Yogesh Kathunia: India has got its 8th medal in Paris Paralympics. Yogesh Kathunia won the silver medal in discus throw. He won the silver medal in the men’s discus throw F56 event. Yogesh Kathunia’s first throw was 42.22 meters. After this, the second, third, fourth and fifth were 41.50 meters, 41.55 meters, 40.33 meters and 40.89 meters respectively. Anyway, in this way India got its 8th medal. At the same time, India is currently at the 30th position in the medal tally. So far, Indian players have won 3 silver medals and 4 bronze medals apart from 1 gold medal.
Yogesh Kathuniya won silver medal in second consecutive Paralympics
Today, on the fifth day of the Paris Paralympic Games, Yogesh Kathunia created history by winning the silver medal. Actually, Yogesh Kathunia had earlier won the silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics 2020. In this way, he has achieved a big milestone by winning the silver medal in the second consecutive Paralympic Games. Now the number of medals of India has increased to 8. Indian shooter Avani Lekhara won the gold medal in the R2 Women’s 10 meter air rifle (SH1). After this, Mona Agarwal won the bronze medal of this event.
So far these Indian players have won medals in Paris Paralympics…
After Avani Lekhara and Mona Agarwal, Preeti Pal gave India the third medal. Mona Agarwal won the medal in the Women’s 100 meter race (T35). At the same time, Manish Narwal added the fourth medal to India’s bag. Manish Narwal won the silver medal in 10 meter air pistol (SH1). While Rubini Francis won the fifth, Preeti Pal won the sixth, Nishad Kumar won the seventh and Yogesh Kathunia won the eighth medal
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