Anshul Chavhan

How did Ravi Rongali qualify for the Paralympics from the para-athletics world championship 2024?

Indian media saying Ravi Rongali qualified for the Paris2024 games from this world championship. He finished 6th, how did he qualify? THe rules say only top 2 can qualify from this championship.

Both Saina and Sindhu lost in QFs. Tai bt Sindhu by 21-16 21-16 in 36 mins Marin bt Saina by 21-8 21-7 in 30 mins

South Korea got the quota, All Indian teams finished in last five positions.

Even, I have the same question

Even the results are not available currently. Also, the Thai and Korean teams were AG medalist and the Malaysian team also had a good finish.

So best chances are in Radial, 49er?

No there is no Universality quota in Sailing. The last athlete qualified from India was in 2008.

Badminton could be a big disaster. We will have a good representation but zero hope.

What are India's chances in Sailing. I know we can only qualify via Continental qualifiers. But is there any hope?

The Qualification for India for Tokyo 2020 Paralympics started in last year from 2018 World Shooting Para Sport World Cup, Chateauroux. Manish Narwal and Deepender Singh becomes the first Indian Para Pistol shooter to qualify for the Paralympic games after winning gold and silver medal in P1-Men’s 10m Air Pistol SH1 event. Singhraj later joined them after by securing berth in P4-Mixed 50m Pistol SH1. Avani Lekhera becomes the first female shooter to secure Paralympic berth for India. She secured the berth from 2019 World Shooting Para Sport World Cup, Al Ain in R6-Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1. During 2019 World Archery Para Championships 2019, Harvinder Singh and Vivek Chikara, and Rakesh Kumar and Shyam Sundar Swami secured the quota places in Men's Recurve Individual Open and Men's Compound Individual Open events respectively. They have achieved this feat by finishing in Top 16 in the World Championship. Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar secured another quota in R1-Men's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 evnet from 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships, Sydney. Later Siddhartha Babu also secured quota in R6-Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 event from the same tournament. This is India's biggest ever contingent in Shooting and still one more tournament left for the shooters in 2020. India secured 12 Athletics qualification through World Championship by virtue of finishing in top 4, India had won 9 medals (2 Gold, 2 Silver and 5 Bronze), of which 8 medals were in the Paralympic Games program categories. Vinod Kumar secured the quota in men's discus throw F52 event after finishing 4th. Sandeep Chaudhary and Sumit Antil booked the Paralympic berths in Men's Javelin Throw F64 after winning gold and silver medal in world championship. Both athletes have created new world records in their respective categories. Sunder Singh defended his men's javelin throw F46 world title and secured the Paralympic berth, he was joined by Ajeet Singh (bronze medal) and Rinku Hooda (4th place). Ekta Bhyan finished 4th in women's club throw F51 event and booked a Tokyo 2020 ticket for herself. Yogesh Kathuniya with personal best throw of 42.05m won bronze medal and secured the berth in Men's Discus Throw F56. Praveen Kumar qualified in Men's High Jump T64 after finishing 4th (PB: 1.92). Nishad Kumar won bronze medal in Men's High Jump T47 event with personal best jump of 2.00m and became 20th athlete to qualify for the Paralympic games and India surpassed the previous edition's delegation size. Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thangavelu won silver and bronze medals in high jump T42 event and took India's overall athlete count to 22.

Medalists Medal Name/Team Games Sport Event Gold Murlikant Petkar 1972 Heidelberg Swimming Men's 50m Freestyle 3 Silver Bhimrao Kesarkar / 1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York Athletics Men's Javelin L6 Silver Joginder Singh Bedi / 1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York Athletics Men's Shot Put L6 Bronze Joginder Singh Bedi / 1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York Athletics Men's Javelin L6 Bronze Joginder Singh Bedi / 1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York Athletics Men's Discus Throw L6 Gold Devendra Jhajharia 2004 Athens Athletics Men's Javelin F44/46 Bronze Rajinder Singh Rahelu 2004 Athens Powerlifting Men's 56 kg Silver Girisha Nagarajegowda 2012 London Athletics Men's High Jump F42 Gold Mariyappan Thangavelu 2016 Rio de Janeiro Athletics Men's High Jump F42 Gold Devendra Jhajharia 2016 Rio de Janeiro Athletics Men's Javelin F46 Silver Deepa Malik 2016 Rio de Janeiro Athletics Women's Shot Put F53 Bronze Varun Singh Bhati 2016 Rio de Janeiro Athletics Men's High Jump F42

Games Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1960 Rome did not participate 1964 Tokyo did not participate 1968 Tel Aviv 0 0 0 0 - 1972 Heidelberg 1 0 0 1 25 1976 Toronto did not participate 1980 Arnhem did not participate / 1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York 0 2 2 4 37 1988 Seoul 0 0 0 0 - 1992 Barcelona 0 0 0 0 - 1996 Atlanta 0 0 0 0 - 2000 Sydney 0 0 0 0 - 2004 Athens 1 0 1 2 53 2008 Beijing 0 0 0 0 - 2012 London 0 1 0 1 67 2016 Rio de Janeiro 2 1 1 4 43 Total 4 4 4 12

India will be participating at the Tokyo Paralympics from 25 August to 6 September 2020. India had participated in all the editions of games since 1984. So far officially 22 athletes have secured the berths in 3 sports, which is gonna be India's largest ever delegation in the history.

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