Tokyo Paralympics 2020: All you need to know about the Indian contingent

A 54-member Indian contingent is in Tokyo, playing for top honours in their disciplines at the Parlympics 2020.

India's Devendra Jhajharia is a two-time Paralympics gold medal winner in javelin.

The Tokyo Paralympics will get started in the Japanese capital from August 24. A 54-member Indian contingent is in Tokyo, playing for top honours in their disciplines. Here is a quick look at the parathletes who will represent the country in Japan next week.

1. Para Athletics (24)

Men:

- Men's Javelin F46: Devendra, Ajeet Singh, Sundar Singh Gurjar

- Men's Javelin F64: Sandeep Chaudhary, Sumit

- Men's Javelin F 41: Navdeep

- Men's Javelin F57: Ranjeet Bhati

- Men's Javelin F54: Tek Chand

- Men's High Jump T63: Thangavelu Mariyappan, Sharad Kumar, Varun Singh Bhati

- Men's High Jump T64: Praveen Kumar

- Men's High Jump T47: Nishad Kumar, Ram Pal

- Men's Club Throw F51: Amit Kumar, Dharambir

- Men's Discus Throw F56: Yogesh Kathuniya

- Men's Discus Throw F52: Vinod Kumar

- Men's Shot Put F57: Soman Rana

- Men's Shot Put F35: Arvind Arvind

*Reserve: Sandip Sanjay Sagar (Men’s Javelin F64)

Women:

- Women's Club Throw F51: Ekta Bhyan, Kashish Lakra - Women's Shotput F 34: Bhagyashri Mahavrao Jadhav - Women's 100m T13: Simran Simran

2. Para swimming (2)

- Suyash Jadhav  - 50 m Butterfly of S7 category; 200 m Individual Medley in SM7 category - Niranjan Mukundan - men’s 50 m Butterfly in S7 category

3. Para shooting (10) Men: Manish Narwal (P1, P4) Singhraj (P1, P4) Deepender Singh (P1) Deepak (R1, R6, R7) Sidhartha Babu (R3, R6) Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar (R1) Akash (P3, P4) Rahul Jakhar (P3)

Women: Avani Lekhara (R2, R3, R6, R8) Rubina Francis (P2)

4. Powerlifting (2)

Men’s 65 kg: Jaideep Kumar

Women’s 50 kg: Sakina Khatun

5. Para archery (5)

Men: Recurve: Harvinder Singh, Vivek Chikara Compound: Rakesh Sharma, Shyam Sundar Swami Women: Compound: Jyoti Baliyan

6. Para badminton (7)

Men’s singles: Pramod Bhagat (SL3) Manoj Sarkar (SL3) Tarun Dhillon (SL4) Suhas L. Yathiraj (SL4) Krishna Nagar (SH6)

Women’s doubles: Parul Parmar and Palak Kohli (SL3-SU5)

7. Para table tennis (2)

Women:

C3: Sonalben Patel

C4: Bhavina Patel

8. Para Taekwondo (1)

Women

K44-49kg: Aruna Tanwar

9. Para canoeing (1)

Women

VL2: Prachi Yadav