzhou Asian Para Video games.
The Hangzhou Asian Para Video games have been initially scheduled to happen from October 9-15, 2022, however have been postponed by a yr because of the Covid-19 pandemic.