Kapil Parmar clinches unexpected judo bronze as India’s Paralympic tally hits 25
Simran in 100m (T12) final
Continuing her good form, Indian sprinter Simran advanced to the women’s 100m (T12) final after clocking 12.33sec in the semifinal race here.
Accompanied by her guide Abhay Singh, the 24-year-old reigning world champion from New Delhi finished second behind Germany’s Katrin Mueller-Rottgardt in semifinal 2.
Simran, who was born prematurely with visual impairment, was ranked third overall in the semis.
She will now compete in the four-sprinter final scheduled for later tonight.
Heartbreak in archery
Individual gold-medallist Harvinder Singh and his partner Pooja Jatyan looked good for a mixed team recurve open bronze but it was not to be as the duo lost a shoot-off to Slovenia’s Ziva Lavrinc and Dejan Fabcic 4-5 inthe play-off.
It was an opportunity for Harvinder to script some more history after becoming India’s first archery gold-medallist on Wednesday.
The Indian led 4-2 going into the final set but lost the plot thereafter, allowing the Slovenian combination to first draw level before closing the match in the shoot-off.
Hailing from a family of farmers from Haryana, the 33-year-old Harvinder was just one and a half years old, when he contracted dengue and due to the side effects of some injections administered to him, his legs were left impaired.
Pooja, 27, had on Tuesday lost out in the individual quarterfinals.
In 1997, when she was just two months old, Pooja became a victim of medical negligence when she was administered a wrong injection for high fever, resulting in polio in her left leg.
Shooters off target yet again
In Chateauroux, Indian shooters failed to make the final of the mixed 50m rifle prone (SH1) competition.
Mona Agarwal, 36, the winner of the bronze medal in the 10m air rifle (SH1) competition at the Games, finished 30th with an aggregate of 610.5 across six series.
Sidhartha Babu, who had ended 28th in the mixed 10m air rifle prone (SH1) qualification a few days back, too could not raise the level of his game to finish 22nd with a total of 615.8.