Asian Para Games 2023 medals tally Highlights: October 24 - India fifth with 10 gold medals; China on top

Asian Para Games 2023, October 24: India is currently in fifth place with 35 medals.

Nishad Kumar and Ram Pal of India won gold and bronze respectively in the Men’s High Jump-T47 category. | Photo Credit: X | Nishad Kumar

Deepthi Jeevanji won India’s eighth gold medal in the women’s 400m-T20, and setting a new Asian Para record and Games record at the Asian Para Games 2023 in Hangzhou, China on Tuesday.

Deepthi, with a record timing of 56.69s, secured a top podium finish ahead of Thailand’s Orawan Kaising who gave her personal best time of 59.00s and still had to settle for silver.

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In the men’s 400m-T64 final, Ajay Kumar clinched silver with a personal best timing of 54.85.

Sharath Makanahalli Shankarappa won gold in the Men’s 5000m-T13 category to raise India’s gold medal tally to nine. However, it was India’s Neeraj Yadav, Yogesh Kathuniya and Muthuraja, who swept the men’s discus throw-F54/55/56 podium as India stood with 10 gold medals.

Earlier in the day, Manish Kaurav clinched a bronze medal in the Canoe Men’s KL3 Final event.

Prachi Yadav won gold in the Canoe women’s KL2 event after securing a silver on Monday in the women’s VL2 final.

India is currently in fourth place with 35 medals including 10 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze.

Here are the medal standings:

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	67	53	45	165
2	IR Iran	16	19	12	47
3.	Japan	12	13	25	45
3	Uzbekistan	12	12	14	38
4	India	10	12	13	35

As on October 24, 7 PM IST