With Olympics fever still high after India's best-ever performance at the Olympics. However, it is now time to turn our heads towards the Tokyo Paralympics 2020. There is no doubt that an athlete has to give his all to compete at the top level such as the Olympics. Also only the ones who are at the top of their game are able to win a medal. Similarly, Paralympic athletes deserve more respect as they battle against all the odds to rise to such a level.

Meanwhile, India bagged seven medals at Tokyo Olympics 2020. Moreover, the Paralympic contingent will also aim to follow suit. In fact, the Paralympic team of India had come up with their best-ever performance in the previous edition. The Edition was hosted in Rio, Brazil. India had won a total of four medals, out of which two were Gold.

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Tokyo Paralympics 2020 will start on 24th August 2021 and will continue till 5th September 2021.However, India will be participating in nine sporting events and 43 athletes will represent the country.

Let's take a better look at the schedule of Indian Athletes in the Paralympic 2020.

India's Schedule at Tokyo Paralympics 2020:

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The Paralympic was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and will now be played from August 24th to September 5th in Japan's capital, Tokyo. The disabled athletes will take part in 28 sporting events as Badminton and Taekwondo will make their debut in the games. 

When the exclusion of badminton from the 2026 Commonwealth Games feels like unhealed pain for Indian badminton fans, the shuttles shine at the Japan Para Badminton International 2024 in Tokyo. India concluded their campaign with 24 medals, including six gold, nine silver, and nine bronze.

Sivarajan Solaimalai defeated Chun Yim Wong of Hong Kong in straight games (21-16, 21-16), thus winning the gold medal in the men's single SH6 category.

Manisha Ramadass clinched the gold medal by defeating Japan's Mamiko Toyoda by 21-12, 21-18 in the SU5 women's singles category.

Sukant Kadam, however, defeated his contemporary Indian Tarun Dhillon by 21-12, 21-10 to win the gold in the SL4 Men's Singles Category.

Naveen Sivakumar and Surya Kant won the bronze medals.

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Japan's Fujihara Daisuke defeated Nitesh Kumar in a thrilling three-game contest in the final, with Kumar winning just one in the middle. The scoreboard says 16-21, 21-18, 19-21. Nitesh had to settle for silver

Hardik Makkar too received a silver medal after being defeated by Japan's Taio by 5-21, 19-21 in the SU5 Men's single final. Ruthik Raghupati won a bronze medal in this category.

The other silver came after Coraline Bergeron of France defeated Neeraj in the women's singles SL3 category final.

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Gold haul counts three

Hardik who failed in the SU5 Men's single, partnered with Ruthik and won gold by defeating the Indo-Polish duo Dev Rathi and Bartlomiej Mroz. 

Umesh Vikram Kumar and Surya Kant Yadav won the gold medal in the SL3-SL4 men's double category by defeating their fellow Indians Sukant Kadam and Dinesh Rajaiah 21-5, 20-22, 21-16.

In the D SH6 category, Sudarsan Saravanakumar Mutusamy and Sivarajan Solaimalai won the gold medal.

Alpine skier Mohammad Arif Khan has become the first Indian to compete at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in the slalom event.

Mohammad Arif Khan, from the state of Jammu & Kashmir, primarily takes part in the slalom events. Although he has also competed in the giant slalom in the past.

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Alpine skiing consists of five events: downhill, super G, slalom, giant slalom and combined.

Slalom Skiing is the shortest alpine event, involving skiing between poles or gates. Here skiers need to perform fast turns and rapid changes of direction. Two rounds are held and ranking is established by adding the times of the two runs.

To qualify for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics the average of five best results in the event between the period of July 1, 2019, to January 16, 2022.

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For alpine skiers who have competed in less than five events during this period. They added an extra 20 per cent of the average points . It's added to the International Ski Federation (FIS) points list.

Arif Khan finished ninth, 10th and twice finished 11th in four slalom events over the past week at the Ski Dubai.

The four slalom events in Dubai were the only four competitions. And Mohammad Arif Khan has taken part in during the qualification period.

India had two representatives at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Jagdish Singh competed in the 15km freestyle event. The event of cross-country skiing while Shiva Keshavan took part in the luge.

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will take place from February 4 to 20. The men's slalom event will held on February 16.

Indian men's hockey team drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh was on Monday nominated for the FIH Player of the Year awards. Although, as the country made the short-list of all the categories on the back of its stupendous performance at the Olympics. Veteran India custodian P R Sreejesh was among three short-lists for Goalkeeper of the Year award for men. Moreover, while Savita Punia was among three short-listes in the women's category. The Indian men's team head coach Graham Reid and women's team counterpart Sjoerd Marijne were among three nominees for FIH Coach of the Year award for men and women.

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Harmanpreet Singh had scored a whopping six goals from eight matches from his drag-flick to help the Indian men's team clinch a historic bronze. Moreover, its first Olympic medal in 41 years. Argentine players Agustina Albertarrio and Agustina Gorzelany. And Dutchwomen Eva de Goede, Frederique Matla and Maria Verschoor were the others nominated for the FIH Player of the Year for women.

Besides Harmanpreet, Arthur van Doren and Alexander Hendrickx from gold winners Belgium. And Jake Whetton, Aran Zalewski and Tim Brand of silver winners Australia were nominates for FIH Player of the Year for men. Apart from Sreejesh, Vincent Vanasch of Belgium and Andrew Charter of Australia were nominates for Goalkeeper of the Year Award for Men.

Votes from National Associations count for 50 per cent of the overall result.

Among women, Maddie Hinch of Great Britain and Belen Succi of Argentina were nominates for the Goalkeeper of the Year Award, along with Savita. India's Sharmila Devi was also nominates for FIH Rising Star of the Year Award for women. Along with Fiona Crackles (Great Britain) and Valentina Raposo (Argentina). While Vivek Prasad names were also came along with Mustaphaa Cassiem (South Africa) and Sean Findlay (New Zealand) among men.

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Reid was also nominates along with Shane McLeod (Belgium team) and Colin Batch (Australia). Also while Sjoerd Marijne was also shotlists along with Alyson Annan (Netherlands team) and Mark Hager (Great Britain team) for their roles in charge of their respective women's teams. Players, coaches, media and fans can register their votes for the nominees. However, they can cast their vote in the respective women's and men's player, goalkeeper, rising star and coach of the year categories. They can register their votes from Monday (August 23) to September 15, the FIH said in a release.

Each NA will grant two votes per gender, which will come from the national team captain and head coach. Votes from the media counts for 25 per cent of the overall result. While votes from fans/players counts for 25 per cent of the overall result. The winners will be announced either next month or early October. With no Hockey Stars Awards in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 global health pandemic. But, this year's awards cover the period from January 2020 through to the conclusion of the Tokyo Olympics.

In an exclusive interview to PTI, Lovlina, who clinched the welterweight (69kg) bronze, spoke about the hardships she endured to get where she is. However, the joy of watching the triumph of human spirit at the Games was great. Also, how her regular life now becomes much more eventful thanks to overnight fam.

The 23-year-old is from the tiny Baro Mukhia village of Assam's Golaghat district. Moreover, She became only the third Indian boxer to finish with medals at the Olympic podium. She joins two of the biggest icons in Indian boxing. She joins six time world champion M C Mary Kom and the very talented Vijender Singh. Also Lovlina had vowed to touch upon her sacrifices only after her campaign was over and she did exactly that.

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"My first sacrifice was to stay away from my home for the past eight years and not being there for my family in times of their problems and watching from a distance. This is the biggest sacrifice," She said. "I worked hard for a gold medal, so it is a bit disappointing,'' Lovlina said after the bout.

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She had the time of her life in Tokyo with a medal on Olympic debut. After being icing on the cake, the Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain says all of it is "done and dusted now". Moreover, She will start a fresh in every aspect of her game for the Paris edition in 2024. However, Lovlina lost 5-0 in the welterweight (69kg) Semi finals to world champion Busenaz Surmeneli.

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have come and gone. Overall, 339 medals were handed out across 33 sports events. Moreover, team USA was the big winner collecting one-third of all of the medals that were awarded. The record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics is 83, which the United States achieved at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

However, Thirty-three sports have been completed during the time span of 17 days. Moreover, all the events are complete in empty stadiums of Tokyo among the coronavirus threat. Although, the USA tops the medals table followed by China and Japan. The USA secured 113 medals overall with 39 Golds. On the other hand, China grabs a total of 88 medals to secure 2nd position at the medals table. However, the hosts, Japan completes with 58 medals & remains at no 3 spots. Great Britain completes with a total of 65 medals including 22 Golds. ROC finishes at no 5 spots of Tokyo Olympics 2020.

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Moreover, Australia grabs a total of 46 medals with 17 Golds to finish at no 6. on the other hand, Netherlands finishes at no 7 spots with 36 medals. Although, France grabs the no 8 spot in the Olympic medals table. Germany finishes with 37 medals at no 9. However, Italy finishes in the 10th spot at the Olympics medals table.
Though India finishes at 48th in Tokyo Olympics medals table. But this was India's best Olympic campaign ever not just in terms of numbers but with some crucial positive results.

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However, Let's have a better look at the Final Medals table of Tokyo Olympics 2020.

Final Medals Table of Tokyo Olympics 2020

India started their campaign with a Silver medal from weightlifter Mirabai Chanu and they ended their campaign with a historic gold medal. However, their first-ever in track and field came when Neeraj Chopra won the Men's Javelin gold on August 8.