Having witnessed the most successful Olympics ever with 7 medals, India will now field their biggest contingent at the Tokyo Paralympics.
54 athletes are set to compete in 9 sporting disciplines – archery, athletics, badminton, canoeing, shooting, swimming, powerlifting, table tennis and taekwondo.
India’s schedule at the Tokyo Paralympics:
August 25
Table Tennis
Individual C3 - Sonalben Madhubhai Patel
Individual C4 - Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel
August 27
Archery
Men’s Recurve Individual Open - Harvinder Singh, Vivek Chikara
Men’s Compound Individual Open - Rakesh Kumar, Shyam Sundar Swami
Women’s Compound Individual Open - Jyoti Baliyan
Compound Mixed Team Open - Jyoti Baliyan and TBC
Powerlifting
Men’s 65kg - Jaideep Deswal
Women’s 50kg - Sakina Khatun
Swimming
200 Individual Medley SM7 - Suyash Jadhav
August 28
Athletics
Men’s Javelin Throw F57 - Ranjeet Bhati
August 29
Athletics
Men’s Discus Throw F52 - Vinod Kumar
Men’s High Jump T47 - Nishad Kumar, Ram Pal
August 30
Shooting
Men’s R1 – 10 m air rifle standing SH1 - Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar, Deepak Saini
Women’s R2 – 10 m air rifle SH1 - Avani Lekhara
Athletics
Men’s Discus Throw F56 - Yogesh Kathuniya
Men’s Javelin Throw F46 - Sundar Singh Gurjar, Ajeet Singh, Devendra Jhajharia
Men’s Javelin Throw F64 - Sumit Antil, Sandeep Choudhary
August 31
Shooting
Men’s P1 – 10 m air pistol SH1 - Manish Narwal, Deepender Singh, Singhraj
Women’s P2 – 10 m air pistol SH1 - Rubina Francis
Athletics
Men’s High Jump T63 - Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Varun Singh Bhati
Women’s 100m T13 - Simran
Women’s Shot Put F34 - Bhagyashri Madavrao Jadhav
September 1
Badminton
Men’s Singles SL3 - Pramod Bhagat, Manoj Sarkar
Women’s Singles SU5 - Palak Kohli
Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 - Pramod Bhagat & Palak Kohli
Athletics
Men’s Club Throw F51 - Dharambir Nain, Amit Kumar Saroha
September 2
Badminton
Men’s Singles SL4 - Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj, Tarun Dhillon
Men’s Singles SS6 - Krishna Nagar
Women’s Singles SL4 - Parul Parmar
Women’s Doubles SL3-SU5 - Parul Parmar and Palak Kohli
Para Canoeing
Women’s VL2 - Prachi Yadav
Taekwondo
Women’s K44 -49kg - Aruna Tanwar
Shooting
Mixed P3 - 25 m pistol SH1 - Akash & Rahul Jakhar
Athletics
Men’s Shot Put F35 - Arvind Malik
September 3
Swimming
50m Butterfly S7 - Suyash Jadhav, Niranjan Mukundan
Shooting
Men’s R7 - 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 - Deepak Saini
Women’s R8 – 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 - Avani Lekhara
Athletics
Men’s High Jump T64 - Praveen Kumar
Men’s Javelin Throw F54 - Tek Chand
Men’s Shot Put F57 - Soman Rana
Women’s Club Throw F51 - Ekta Bhyan, Kashish Lakra
September 4
Shooting
Mixed R3 – 10 m air rifle prone SH1 - Deepak Saini, Sidhartha Babu & Avani Lekhara
Mixed P4 – 50 m pistol SH1 - Akash, Manish Narwal and Singhraj
Athletics
Men’s Javelin Throw F41 - Navdeep Singh
September 5
Shooting
Mixed R6 – 50 m rifle prone SH1 - Deepak Saini, Avani Lekhara and Sidhartha Babu