The Paris Paralympics 2024 got underway with the official opening ceremony on August 28 (events starting from August 29) and will conclude on September 8.
India’s latest medal came with Nishad Kumar winning India’s seventh medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympics after finishing second in the men’s high jump T47 final. Earlier in the day, Preethi Pal won a bronze medal in the women’s 200m T35 event.
Earlier, Rubina Francis won bronze in the P2 Women’s 10m Air Pistol SH1 shooting event. India opened its account in the Paris Paralympics as Avani Lekhara grabbed gold and Mona Agarwal won bronze in the women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 category on Friday. Later, Preethi also a bronze medal in the women’s 100m T35 event while Manish Narwal clinched a silver medal in men’s 10m air pistol SH1.
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China maintains a healthy lead at the top with 67 medals, which includes 30 golds.
Great Britain is second in the standings while USA is third with 43 and 26 medals, respectively.
The latest edition of the Paralympics in Paris will feature 4,400 athletes from around the world competing in 549 medal events across 22 sports.
Here is the medal tally with the top 10 nations and India:
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | People's Republic of China | 33 | 26 | 11 | 71 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 23 | 12 | 8 | 43 |
| 3 | USA | 8 | 11 | 8 | 27 |
| 4 | Brazil | 8 | 4 | 15 | 27 |
| 5 | France | 6 | 9 | 11 | 26 |
| 6 | Australia | 6 | 6 | 10 | 22 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 8 | Italy | 5 | 4 | 9 | 18 |
| 9 | Uzbekistan | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 27 | India | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
Updated till September 2, 01:21 AM IST
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