Paralympics- Yogesh gives India 8th medal: Silver in discus throw with a score of 42.22m Suhas-Nitesh in badminton final

Discus thrower Yogesh Kathunia has bagged India's third silver at the Paris Paralympics. On Monday, Day 5, Yogesh scored 42.22 meters in his first throw in the men's discus throw F-56 final. This is his best throw of the season. This is India's 8th medal in the Paris Paralympics. Including 1 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze. Today India can also win medals in badminton, athletics, shooting and archery. India's Nitya Sri Sivan and Sivarajan Solaimalai have lost the bronze medal match in Para Badminton Mixed SH-6 event. Nitesh, Suhas to play gold medal match In para badminton men's SL3, Nitesh Kumar will take on Great Britain's Daniel Bethel, while in SL4, Suhas Yathiraj will play gold medal match against host France's Lucas Mazur. Gold medalist Sumit to play final in Tokyo Sumit Antil, who is representing the country for the second time at the Paralympics, will play the javelin F-64 final today. Apart from Sumit, Sanjay Sandeep and Sandeep from India will also participate in this game. Sumit won gold medal in Tokyo Paralympics. He set a new world record with a javelin throw of 73.29 meters at the Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, China. India won 2 medals late on the fourth day of the Paris Paralympics. Nishad Kumar won the silver medal for India in the high jump event at 1 pm. He finished second with a season's best jump of 2.04m. Earlier, Preeti Pal had won a bronze medal in the women's 200m race. On Sunday, Suhas Yathiraj and Nitesh Kumar made it to the finals of the badminton men's individual event for India. While in women's individual, Manisha Ramdas and Nitya Sreesivan made it to the semi-finals. Rakesh Kumar lost the bronze medal match in compound archery. Before him, Avni Lekhra and Siddharth Babu were eliminated from the qualification round in the 10m mixed air rifle. India has won 7 medals so far India got 2 medals on the fourth day of the Paris Paralympics. Nishad Kumar won the silver medal in T-47 category of men's high jump. At the same time, Preeti Pal bagged her sixth medal by winning bronze in the 200m race. He also won bronze in 100m. India has won 7 medals so far. 4 medals in shooting, Avni won the gold medal. Manish Narwal won silver while Mona Aggarwal and Rubina Francis won bronze medals in shooting.

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