♦ Harvinder Singh won a gold medal in the men’s archery individual recurve open final at the Paris Paralympics on 4 September 2024. In the final, he defeated Poland’s Lukasz Ciszek 6-0 (28-24, 28-27, 29-25).
♦ Harvinder became the first and only Indian archer to clinch a gold medal at the Paralympics.
♦ Harvinder clinched a bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. He won a gold medal in the men’s individual recurve open event at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta. In 2023, Harvinder was a part of the team which won a bronze medal in the men’s doubles recurve event at the Asian Para Games in Hangzhou.
♦ Harvinder hails from Kaithal, Haryana, had dengue when he was just one-and-half years old and a local doctor administered him an injection that had an adverse effect and his legs stopped working properly.
Posted Date: September 4, 2024Sports
♦ The Indian pair of Gautami Bhanot and Ajay Malik clinched the bronze medal at the ISSF Junior World Championship 2024 in Lima, Peru on 30 September 2024. They defeated Croatia’s Anamarija Turk and Darko Tomasevic 17-9 in the 10m air pistol mixed team bronze medal match. China and France won the gold and silver medals respectively.
♦ In the 10m mixed air pistol event, the battle for bronze was between two Indian teams, as Lakshita and Parmod beat Kanishka Dagar and Mukesh Nelavalli 16-8.
Germany and Ukraine clinched the gold and silver medals respectively.
♦ The Indian junior men's trio of Umesh Choudhary, Pradhyumn Singh and Mukesh Nelavalli clinched the gold medal at the ISSF Junior World Championship 2024 in Lima, Peru, on 29 September.
♦ The trio stood at the top spot with a combined score of 1726 points. Romania (1716) and Italy (1707) were ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively.
♦ Mean while, The combination of Kanishka Dagar, Lakshita and Anjali Chaudhary tallied 1708 to clinch the junior women’s 10m air pistol team gold. Azerbaijan (1707) and Ukraine (1704) were ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively.
♦ Over 560 shooters from 51 countries will participate in the ISSF Junior World Championship 2024. India is fielding 61 shooters in the competition which ends on October 6.
♦ The last edition of the ISSF Junior World Championship was held in Changwon in 2023. India had finished with 17 medals, including six gold, six silver and five bronze.
Posted Date: September 30, 2024♦ India’s Gulveer Singh won the gold medal in the men’s 5,000 meters race at the World Athletics Continental Tour in Japan on 28 September 2024.
♦ He create a new national record with a time of 13 minutes and 11.82 seconds.
♦ This broke his own previous record of 13 minutes and 18.92 seconds, which he had set earlier this year (2024).
♦ Japan’s Mebuki Suzuki took second place with a personal best of 13:13.80. Another Japanese runner, Kotaro Shinohara, took third place with a time of 13:15.70.
♦ In March 2024, Gulveer broke the men’s 10,000m record at the Ten Track Meet in California.
♦ He crossed the finish line in 27 minutes and 41.81 seconds, and in doing so, he improved on Surender Singh’s old mark of 28 minutes and 02.89 seconds, set nearly 16 years ago in 2008.
Posted Date: September 30, 2024♦ Indian duo Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Vijay Sundar Prashanth won the ATP 250 Hangzhou Open 2024 title on 24 September 2024. They defeated German pair Constantin Frantzen and Hendrik Jebens in the men’s doubles final in China.
♦ For Jeevan, this is his second ATP title, with his last win dating back to the 2017 Chennai Open alongside Rohan Bopanna. For Vijay, this marks his first title on the ATP circuit.
Posted Date: September 24, 2024♦ The Indian men’s and women’s chess teams created history by winning gold medals at the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary on 22 September 2024. In the 11th and final round match, won 3.5-0.5 against Slovenia, taking its tally to 21 points, out of the possible 22.
♦ In the last round of the women’s event too, India scored a 3.5-0.5 victory over Azerbaijan. There were wins for D. Harika, Divya Deshmukh and Vantika Agrawal and the only player to draw was R. Vaishali.
♦ In 2022, India had won the bronze in both the Open and the Women’s when the Olympiad was held at Mamallapuram, near Chennai. In the Open section, it was India’s second team that had won the medal.
♦ In the 45th Chess Olympiad India won the following gold medals:
♦ Open event gold: India
♦ Women’s event gold: India
♦ Gold on Board 1 (Open): D Gukesh
♦ Gold on Board 3 (Open): Arjun Erigaisi
♦ Gold on Board 3 (Women): Divya Deshmukh
♦ Gold on Board 4 (Women): Vantika Agarwal
♦ India’s Dhanush Loganathan won the bronze medal an the IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships 2024 in Leon, Spain on 20 September 2024. In the men’s 55kg event Dhanush lifted a total of 231kg (107 snatch+124kg clean and jerk) for bronze. Vietnam’s K Duong won the gold medal for lifting 253kg (115kg+140kg) and Japan’s Kotaro Tomari, clinched the silver medal for a total of 247kg (108kg+139kg).
♦ Medals at the junior World Weightlifting Championships 2024 are awarded separately in snatch, clean and jerk and total categories.
♦ Dhanush also clinched a bronze medal in the snatch and finished 13th in the clean and jerk.
♦ The Indian weightlifting contingent at the Junior World Championships for the under-21 weightlifters includes three men and six women. Payal (women’s 45kg) and Panchami Sonowal (women’s 49kg) also competed today but could not win medals.
♦ In 2023, Dhanush bagged the bronze medal in the men's 49kg weight division at the Weightlifting Youth World Championships in Albania, lifting a total of 200kg (88kg+112kg).
♦ In 2022, Dhanush won his second successive youth gold medal at the National Weightlifting Championships and a youth bronze at the Asian Championships in Tashkent.
♦ The Indian men’s hockey team won the Asian Champions Trophy 2024 at the Moqi Hockey Training Base in Hulunbuir on 17 September 2024.
♦ Indian team defeated the People’s Republic of China 1-0 in the final.
♦ Till now India clinched the five Asian Champions titles - 2011, 2016, 2018 (shared with Pakistan), 2023 and 2024.
♦ The first edition of the Asian Men's Hockey Champions Trophy was played in 2011. India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and China participated in the inaugural tournament.
♦ Hockey India have announced a reward of Rs.3 lakh to every player, while Rs.1.5 lakh will be awarded to every support staff member.
♦ Awards winner of Tournament
♦ Top Goal Scorer of the Tournament: Yang Jihun (9 Goals) – Korea
♦ Promising Goalkeeper of the Tournament: Kim Jaehan – Korea
♦ Best Goalkeeper of the Tournament: Wang Caiyu – China
♦ Rising Star of the Tournament: Hanan Shahid – Pakistan
♦ Player of the Tournament: Harmanpreet Singh – India
Posted Date: September 18, 2024♦ India’s badminton star Anmol Kharb secured her first senior international title by winning the women’s singles event at the Belgian International 2024 in Leuven.
♦ She defeated Denmark's Amalie Schulz 24-22, 12-21, 21-10 in the final.
♦ In 2023, Anmol became the women’s singles national badminton champion.
Posted Date: September 17, 2024♦ Neeraj Chopra finished second in the Diamond League (DL) final with a throw of 87.86 meters in Brussels. Granada's Anderson Peters claimed the crown with a 87.87m effort. Julian Weber of Germany was third with 85.97m.
♦ Chopra had clinched the DL trophy in 2022.
♦ Italy's Jannik Sinner won US Open 2024 Men's Singles title on 9 September 2024. He defeated Amecica's Taylor Fritz in the final at Arthur Ashe Stadium, New York. This is his second career Grand Slam title in 2024.
♦ World number one Sinner won his maiden Slam at the Australian Open in January 2024.
♦ He became the first Italian man to win the US Open Singles Title.
Posted Date: September 9, 2024Paris Paralympics was concluded on 8 September 2024. Indian para-athletes have secured a record-breaking total of 29 medals, including seven gold, nine silver, and 13 bronze. This achievement surpasses the country’s best 19 medals tally at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, marking a new era in Indian para-sports.
A total of 84 Indian para-athletes participated across 12 disciplines, an increase from the nine disciplines in Tokyo 2020. New events for India at the Paris Games included paracycling, para rowing, and blind judo.
♦ India’s Medalists at the Paris 2024 Paralympics:
♦ Avani Lekhara (Shooting, Women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1, Gold)
♦ Mona Agarwal (Shooting, Women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1, Bronze)
♦ Preethi Pal (Athletics, Women’s 100m T35, Bronze)
♦ Manish Narwal (Shooting, Men’s 10m air pistol SH1, Silver)
♦ Rubina Francis (Shooting, Women’s 10m Air Pistol SH1, Bronze)
♦ Preethi Pal (Shooting, Women’s 10m Air Pistol SH1, Bronze)
♦ Nishad Kumar (Athletics, Men’s high jump T47, Silver)
♦ Yogesh Kathuniya (Athletics, Men’s discus throw F56, Silver)
♦ Nitesh Kumar (Badminton, Men’s singles SL3, Gold)
♦ Thulasimathi Murugesan (Badminton, Women’s singles SU5, Silver)
♦ Manisha Ramadass (Badminton, Women’s singles SU5, Bronze)
♦ Suhas Yathiraj (Badminton, Men’s singles SL4, Silver)
♦ Rakesh Kumar / Sheetal Devi (Archery, Mixed team compound open, Bronze)
♦ Sumit Antil (Athletics, Javelin throw F64, Gold)
♦ Nithya Sre Sivan (Badminton, Women’s singles SH6, Bronze)
♦ Deepthi Jeevanji (Athletics, Women’s 400m T20, Bronze)
♦ Mariyappan Thangavelu (Athletics, Men’s high jump T63, Bronze)
♦ Sharad Kumar (Athletics, Men’s high jump T63, Silver)
♦ Ajeet Singh (Athletics, Men’s javelin throw F46, Silver)
♦ Sundar Singh Gurjar (Athletics, Men’s javelin throw F46, Bronze)
♦ Sachin Khilari (Athletics, Men’s shot put F46, Silver)
♦ Harvinder Singh (Archery, Men’s individual recurve open, Gold)
♦ Dharambir (Athletics, Men’s club throw F51, Gold)
♦ Parnav Soorma (Athletics, Men’s club throw F51, Silver)
♦ Kapil Parmar (Judo, Men’s -60kg J1, Bronze)
♦ Praveen Kumar (Athletics, Men’s high jump T64, Gold)
♦ Hokato Hotozhe Sema (Athletics, Men’s shot put F57, Bronze)
♦ Simran (Athletics, Women’s 200m T12, Bronze)
♦ Navdeep Singh (Athletics, Men’s javelin throw F41, Gold)
♦ Simran Sharma won a bronze medal in women’s 200m T12 event at Paris Paralympics on 7 September 2024. Simran clocked a new personal best timing of 24.75s to finish third. Cuba’s Omara Durand Elias took the gold in 23.62s while Venezuela’s Alejandra Paola Perez Lopez won silver, clocking 24.19s.
♦ T12 is the category for athletes with vision impairment.
Posted Date: September 7, 2024♦ Navdeep Singh won a gold with a personal best of 47.32m in the men’s javelin throw F41 class at Paris Paralympics on 7 September 2024. This marks the first-ever gold medal in the men's javelin F41 category. China's Sun Pengxiang settled for a silver with a best throw of 44.72m. Wildan Nukhailawi of Iraq won the bronze medal with 40.46m.
♦ Navdeep’s medal-winning throw eclipsed the previous Paralympic record of 47.13m, set by Sun Pengxiang of the People’s Republic of China at Tokyo 2020.
♦ Athletes with a short stature compete in the F41 sport class.
Posted Date: September 7, 2024♦ Indian judoka Kapil Parmar secured a bronze medal at the Paris Paralympics on 5 September 2024. He defeated Brazil’s Elielton de Oliveira in the men’s -60kg J1 contest. Kapil became the first Indian to win a Paralympic medal in judo.
♦ Athletes with vision impairment are classified under the J1 category. They can see much less detail than someone with normal vision.
♦ The judo bronze on Thursday was India’s 25th medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympics.
♦ Kapil hails from Shivor village in Madhya Pradesh. When he was a child, he accidentally touched an open wire near a water pump while playing in the fields, suffering a severe electric shock. The incident affected Kapil's vision.
Posted Date: September 5, 2024♦ Dharambir clinched the gold medal in the men's F51 event at the Paris Paralympics on 4 September 2024. He hurled the club to a distance of 34.92m to claim the top spot. His compatriot Pranav Soorma clinched the silver with a throw of 34.59m. Serbia's Filip Graovac bagged the bronze, courtesy of a 34.18m throw.
♦ Dharambir is the fifth Indian to have won gold while Soorma is India's ninth silver medallist in Paris.
♦ Dharambir was left paralysed from the waist down. He had earlier won silver at the Asian Para Games in Hangzhou in early 2022.
♦ Soorma was 16 when when a cement sheet fell on his head, causing a severe spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed. His achievements include a silver medal at the 2019 Beijing Grand Prix, a gold medal at the Serbia Open 2023, and both gold and silver medals at the Tunisia Grand Prix 2022. At the Asian Para Games 2023, Pranav set a record with a 30.01m throw in the men's club throw F51 event, earning a gold medal.
Posted Date: September 4, 2024♦ Deepthi Jeevanji won the bronze medal in the women’s 400m T20 final with a timing of 55.82s at the Paris Paralympics on 3 September 2024. She became the first intellectually impaired Indian athlete to win a Paralympic medal. Ukraine’s Yulia Shuliar (55.16s) and Turkiye's Ayser Onder (55.23s) clinched the gold, and silver medals respectively.
♦ The T20 class is reserved for athletes with intellectual impairments. Deepthi is India’s first-ever athlete in this category to compete at the Paralympic Games, faces cognitive challenges that affect her communication and understanding skills.
Posted Date: September 3, 2024Indian shuttler Suhas Yathiraj clinched the silver in the men’s singles badminton SL4 class at the Paris 2024 Paralympics on 2 September 2024. This is his second successive Paralympics silver medal. He won a medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.
Posted Date: September 2, 2024♦ Sumit Antil won the gold medal in the men’s javelin throw F64 class at Paris 2024 on 2 September 2024. He became the first Indian male para-athlete to defend his title in the Paralympics. He achieved the feat with a new Paralympic record of 70.59m at the Stade de France.
♦ He also clinched the gold medal in Tokyo in 2020. Sumit also holds the world record of 73.29 in the F64 class.
♦ India’s badminton player, Nitesh Kumar won a gold medal at the Paris Paralympics on 2 September 2024. He defeated Daniel Bethell of Great Britain in the men's singles SL3 final.
♦ This is India's second gold at the Paris Paralympics. Shooter Avani Lekhra had previously captured gold in the women’s 10m air rifle event.
♦ SL3 is a classification for players who have moderate mobility challenges on one side of their body, both legs or due to limb absence.
♦ This is India's third Paralympic medal in badminton. All of India's badminton medals at the Paralympics have been gold. In the 2020 Tokyo Games, Pramod Bhagat (SL3) and Krishna Nagar (SH6) clinched top podiums.
♦ Hockey India announced that the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024 hockey tournament will be hosted in Rajgir, Bihar, from November 11-20. The tournament will take place at the newly constructed Rajgir Hockey Stadium. Teams from China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand will participate in this event.
♦ The 2023 Women’s Asian Champions Trophy was also played in India in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The Indian women’s hockey team beat Japan 4-0 in the final at the Jaipal Singh Stadium to win their second Women’s Asian Champions Trophy hockey title. The People’s Republic of China finished third.
♦ The Republic of Korea, the inaugural Women’s Asian Champions Trophy winners, are a record three-time champions (2010, 2011 and 2018). India and Japan have won two titles each. The Indian team also made the final in the 2013 and 2018 editions.
♦ Meanwhile, the Asian Champions Trophy 2024 men’s hockey tournament is set to start on September 8 in Hulunbuir, the People’s Republic of China.
♦ Preethi Pal bagged a bronze in the women’s 200 T35 class at Paris 2024 Paralympics on 1 September 2024. She clocked a personal best timing of 30.01s in the final to take the third position. She had won a bronze in the women’s 100m T35 class earlier for India’s first-ever Paralympic medal in a track event. She became the first Indian woman to win two Paralympic medals in track and field events.
♦ Xia Zhou and Guo Qianqian of the People’s Republic of China bagged the gold and silver medal, respectively, in the 200m event. Xia Zhou completed the race in 28.15s while Guo Qianqian registered a personal best of 29.09s.
♦ India’s Nishad Kumar won a silver medal in the men’s high jump T47 class at the Paris 2024 Paralympics on 1 September 2024. He soared to a height of 2.04m in the final. USA’s Roderick Townsend won the gold medal with a score of 2.12m and Georgii Margiev settled for bronze with a jump of 2.00m.
♦ This was Nishad Kumar’s second Paralympic medal. He won the silver medal at Tokyo 2020 with a clearance of 2.06m behind Townsend back then as well.
