Prachi Yadav on Tuesday became the first Indian to win a gold medal in para canoeing (sail sailing) at the Asian Para Games. He won a medal for the country for the second day in a row. India won 18 medals, including four golds, on the second day of the competition on Tuesday. With this, the total number of medals in the country has increased to 35. India won 17 medals, including six golds, on the first day of the Games on Monday. India is behind China (155), Iran (44) and Uzbekistan (38) in the table with 10 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze.
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Prachi, who won a silver medal in the canoeing VL2 category on Monday, bagged her second medal of the Games by winning the gold medal in the KL2 event. Deepti Jeevanji (Women’s T20 400m), Sharath Shankarappa Makanhalli (Men’s T13 5000m) and Neeraj Yadav (Men’s F54/55/56 Discus Throw) were the other gold medal winners on Tuesday.
28-year-old Prachi, who is paralyzed from the waist down, clocked 54.962 seconds to cover the 500m distance in the KL2 event. In this class, athletes propel themselves using their arms and upper body. She is a resident of Gwalior.
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After this, Deepti won the gold medal in the 400m race in the women’s T20 category. In this event for intellectually challenged athletes, Deepti set a Games and Asian record with a time of 56.69 seconds.
Makanhalli won the 5000 meters for visually impaired runners with a time of 20:18.90. As only two athletes participated in this event, only one gold medal was awarded.
Indians won all three medals in men’s F54/55/56 discus throw event. In which Neeraj Yadav won the gold medal with an Asian record distance of 38.56 meters. Yogesh Kathunia (42.13m) and Muthuraja (35.06m) finished second and third respectively.
Ravi Rongali (Men’s F40 Shot Put), Pramod (Men’s T46 1500m), Ajay Kumar (Men’s T64 400m) and Simran Sharma (Women’s T12 100m) won one silver medal each from the track events. Rakesh Bhaira won the bronze medal in the men’s T46 1500m event.
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In para shooting, Rudraksh Khandelwal and Manish Narwal won silver and bronze medals respectively in the P1 men’s 10m air pistol SH1 event, while Rubina Francis won the bronze medal in the P2 women’s 10m air pistol SH1 category. Prachi’s husband Manish Kaurav (Men’s KL3 Dinghy) was also among the bronze medal winners of the day. Apart from them, Ashok (men’s 65 kg powerlifting), Gajendra Singh (men’s VL2 canoe) and Ekta Bhaan (women’s F32/51 club throw) also won bronze medals.