Indian Military officer Hokato Hotozhe Sema received the bronze medal for India within the males’s shot put F57 class on the Paris Paralympics on Friday, September 6. Sema clinched bronze together with his private better of 14.65m.
The 40-year-old has a really fascinating story. He misplaced his leg throughout a fight operation in 2002. Nonetheless, he did not hand over on life and took up shot put on the age of 32. Notably, that is Sema’s Paralympics debut. He secured a bronze on the Asian Para Video games in 2023 with a throw measuring 13.94m. He made his World Championships debut in 2023 and completed seventh and improved his efficiency to safe the fourth spot on the identical occasion this yr.
Yasin Khosravi diminished the earlier Paralympics report to mud on all his six makes an attempt, clinched gold with a throw of 15.96m, and registered a brand new all-time Paralympics report. Thiago Paulino dos Santos of Brazil received silver together with his effort of 15.06m.
India’s medal winners at Paris Paralympics 2024
S. No. | Athlete | Medal | Sport | Class |
1. | Avani Lekhara | Gold | Taking pictures | Girls’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 |
2. | Mona Agarwal | Bronze | Taking pictures | Girls’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 |
3. | Preethi Pal | Bronze | Athletics | Girls’s 100m T35 |
4. | Manish Narwal | Silver | Taking pictures | Males’s 10m air pistol SH1 |
5. | Rubina Francis | Bronze | Taking pictures | Girls’s 10m Air Pistol SH1 |
6. | Preethi Pal | Bronze | Athletics | Girls’s 200m T35 |
7. | Nishad Kumar | Silver | Athletics | Males’s excessive soar T47 |
8. | Yogesh Kathuniya | Silver | Athletics | Males’s discus throw F56 |
9. | Nitesh Kumar | Gold | Badminton | Males’s singles SL3 |
10. | Manisha Ramadass | Bronze | Badminton | Girls’s singles SU5 |
11. | Thulasimathi Murugesan | Silver | Badminton | Girls’s singles SU5 |
12. | Suhas Yathiraj | Silver | Badminton | Males’s singles SL4 |
13. | Rakesh Kumar / Sheetal Devi | Bronze | Archery | Combined Workforce Compound Open |
14. | Sumit Antil | Gold | Athletics | Males’s javelin throw F64 |
15. | Nithya Sre Sivan | Bronze | Badminton | Girls’s singles SH6 |
16. | Deepthi Jeevanji | Bronze | Athletics | Girls’s 400m T20 |
17. | Sharad Kumar | Silver | Athletics | Males’s excessive soar T63 |
18. | Mariyappan Thangavelu | Bronze | Athletics | Males’s excessive soar T63 |
19. | Ajeet Singh | Silver | Athletics | Males’s javelin throw F46 |
20. | Sundar Singh Gurjar | Bronze | Athletics | Males’s javelin throw F46 |
21. | Sachin Khilari | Silver | Athletics | Males’s shot put F46 |
22. | Harvinder Singh | Gold | Archery | Males’s particular person recurve open |
23. | Dharambir | Gold | Athletics | Males’s membership throw 51 |
24. | Pranav Soorma | Silver | Athletics | Males’s membership throw 51 |
25. | Kapil Parmar | Bronze | Judo | Males’s -60kg J1 |
26. | Praveen Kumar | Gold | Athletics | Males’s excessive soar T64 |
27. | Hokato Hotozhe Sema | Bronze | Athletics | Males’s shot put F57 |