In Tokyo 2020 Olympics this year, India had sent their largest number of contingents of a total of 108 athletes for the mega-event. Similarly, this year in the 2020 Paralympic Games they will again bring 54 athletes who will take part in nine different sports this year as they look forward to winning medals this year to increase their medal tally.
The entire nation will be looking forward to seeing their athletes kick-off the major event. The nine sports in which the athletes will compete this year will be Taekwondo, Table tennis, Powerlifting, Swimming, Shooting, Canoeing, Badminton, Athletics and Archery this year.
The important Paralympic games will kick off on 27th August and will see all the Indian athletes perform with enthusiasm and excitement in the Japanese capital as they look forward to winning a few medals for our country.
The Paralympic Games for India’s schedule has been confirmed on the following tweet “A sport by sports schedule overview of India’s event”
Before the mega-event kicks off in Japan, let’s have a look at the schedule for the Indian contingents who are set to compete for this year which include the dates, timings and the type of events that are gonna be taken place this year.
The following are as follows:-
1) ARCHERY:
Friday, August 27
i) Men’s Recurve Individual Open – Harvinder Singh, Vivek Chikara
ii) Men’s Compound Individual Open – Rakesh Kumar, Shyam Sundar Swami
iii) Women’s Compound Individual Open – Jyoti Baliyan
iv) Compound Mixed Team Open – Jyoti Baliyan and TBC
2) ATHLETICS:
August 28
i) Men’s Javelin Throw F57 – Ranjeet Bhati
August 29
ii) Men’s Discus Throw F52 – Vinod Kumar
iii) Men’s High Jump T47 – Nishad Kumar, Ram Pal
August 30
i) Men’s Discus Throw F56 – Yogesh Kathuniya
ii) Men’s Javelin Throw F46 – Sundar Singh Gurjar, Ajeet Singh, Devendra Jhajharia
iii) Men’s Javelin Throw F64 – Sumit Antil, Sandeep Choudhary
August 31
i) Men’s High Jump T63 – Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Varun Singh Bhati
ii) Women’s 100m T13 – Simran
iii) Women’s Shot Put F34 – Bhagyashri Madavrao Jadhav
September 1
i) Men’s Club Throw F51 – Dharambir Nain, Amit Kumar Saroha
September 2
i) Men’s Shot Put F35 – Arvind Malik
September 3
i) Men’s High Jump T64 – Praveen Kumar
ii) Men’s Javelin Throw F54 – Tek Chand
iii) Men’s Shot Put F57 – Soman Rana
iv) Women’s Club Throw F51 – Ekta Bryan, Kashish Lakra
September 4
i) Men’s Javelin Throw F41 – Navdeep Singh
3) BADMINTON:
September 1
i) Men’s Singles SL3 – Pramod Bhagat, Manoj Sarkar
ii) Women’s Singles SU5 – Palak Kohli
iii) Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 – Pramod Bhagat & Palak Kohli
September 2
i) Men’s Singles SL4 – Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj, Tarun Dhillon
ii) Men’s Singles SS6 – Krishna Nagar
iii) Women’s Singles SL4 – Parul Parmar
iv) Women’s Doubles SL3-SU5 – Parul Parmar and Palak Kohli
4) POWERLIFTING:
August 27
i) Men’s 65kg – Jaideep Deswal
ii) Women’s 50kg – Sakina Khatun
5) SWIMMING:
August 27
i) 200 Individual Medley SM7 – Suyash Jadhav
September 3
i) 50m Butterfly S7 – Suyash Jadhav, Niranjan Mukundan
6) SHOOTING:
August 30
i) Men’s R1 – 10 m air rifle standing SH1 – Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar, Deepak Saini
ii) Women’s R2 – 10 m air rifle SH1 – Avani Lekhara
August 31
i) Men’s P1 – 10 m air pistol SH1 – Manish Narwal, Deepender Singh, Singaraja
ii) Women’s P2 – 10 m air pistol SH1 – Rubina Francis
September 4
i) Mixed R3 – 10 m air rifle prone SH1 – Deepak Saini, Sidhartha Babu & Avani Lekhara
September 2
i) Mixed P3 – 25 m pistol SH1 – Akash & Rahul Jakhar
September 3
i) Men’s R7 – 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 – Deepak Saini
i)Women’s R8 – 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 – Avani Lekhara
September 4
i) Mixed P4 – 50 m pistol SH1 – Akash, Manish Narwal and Singaraja
September 5
i) Mixed R6 – 50 m rifle prone SH1 – Deepak Saini, Avani Lekhara and Sidhartha Babu
7) TABLE TENNIS:
August 25
i) Individual C3 – Sonalben Madhubhai Patel
ii) Individual C4 – Bhavana Hasmukhbhai Patel
8) TAEKWONDO:
September 2
i) Women’s K44 -49kg – Aruna Tanwar