Tokyo Paralympics 2020: All you need to know, about events, dates, and participants
India will be participating in 9 sports and is sending 54 athletes to the Paralympics. After delivering a glorious performance at the recently concluded Olympics, it’s time for the forthcoming edition of the Summer Paralympics. Since 1984, India has participated in each Summer Paralympics edition. Paralympics. India had 19 athletes participate in the Rio Paralympics. For the upcoming Paralympics, India has planned to send its biggest ever contingent. The upcoming edition will witness debuts from sports like badminton and taekwondo.
Indian para-athletes will compete in archery, athletics, badminton, shooting, table tennis, para canoeing, swimming, powerlifting, and taekwondo. The Tokyo Paralympics 2020 will begin on August 25 and end on September 6, 2021. High jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu will be the nation's flag bearer at the Tokyo Paralympics 2020.
India at Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Events, dates & participants
Archery
Friday, August 27
Men’s Recurve Individual Open - Harvinder Singh, Vivek Chikara
Men’s Compound Individual Open - Rakesh Kumar, Shyam Sundar Swami
Women’s Compound Individual Open - Jyoti Baliyan
Compound Mixed Team Open - Jyoti Baliyan & TBC
Badminton
Wednesday, September 1
Men’s Singles SL3 - Pramod Bhagat, Manoj Sarkar
Women’s Singles SU5 - Palak Kohli
Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 - Pramod Bhagat & Palak Kohli
Thursday, September 2
Men’s Singles SL4 - Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj, Tarun Dhillon
Men’s Singles SS6 - Krishna Nagar
Women’s Singles SL4 - Parul Parmar
Women’s Doubles SL3-SU5 - Parul Parmar & Palak Kohli
Para Canoeing
Thursday, September 2
Women’s VL2 - Prachi Yadav
Powerlifting
Friday, August 27
Men’s 65kg - Jaideep Deswal
Women’s 50kg - Sakina Khatun
Swimming
Friday, August 27
200 Individual Medley SM7 - Suyash Jadhav
Friday, September 3
50m Butterfly S7 - Suyash Jadhav, Niranjan Mukundan
Table Tennis
Wednesday, August 25
Individual C3 - Sonalben Madhubhai Patel
Individual C4 - Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel
Taekwondo
Thursday, September 2
Women’s K44 -49kg - Aruna Tanwar
Shooting
Monday, August 30
Men’s R1 – 10 m air rifle standing SH1 - Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar, Deepak Saini
Women’s R2 – 10 m air rifle SH1 - Avani Lekhara
Tuesday, August 31
Men’s P1 – 10 m air pistol SH1 - Manish Narwal, Deepender Singh, Singhraj
Women’s P2 – 10 m air pistol SH1 - Rubina Francis
Wednesday, September 1
Mixed R3 – 10 m air rifle prone SH1 - Deepak Saini, Sidhartha Babu & Avani Lekhara
Thursday, September 2
Mixed P3 - 25 m pistol SH1 - Akash & Rahul Jakhar
Friday, September 3
Men’s R7 - 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 - Deepak Saini
Women’s R8 – 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 - Avani Lekhara
Saturday, September 4
Mixed P4 – 50 m pistol SH1 - Akash, Manish Narwal & Singhraj
Sunday, September 5
Mixed R6 – 50 m rifle prone SH1 - Deepak Saini, Avani Lekhara & Sidhartha Babu
Athletics
Saturday, August 28
Men’s Javelin Throw F57 - Ranjeet Bhati
Sunday, August 29
Men’s Discus Throw F52 - Vinod Kumar
Men’s High Jump T47 - Nishad Kumar, Ram Pal
Monday, August 30
Men’s Discus Throw F56 - Yogesh Kathuniya
Men’s Javelin Throw F46 - Sundar Singh Gurjar, Ajeet Singh, Devendra Jhajharia
Men’s Javelin Throw F64 - Sumit Antil, Sandeep Choudhary
Tuesday, August 31
Men’s High Jump T63 - Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Varun Singh Bhati
Women’s 100m T13 - Simran
Women’s Shot Put F34 - Bhagyashri Madavrao Jadhav
Wednesday, September 1
Men’s Club Throw F51 - Dharambir Nain, Amit Kumar Saroha
Thursday, September 2
Men’s Shot Put F35 - Arvind Malik
Friday, September 3
Men’s High Jump T64 - Praveen Kumar
Men’s Javelin Throw F54 - Tek Chand
Men’s Shot Put F57 - Soman Rana
Women’s Club Throw F51 - Ekta Bhyan, Kashish Lakra
Saturday, September 4
Men’s Javelin Throw F41 - Navdeep Singh
