Asian Para Games Live: India ended the Asian Para Games 2023 campaign with a best-ever haul of 111 medals. Javelin Thrower Neeraj Yadav, and athlete Dilip Gavit began the day by winning gold medals, Chess player Drpan Inani also added a gold medal as India bagged a total of 29 gold, 31 silver and 51 bronze medals.
With 111 medals, India finished fifth overall on the medals tally. Hosts China finished first with an overall tally of 521 medals. Iran, Japan and Korea finisned second, third and fourth respectively.
Asian Para Games Live Schedule, Oct 28
Asian Para Games Day 6 Results
Athletics
Men’s javelin F55 final
Neeraj Yadav – GOLD – 33.69m, Tek Chand – BRONZE – 30.36m, Manihas – 5th – 28.13m –
Men’s long jump T63 final
Shailesh Kumar – 4th 5.54m, 5.45m – 6th
Men’s 400m T12 final
Arif Mohammad – 4th – 56.53 sec
Women’s 400m T12 final
Radha Venkatesh – 4th – 1:07.16
Men’s 400m T47 final
Dilip Mahadu – GOLD – 49.48m, Jasbeer – 4th – 50.74m
Women’s 400m T47 final
Jayanti Behera – DNS
Women’s 1500m T20 final
Pooja – 5:38.81 – BRONZE – Third
4×100 Universal relay final
Simran, Jayanthi Nehera, Shreyansh Trivedi, Manojkumar Sabapathy – DNS
Chess
All finals
Rowing
PR3 Mixed doubles sculls final (Anita, Narayana)
Dilip Gavit delivered India’s 100th medal, winning a gold medal in the men’s 400m T47 with a timing of 49.48 seconds. In the same competition, Jasbeer finished fourth. Pooja won the bronze medal in the women’s 1500m T20, while Neeraj Yadav and Tek Chand recorded a double podium finish in men’s javelin throw F55 with gold and bronze medals.
In the men’s Rapid V1-B2/B3 event Kishan Gangoli won the bronze medal. India also won a medal in rowing with Anita and Narayana Konganapalle winning the silver medal in Mixed double sculls PR3.
