Tokyo Paralympics: India’s mark in Table Tennis, Powerlifting, Taekwondo

While Bhavna will take part in Wheelchair Class 4 class, Sonalben will compete in Wheelchair Class 3 class in girls’s singles. They may also pair up for the ladies’s doubles occasion.

Bhavina and Sonalben might be in motion on day one with the qualification rounds to be held on August 25, 26 and 27. The semi-finals and last might be held on August 28 and 29.

Bhavina is at present ranked eighth on this planet whereas Sonalben is ranked nineteenth. Both the Asian Games medalists are coaching beneath coach Lalan Doshi on the Blind People’s Association in Ahmedabad.

Only 21-year-old Aruna Tanwar will characterize India in Para Taekwondo. The Haryana athlete, who will compete within the girls’s beneath 49kg K44 class, might be in motion from the spherical of 16 on September 2.

Aruna, at present ranked thirtieth within the K44 class, is a silver medalist on the 2018 Asian Para Taekwondo Championship in Vietnam in addition to a bronze medalist on the 2019 World Para Taekwondo Championship in Turkey.

In para powerlifting, India is sending Jai Deep and Sakina Khatoon.

Born in West Bengal, Sakina is coaching at Sai National Center of Excellence Bangalore, whereas Jai Deep in Haryana is coaching on the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Rohtak.

Sakina, who will compete within the girls’s 50kg class, grew to become the one Indian feminine Paralympian to win a medal on the Commonwealth Games when she gained a bronze medal in Glasgow in 2014. She can be a silver medalist of the 2018 Para Asian Games.

Suffering from polio as a baby, Sakina began powerlifting coaching in 2010 with the monetary assist of Dilip Majumdar and her present coach Farman Basha.

Participating within the males’s 65kg class, Jai Deep is an assistant coach on the Sports Authority of India.

The pair will play their respective last rounds in Tokyo on August 27.

All these athletes are a part of TOPS and have obtained monetary assist from the federal government.