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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The Paralympic Games for India\u2019s schedule has been confirmed on the following tweet \u201cA sport by sports schedule overview of India\u2019s event\u201d<\/p>\n
Before the mega-event kicks off in Japan, let\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
The following are as follows:-<\/strong><\/p>\n 1) ARCHERY:<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday, August 27<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s Recurve Individual Open \u2013 Harvinder Singh, Vivek Chikara<\/p>\n ii) Men\u2019s Compound Individual Open \u2013 Rakesh Kumar, Shyam Sundar Swami<\/p>\n iii) Women\u2019s Compound Individual Open \u2013 Jyoti Baliyan<\/p>\n iv) Compound Mixed Team Open \u2013 Jyoti Baliyan and TBC<\/p>\n 2) ATHLETICS:<\/strong><\/p>\n August 28<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s Javelin Throw F57 \u2013 Ranjeet Bhati<\/p>\n August 29<\/p>\n ii) Men\u2019s Discus Throw F52 \u2013 Vinod Kumar<\/p>\n iii) Men\u2019s High Jump T47 \u2013 Nishad Kumar, Ram Pal<\/p>\n August 30<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s Discus Throw F56 \u2013 Yogesh Kathuniya<\/p>\n ii) Men\u2019s Javelin Throw F46 \u2013 Sundar Singh Gurjar, Ajeet Singh, Devendra Jhajharia<\/p>\n iii) Men\u2019s Javelin Throw F64 \u2013 Sumit Antil, Sandeep Choudhary<\/p>\n August 31<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s High Jump T63 \u2013 Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Varun Singh Bhati<\/p>\n ii) Women\u2019s 100m T13 \u2013 Simran<\/p>\n iii) Women\u2019s Shot Put F34 \u2013 Bhagyashri Madavrao Jadhav<\/p>\n September 1<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s Club Throw F51 \u2013 Dharambir Nain, Amit Kumar Saroha<\/p>\n September 2<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s Shot Put F35 \u2013 Arvind Malik<\/p>\n September 3<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s High Jump T64 \u2013 Praveen Kumar<\/p>\n ii) Men\u2019s Javelin Throw F54 \u2013 Tek Chand<\/p>\n iii) Men\u2019s Shot Put F57 \u2013 Soman Rana<\/p>\n iv) Women\u2019s Club Throw F51 \u2013 Ekta Bryan, Kashish Lakra<\/p>\n September 4<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s Javelin Throw F41 \u2013 Navdeep Singh<\/p>\n 3) BADMINTON:<\/strong><\/p>\n September 1<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s Singles SL3 \u2013 Pramod Bhagat, Manoj Sarkar<\/p>\n ii) Women\u2019s Singles SU5 \u2013 Palak Kohli<\/p>\n iii) Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 \u2013 Pramod Bhagat & Palak Kohli<\/p>\n September 2<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s Singles SL4 \u2013 Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj, Tarun Dhillon<\/p>\n ii) Men\u2019s Singles SS6 \u2013 Krishna Nagar<\/p>\n iii) Women\u2019s Singles SL4 \u2013 Parul Parmar<\/p>\n iv) Women\u2019s Doubles SL3-SU5 \u2013 Parul Parmar and Palak Kohli<\/p>\n 4) POWERLIFTING:<\/strong><\/p>\n August 27<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s 65kg \u2013 Jaideep Deswal<\/p>\n ii) Women\u2019s 50kg \u2013 Sakina Khatun<\/p>\n 5) SWIMMING:<\/strong><\/p>\n August 27<\/p>\n i) 200 Individual Medley SM7 \u2013 Suyash Jadhav<\/p>\n September 3<\/p>\n i) 50m Butterfly S7 \u2013 Suyash Jadhav, Niranjan Mukundan<\/p>\n 6) SHOOTING:<\/strong><\/p>\n August 30<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s R1 \u2013 10 m air rifle standing SH1 \u2013 Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar, Deepak Saini<\/p>\n ii) Women\u2019s R2 \u2013 10 m air rifle SH1 \u2013 Avani Lekhara<\/p>\n August 31<\/p>\n i) Men\u2019s P1 \u2013 10 m air pistol SH1 \u2013 Manish Narwal, Deepender Singh, Singaraja<\/p>\n ii) Women\u2019s P2 \u2013 10 m air pistol SH1 \u2013 Rubina Francis<\/p>\n September 4<\/p>\n i) Mixed R3 \u2013 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