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Paralympics 2016 medal count india. Wrestler sakshi malik wins bronze medal, india open their account at rio. On august 8, 2016 paralympic committee of india has announced a list of 19 athletes (16 men, 3 women) to be part of rio 2016 games for india in 5 sports, thus making it india's largest ever. The nation's most successful outing was at the 2016 rio games when it.

India have won 12 medals at the paralympics thus far. Rahul sadhu / tnn / sep 19, 2016, 00:00 ist aa at the rio paralympics 2016 the indian medal winners have been lauded for their haul — two gold, one silver and one bronze. 2 who won gold medal in paralympics 2016.

Having competed in 11 editions of the paralympic games since its introduction in 1960, india have won 31 medals, including nine gold, 12 silver and 10 bronze. On nationalsportsday take a look at india s performance at the global sporting stage upsc ias ips dream national sports day paralympic games sports day. Among them are four gold, four silver and four bronze.

In rio 2016, the number of athletes representing india at the paralympics was 19, spread across five sports. At the top of the table is china with 119 medals including 54. After a glorious day at the games, india find themselves at the 26th place with 2 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze medal.

India won its first medal at the paralympics in the 1972 games when murlikant petkar won a gold medal in swimming. Now let us look at the medals. India won only 12 medals from 1968 to 2016, return home with 19 from tokyo paralympics india won as many as 5 gold medals to finish inside the top 25 in the medal table india won 8.

India finished with a total of 19 medals with five gold, eight silver and six bronze medals at the tokyo paralympics. It took 32 years for the nation to win its next gold medal which came courtsey devendra in the athens games. By the time this edition ended our tally was 31.