Indian Athletes in Action at Asian Para Games on October 21

India will seek another strong showing at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games on Wednesday after collecting 35 medals, including nine gold, across the first two days of competition.

Archery opens the Indian schedule with Sheetal Devi and Payal Nag facing Zhao Jing and Xu Xueqing of China in the para compound women doubles final at 5:55 a.m. IST. Toman Kumar and Shyam Sunder Swami then take on Zhang Yicheng and AI Xinliang in the men’s doubles final at 6:20 a.m. IST.

Athletics features Sujith Mandalamkunnath in the men’s long jump T13 final at 6:02 a.m. IST, followed by Sachin Sarjerao Khilari, Parveen and Mohd. Yasser in the men’s shot put F46 final at 7:45 a.m. IST. Shailesh Kumar and Mahendra Gurjar compete in the men’s long jump T42/T61/T63 final at 3:35 p.m. IST.

Badminton includes men’s singles SL4 quarterfinals for Sukant Kadam against Fredy Setiawan of Indonesia, Surya Kant Yadav against Abhijeet Sakhuja, Suhas Yathiraj against Cho Nadan of South Korea, and Naveen Sivakumar against Shin Kyung Hwan of South Korea. Ruthick Ragupathi and Hardik Makkar play men’s singles SU5 quarterfinals against Li Mingpan of China and Taiyo Imai of Japan respectively.

Boccia sees Anjali Devi face Ladamanee Kla-Han of Thailand in the women’s individual BC3 semifinals at 8:10 a.m. IST, with medal matches from 1:10 p.m. IST. Judo includes Vrushali More versus Wang Yue of China and Gulshan versus Lin Shuming of China in the women’s J2 -70kg quarterfinals, while Dimple competes in women’s J2 +70kg round robin bouts.

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Sources

• Sportstar

• The Bridge

• Photo: Prime Minister's Office, GODL-India (Wikimedia Commons)