After record-setting Tokyo 2020, PCI aims for 25 medals, including 10 golds, at Paris 2024
• 4 years agoIndia's Paralympians returned from Tokyo 2020 with an unprecedented medal haul of five golds, eight silver and six bronze medals. This was India's best-ever Paralympics campaign.
India's Tokyo Paralympics 2020 heroes return to grand welcome
• 4 years agoChaotic scenes unfolded at the Indira Gandhi international Airport here as fans and an army of media-persons disregarded COVID-19 protocols, jostling for space to get hold of the four para athletes, especially Sumit.
Tokyo Paralympics: Mariyappan Thangavelu, Sharad Kumar's high jump medals propel India to double digits
• 4 years agoIndia have so far won two gold, five silver and three bronze medals in the ongoing Paralympics. Athletics has once again been the country's happy hunting ground with one gold, four silver and two bronze so far.
Memorable day for India at Tokyo Paralympics as world records tumble
Fpsports • 4 years agoRevisiting the defining images of Day 6 of the Tokyo Paralympics, where history was made, records tumbled and the Indian national anthem played — twice!
'It wasn't my best performance': Sumit Antil on Tokyo 2020 gold with world record throws
• 4 years agoSumit Antil said: "I was a little nervous because the competitors are great. I was hoping for a 70m-plus throw. Thought, maybe I can do 75m. It was not my best, I am very happy to break the world record."
Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Meet Sumit Antil, who reset world record thrice on way to winning javelin gold
Fpsports • 4 years agoJavelin thrower Sumit Antil won India’s seventh medal of Tokyo Paralympics. Here's a short profile of the man who reset the world record thrice on the way to winning gold at Tokyo Paralympics
Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Javelin thrower Sumit Antil clinches India's second gold in stunning world record show
• 4 years agoThe 23-year-old from Sonepat in Haryana, who lost his left leg below the knee after he was involved in a motorbike accident in 2015, sent the spear to 68.55m in his fifth attempt, which was the best of the day by quite a distance and a new world record.
Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Sumit Antil shatters own record thrice, wins gold medal
Fpsports • 4 years agoSumit Antil broke his own record thrice in the space of five throws to win India's first gold medal in athletics at a Paralympics.
Sumit Antil breaks personal world record in F44 javelin throw during National Para Athletics
• 4 years agoThe 22-year-old Antil bettered his own record of 66.43m which he had recorded during the Indian Grand Prix organised by the Athletics Federation of India at Patiala. He had competed with able-bodied athletes in that event.
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju felicitates World Para Athletics Championships medal winners with cash awards
• 5 years agoSports Minister Kiren Rijiju felicitated the medal-winning Indian para-athletes with cash awards for their best-ever performance at the recently-concluded World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai