2024-09-02 12:04:23
Paris: India’s Preeti Pal won the bronze medal in the women’s 200m T35 category on Sunday with a personal best time of 30.01 seconds. This is her second medal at the Paris Paralympics. Preeti (23 years) also won India’s second para athletics medal in Paris. T35 includes those players who have coordination disorders such as hypertonia, ataxia and athetosis. On Friday, she won India’s first athletics medal in a Paralympic track event. She won the bronze medal in the women’s T35 100m event with a personal best time of 14.21 seconds. All the athletics medals won by India since the 1984 edition of the Paralympics came from field events. Let us tell you that Preeti Pal has become only the 7th Indian to win multiple i.e. more than one Paralympic medal.Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi congratulated Preeti Pal on winning another bronze medal and praised her a lot. PM Modi tweeted on Twitter, ‘A historic achievement by Preeti Pal. As she won her second medal with a bronze medal in the women’s 200m T35 event at the Paris Paralympics 2024. She is an inspiration to the people of India. Her dedication is truly remarkable.’
India won 6 medals in Paris Paralympics
Let us tell you that India has won a total of 6 medals so far in Paris Paralympics 2024. India has won 1 gold medal, 1 silver medal and 4 bronze medals in Paris Paralympics so far. Avani Lekhara has won the only gold medal for India in this Paralympics so far. At the same time, Indian shuttlers Nitesh Kumar and Suhas Yathiraj have confirmed medals for India. Nitesh has reached the final of the men’s singles SL3 category while Suhas has reached the final of men’s singles badminton SL4. He defeated his compatriot Sukant Kadam in the semi-finals.
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