PM Narendra Modi spoke to the Paralympic medal winners, calling the medals a gift for the country
The strong performance of Indian para-athletes in the Paris Paralympics 2024 has made the whole country happy. Indian players have won 26 medals in these games so far, which is India's best performance in the history of the Paralympics. Not only the common fans but also Prime Minister Narendra Modi is very happy with the success of para-athletes and is constantly encouraging the players. In this sequence, PM Modi spoke to medal winners Harvinder Singh, Sachin Khilari, Kapil Parmar, Pranav Surma, and Dharambir over the phone in the last two days and congratulated them on winning the medals. The PM called the achievement of these medal winners a gift for the country.
India's performance in Paris Olympics 2024 was not as expected and Indian players could not even repeat the success of the 7 medals of the Tokyo Olympics. Indian athletes returned from Paris with 6 medals, which did not include a single gold medal. The story in Paralympics has been completely different and here Indian players also broke the record of 19 medals in Tokyo Paralympics. Prime Minister Modi is also constantly talking to Indian athletes congratulating them on their success and encouraging the rest of the players.
On Friday, September 6, PM Modi spoke to such medal winners. The PM spoke to Para Archery's gold medalist Harvinder Singh, shot put silver winner Sachin Khilari, and other medal winners over the phone, and congratulated them for their success. During this, PM praised the courage of these players and called them an inspiration. Not only the players, but PM also praised all the coaches who played an important role in the excellent performance of these players and praised their hard work. Apart from Harvinder and Sachin, the Prime Minister also spoke to Kapil Parmar, who won a medal for India for the first time in Judo, Dharambir who won gold with an Asian record in club throw, and Pranav Surma who won a silver medal in the same event.
India has won a total of 26 medals so far, out of which 6 are gold, 9 are silver, and 11 are bronze medals. India is currently ranked 14th in the medal table and the number of these medals is expected to increase further in the remaining 2 days. On Friday, 6 September, India won a gold medal, where Praveen Kumar won the gold medal with an Asian record in the men's T64 category high jump. Praveen won this gold with a jump of 2.08 meters. With this, he successfully achieved his goal of changing the color of the silver medal won in the Tokyo Paralympics.