Tokyo Paralympics Schedule for 2021
Itโs time for para-athletes from all around the world to show their mettle at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020. With curtains falling on the Tokyo Olympics with a stellar closing ceremony at the National Stadium in Tokyo the sports enthusiasts all over the world can now turn their attention towards the Paralympic Games. Know about India’s full Tokyo Paralympics Schedule.
This time around India is sending its largest contingent of 54 members for these games. This contingent includes several bright medal prospects.
Indian citizens have high hopes from their athletes especially after Indiaโs chef de mission said that India would win 15 medals including 5 golds.
Here is the full list of India’s Tokyo Paralympics schedule where you’ll be able to watch our Indian para-athletes participating:
Table Tennis
Both Sonalben and Bhavina earned their quota through overall Rankings allocation.
August 25
Individual C3ย – Sonalben Madhubhai Patel
Individual C4ย – Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel
Powerlifting
Sakina Khatun and Jaideep Deswal, both received a bipartite invitation. This would be Jaideepโs second Paralympics as he has already represented India in Lonon 2012 in athletics.
August 27
Men’s 65kg –ย Jaideep Deswal
Women’s 50kg –ย Sakina Khatun
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Swimming
Suyash Jadhav successfully entered the Paralympic slot after he achieved the MQS. Later Niranjan Mukundan received a bipartite invitation.
August 27
200 Individual Medley SM7ย – Suyash Jadhav
September 3
50m Butterfly S7ย – Suyash Jadhav, Niranjan Mukundan
Archery
India archers performed well and achieved the archery quota places from the 2019 World Archery Para Championships.
Harvinder Singh and Vivek Chikara became the first archers from India to qualify for the games. Later others joined them.
Friday, August 27
Men’s Recurve Individual Openย – Harvinder Singh, Vivek Chikara
Men’s Compound Individual Openย – Rakesh Kumar, Shyam Sundar Swami
Women’s Compound Individual Openย – Jyoti Baliyan
Compound Mixed Team Openย – Jyoti Baliyan and TBC
Shooting
The first Indian Para Pistol shooters to qualify for the Paralympics were Manish Narwal and Deepender Singh after they bagged the gold and silver medal at the 2018 World Shooting Para Sport World Cup.
In subsequent tournaments, they were joined by others by virtue of their exemplary performance.
August 30
Men’s R1 โ 10 m air rifle standing SH1ย – Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar, Deepak Saini
Women’s R2 โ 10 m air rifle SH1ย – Avani Lekhara
August 31
Men’s P1 โ 10 m air pistol SH1ย – Manish Narwal, Deepender Singh, Singhraj
Women’s P2 โ 10 m air pistol SH1ย – Rubina Francis
September 4
Mixed R3 โ 10 m air rifle prone SH1ย – Deepak Saini, Sidhartha Babu & Avani Lekhara
September 2
Mixed P3 – 25 m pistol SH1ย – Akash & Rahul Jakhar
September 3
Men’s R7 – 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1ย – Deepak Saini
Women’s R8 โ 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1ย – Avani Lekhara
September 4
Mixed P4 โ 50 m pistol SH1ย – Akash, Manish Narwal and Singhraj
September 5
Mixed R6 โ 50 m rifle prone SH1ย – Deepak Saini, Avani Lekhara and Sidhartha Babu
Badminton
This game is making its debut at the Paralympics. All Indian athletes have qualified through qualification rankings or bipartite invitation.
Septemberย 1
Men’s Singles SL3ย – Pramod Bhagat, Manoj Sarkar
Women’s Singles SU5ย – Palak Kohli
Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5ย – Pramod Bhagat & Palak Kohli
Septemberย 2
Men’s Singles SL4ย – Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj, Tarun Dhillon
Men’s Singles SS6ย – Krishna Nagar
Women’s Singles SL4ย – Parul Parmar
Women’s Doubles SL3-SU5ย – Parul Parmar and Palak Kohli
Para Canoeing
Prachi Yadav will become India’s first Paracanoe athlete at the Tokyo Paralympics. She finished 8th in ICF Championship 2019 and earned a quota.
September 2
Women’s VL2 –ย Prachi Yadav
Taekwondo
Aruna Tanwarย received the bipartite invitation and thus got aย quota for women’s โ49 kg events.
September 2
Women’s K44 -49kgย – Aruna Tanwar
Athletics
India secured qualification places for the Paralympics through world rankings and World Championships.
The Indian athletics contingent has historically fared well with multiple medals. Hopes from the athletes would be high this time too.
August 28
Men’s Javelin Throw F57 –ย Ranjeet Bhati
August 29
Men’s Discus Throw F52 –ย Vinod Kumar
Men’s High Jump T47 –ย Nishad Kumar, Ram Pal
August 30
Men’s Discus Throw F56 –ย Yogesh Kathuniya
Javelin Throw F46 in Men’s Category– Sundar Singh Gurjar, Ajeet Singh, Devendra Jhajharia
Men’s Javelin Throw F64 –ย Sumit Antil, Sandeep Choudhary
August 31
Men’s High Jump T63 –ย Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Varun Singh Bhati
Women’s 100m T13 –ย Simran
Women’s Shot Put F34 –ย Bhagyashri Madavrao Jadhav
September 1
Men’s Club Throw F51 –ย Dharambir Nain, Amit Kumar Saroha
September 2
Men’s Shot Put F35 –ย Arvind Malik
September 3
Men’s High Jump T64ย – Praveen Kumar
Javelin Throw F54 in Men’s Category– Tek Chand
Men’s Shot Put F57ย – Soman Rana
Women’s Club Throw F51ย – Ekta Bhyan, Kashish Lakra
September 4
Men’s Javelin Throw F41ย – Navdeep Singh
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