With 29 medals already at Paris Paralympics 2024, Indian Para athletes have created history by clinching most medals at a single Paralympics edition for India, crossing their previous record of 19 medals at Tokyo Paralympics 2021. India so far have won 7 Gold medals, 9 silver medals and 13 bronze medals at the Paris Paralympics 2024.

Avani Lekhara, Sumit Antil and Nitesh Kumar won the Gold medals in Paris. Avani broke the Paralympic record with 249.7 points in the Women's 10m AR Standing SH1 event while Nitesh Kumar grabbed the gold in Men's Singles SL3 by beating Daniel Bethell in the final. Sumit Antil then broke the Paralympics record in Men's Javelin Throw - F64 with a 70.59m throw to clinch the Gold.

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Both Avani and Sumit became the only the third Indian to win mutiple Gold medals at the Paralympics while 9 other Para Athletes also became multimedalists at Paralympic Games for India.

Praveen Kumar, Dharambir, Harvinder Singh were the other Indians to clinch Gold medals at the Paralympic Games 2024. Praveen won the Gold in Men's High Jump T64, Dharambir won Gold in Men's Club throw F51 while Harvinder Singh became the first Indian to win Gold in Para-Achrey in Paralympics.

On day 10, Mandeep Singh won India's 7th Gold medal by clinching a Pralaympic record in Men's Javelin Throw F-41.

India's medals at Paris Paralympics so far

Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
7	9	13	29

India's medals at Paris Paralympics by sports

Sports	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Para Archery	1	0	1	2
Para Athletics	4	6	7	17
Para Badminton	1	2	2	5
Para Judo	0	0	1	1
Shooting Para Sport	1	1	2	4

Indian Medalists at Paris Paralympics

Medal	Athlete	Sport	Event
Gold	Avani Lekhara	Shooting	Women's R2 10 m air rifle standing SH1
	Kumar Nitesh	Badminton	Men's singles SL3
	Sumit Antil	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F64
	Harvinder Singh	Archery	Men's individual recurve open
	Dharambir Nain	Athletics	Club throw F51
	Praveen Kumar	Athletics	Men's High Jump T64
Gold	Mandeep Singh	Athletics	Men's Javelin Throw F41
Silver	Manish Narwal	Shooting	Men's P1 10 m air pistol SH1
	Nishad Kumar	Athletics	Men's high jump T47
	Yogesh Kathuniya	Athletics	Men's discus throw F56
	Thulasimathi Murugesan	Badminton	Women's singles SU5
	Suhas Yathiraj	Badminton	Men's singles SL4
	Ajeet Singh Yadav	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F46
	Sharad Kumar	Athletics	Men's high jump T63
	Sachin Khilari	Athletics	Men's shot put F46
	Pranav Soorma	Athletics	Club throw F51
Bronze	Preethi Pal	Athletics	Women's 100 m T35, Women's 200 m T35
	Mona Agarwal	Shooting	Women's R2 10 m air rifle standing SH1
	Rubina Francis	Shooting	Women's P2 10 m air pistol SH1
	Manisha Ramadass	Badminton	Women's singles SU5
	Nithya Sre Sivan	Badminton	Women's singles SH6
	Sheetal Devi	Archery	Mixed team compound
	Rakesh Kumar	Archery	Mixed team compound
	Deepthi Jeevanji	Athletics	Women's 400 m T20
	Sundar Singh Gurjar	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F46
	Mariyappan Thangavelu	Athletics	Men's high jump T63
	Kapil Parmar	Judo	Men's J1 -60 kg
Bronze	Simran	Athletics	Women's 200m - T12

India At Paralympics: Medals by Sports in History

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	7	15	11	33
Badminton	3	3	3	9
Shooting	3	2	4	9
Archery	1	0	2	3
Swimming	1	0	0	1
Table tennis	0	1	0	1
Powerlifting	0	0	1	1
Judo	0	0	1	1
Total	15	21	21	59

India At Paralympics: Medals by every edition

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1960 Rome	Did not participate
1964 Tokyo	Did not participate
1968 Tel Aviv	10	0	0	0	0	X
1972 Heidelberg	10	1	0	0	1	25
1976 Toronto	Did not participate
1980 Arnhem	Did not participate
/ 1984 Stoke Mandeville / New York	5	0	2	2	4	37
1988 Seoul	2	0	0	0	0	X
1992 Barcelona	9	0	0	0	0	X
1996 Atlanta	9	0	0	0	0	X
2000 Sydney	4	0	0	0	0	X
2004 Athens	12	1	0	1	2	53
2008 Beijing	5	0	0	0	0	X
2012 London	10	0	1	0	1	67
2016 Rio de Janeiro	19	2	1	1	4	43
2020 Tokyo	54	5	8	6	19	24
2024 Paris	84	7	9	13	29	TBA

All the data are accurate as of 6 September 2024.

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