At the Asian Para Games, India clinched three gold medals, with Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi winning the men’s recurve doubles archery event, Nitesh Kumar claiming gold in the men’s singles SL3 para-badminton event and Naveen Sivakumar clinches gold in the men’s singles SL4 final. 

 

India also secured four silver medals across para-athletics, para-archery and para-badminton.

 

In para-athletics, Parmod won silver in the men’s 1,500-metre T46 event, clocking 4 minutes 9.65 seconds to finish second. He retained the silver medal he had won at the Hangzhou edition three years ago.

 

In para-archery, Bhawna and Pooja won silver in the women’s recurve doubles event after losing 0-6 to China in the gold-medal match. Nimisha Chakkungalparambil wins silver in the women’s long jump T47 with a best effort of 5.37m.

 

Meanwhile, in para-badminton, Thulasimathi Murugesan claimed silver in the women’s singles SU5 event. She lost to China’s Qiuxia Yang 18-21, 11-21 in the final.