India’s Schedule At Paralympics 2024, August 29: Sheetal Devi, Suhas Yathiraj In Motion

Decided to return with their best-ever haul within the Paralympic Video games, India’s biggest-ever contingent for the mega occasion will launch a historic marketing campaign in French Capital on Thursday with motion beginning in badminton, archery and desk tennis. India’s archers, shuttlers and paddlers will get into motion on the opening day of competitors, getting via the preliminary rounds.

The 16-year-old para-archer Sheetal Devi can be among the many first Indian individuals to take the sector for the Ladies’s Particular person Compound Open Rating Spherical together with compatriot Sarita. Sheetal, the surprise archer who shoots arrows in bullseye with ease utilizing her legs and mouth, gained two gold and one silver medal within the Asian Para Video games in Hangzhou final 12 months. 

Within the males’s compound archery, India’s Rakesh Kumar, who had narrowly missed a medal within the Tokyo Paralympic Video games, is hoping to bag his maiden medal in Paris and also will begin his marketing campaign within the males’s particular person compound open rating spherical. Additionally beginning their campaigns can be Harvinder Singh in males’s recurve particular person, Shyam Sundar Swami in males’s compound particular person and Pooja in girls’s recurve open particular person.

The highest Indian medal contenders can even get into motion in para-badminton with Sukant Kadam, Manoj Sarkar, Suhas Yathiraj, Manasi Joshi, Tarun Dhillon, Nitesh Kumar, Thulasimathi Murugesan, Manish Ramdass and Palak Kohli enjoying their respective Group Stage matches.

India’s major hope in para-taekwondo, Aruna Tanwar can be getting onto the mat within the Ladies’s K44-47 kg part. She is going to begin her marketing campaign with a Spherical of 16 stage conflict with Nurcihan Ekinci of Turkey. If she wins her first match, she is going to progress additional to the quarterfinals.

1. Para Badminton 

Blended Doubles SL3-SU5 (Group Stage)

Nitesh Kumar/Murugesan Thulasimathi vs Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj/Palak Kohli (12 PM)

Blended Doubles SH6 (Group Stage)

Sivarajam Solaimalai/Nithye Sre Sumathy (Not earlier than: 12:40 PM )

Ladies’s Singles SL3 (Group Stage)

Mandeep Kaur

Manasi Joshi

(Not earlier than 2 PM)

Males’s Singles SL4 (Group Stage)

Sukant Kadam (Not earlier than 2:40 PM)

Suhas Lalinakere Yathira (Not earlier than 3:20 PM)

Tarun (Not earlier than 3:20 PM)

Males’s Singles SL3 (Group play)

Nitesh Kumar vs Manoj Sarkar (Not earlier than 4 PM)

2. Para Biking

Jyoti Gaderiya – Ladies’s C1-3 3000m Particular person Pursuit Qualifying (Not earlier than 4:25 PM)

3. Para Archery (From 4:30 PM)

Harvinder Singh – Males’s Particular person Recurve Open (Rating Spherical)

Sarita, Sheetal Devi – Ladies’s Particular person Compound Open (Rating Spherical)

4. Para Badminton

Palak Kohli – Ladies’s Singles SL4 (Group play) – 4:40 PM onwards

Murugesan Thulasimathi – Ladies’s Singles SU5 (Group play) – 5:20 PM onwards

Sivarajam Solaimalai – Males’s Singles SH6 (Group play) – 7:30 PM onwards

Manisha Ramadass – Ladies’s Singles SU5 (Group play) – 7:30 PM onwards

Nithya Sre Sumathy – Ladies’s Singles SH6 (Group play) – 7:30 PM onwards

Krishna Nagar – Males’s Singles SH6 (Group play) – 7:30 PM onwards

5. Para Archery (8:30 onwards)

Shyam Sundar Swami, Rakesh Kumar – 8:30 PM onwards

Pooja – Ladies’s Particular person Recurve Open (Rating Spherical)

Sheetal Devi-Rakesh Kumar, Sarita-Shyam Sundar Swami – Blended crew Compound Open (Rating Spherical) – 8:30 PM onwards

Harvinder Singh-Pooja – Blended crew Recurve Open (Rating Spherical) – 8:30 PM onwards

6. Para Taekwondo

Aruna – Ladies K44 – 47kg – 8:30 PM onwards

7. Para badminton

Nitesh Kumar/Murugesan Thulasimathi – Blended Doubles SL3-SU5 (Group play) – not earlier than 10:10 PM

Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj/Palak Kohli – Blended Doubles SL3-SU5 (Group play) – not earlier than 10:50 PM

With IANS inputs