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Paralympics 2024 –
The 2024 Summer Paralympics is just over now. This time the event was organised in Paris, France from 28th August to 8th September. This is India’s 13th appearance at the Paralympics. China ranked top in the medal tally with 94 Gold, 76 Silver , 50 Bronze and 220 medals in total. Great Britain ranked second with 49 Gold, 44 Silver , 31 Bronze and 124 medals in total. The United States of America ranked third with 36 Gold, 42  Silver, 27 Bronze and 105 medals in total.   

       Total 84 competitors from India participated in 12 sports . Bhagyashree Yadav and Sumit Antil were the flag bearers in the opening ceremony . India ranked 18th in the medal tally with 7 Gold, 9 Silver , 13 Bronze and  29 medals in total . It is India’s best performance ever in any Paralympics.

The Gold 🥇 medals winners are –

1 . Avani Lekhara – Shooting – Women’s R2 10 m air rifle standing SH1
2. Kumar Nitesh – Badminton – Men’s Singles SL3
3. Sumit Antil – Athletics – Men’s Javelin F64
4. Harvinder Singh – Archery – Individual recurve open
5. Dharamvir Nain – Athletics -Club throw F51
6. Praveen Kumar – Athletics – High jump T64
7. Navdeep Singh – Athletics – Javelin F41

The Silver 🥈 medals winners are –
1 . Manish Narwal – Shooting – Men’s P1 10m air pistol SH1
2. Nishad Kumar – Athletics – Men’s High jump T47
3. Yogesh Kathunia – Athletics – Men’s Discus throw F56
4. Thulasimathi Murugesan – Badminton – Women’s singles SU5
5. Suhas Yathiraj – Badminton – Men’s singles SL4
6. Ajeet Singh Yadav- Athletics – Javelin F46
7. Sharad Kumar – Athletics – High jump T63
8. Sachin Khilari – Athletics – Men’s Shot put F46
9. Pranav Soorma – Athletics – Club throw F51

The Bronze 🥉 medals winners are –
1 . Mona Agarwal – Shooting – Women’s R2 10 m air rifle standing SH1
2. Preethi Pal – Athletics – Women’s 100 m T35
3. Rubina Francis – Shooting – Women’s P2 10 m air pistol SH1
4. Preethi Pal – Athletics – Women’s 200 m T35
5. Manisha Ramadasd – Badminton 🏸 – Women’s singles SU5
6. Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar – Archery 🏹 – Mixed team compound
7. Nithya Shivan – Badminton – Women’s singles SH6
8. Deepthi Jeevanji – Athletics – Women’s 400 m T20
9. Mariyappan Thangavelu – Athletics – Men’s High jump T63
10. Sundar Singh Gurjar – Athletics – Men’s Javelin F46
11. Kapil Parmar – Judo – Men’s J1 – 60 kg
12. Hokato Hotoze Sema – Athletics – Men’s Shot put F57
13. Simran Sharma – Athletics – Women’s 200 m T12

Avani Lekhara won second consecutive Gold medals in Paralympics and she is the first Indian woman athlete to win multiple medals at Paralympics . Sumit Antil is now the first Indian male athlete to win consecutive Paralympics Gold medals in the same event. Harvinder Singh won India’s first ever Paralympics Gold medal in Archery. Sheetal Devi is now the youngest Indian Paralympics medalist. Deepti Jeevanji is now India’s youngest track medalist. Preethi Pal achieved India’s first ever track medal in athletics and she is now the only Indian to win multiple medals in a single Paralympics. Kapil Parmar’s medal in Judo is India’s first ever medal in this event. Mariyappan Thangavelu is now the first Indian to win a medal in three consecutive Paralympics . He won the Gold medal in High jump at Rio 2016, Silver at Tokyo 2020 and this time won a Bronze medal .

The flag bearers for India in the closing ceremony were Preethi Pal and Harvinder Singh .

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A . Read the passage given above and answer the questions below – 1×4=4

1 . How many competitors from India participated in the Paralympics 2024 ?

2. Who achieved a medal for India in three consecutive Paralympics?

3. Which country got the most medals in 2024 ?

4. Who became the first Indian woman to win multiple medals in Paralympics?


B. Answer the questions in brief – 2×2=4

1 . Who were the flag bearers for India in the opening ceremony?  2



2. Who were the flag bearers for India in the closing ceremony ?  2



C. Fill in the blanks with information from the passage – 1×5=5

1 . ———————– is the first Indian to win multiple medals in a single Paralympics.

2. ———————- win India’s first ever medal in Judo.

3. Harvinder Singh won India’s first ever Paralympics Gold in ——————.

4. The Paralympics 2024 was hosted ————————-.

5.  Now India’s youngest track medalist in Paralympics is —————————-.


D. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements and provide supporting statement for your answers – 2×3=6

1 . India participated twelve times in the Paralympics before this time.

Supporting Statement –


2. Sumit Antil  won a Gold medal also in the previous Paralympics games .

Supporting Statement –


3. M. Thangavelu won a Gold medal in the Tokyo  2020 Paralympics.

Supporting Statement –




E. Choose a suitable title for the passage and provide supporting reason to choose the title.     2





F . Grammatical Skill-   1×4=25

1 . Sheetal Devi is now India’s youngest Paralympics medalist.   ( Change to Comparative Degree )



2. Preethi Pal achieved India’s first ever track medal in athletics.  ( Change to Passive Voice)



3. India finished the competition by 7 Gold medals.    (Find out the mistake and make the sentence correct )



4. It is India’s best performance in the Paralympics. ( Change to Positive Degree )



Writing Skills –

1 . Write a newspaper report based on the performance of India in the Paralympics
2024 .     10





2. Write a short paragraph on India and Paralympics 2024 .     10