“There can’t be a happier moment for an athlete and the country when the national flag goes up and the national anthem is played,” said two-time Paralympics gold medalist and current president of Paralympic Committee of India (PCI), Devendra Jhajharia.
India had not won a Paralympic medal after 1984 until the 2004 Athens Paralympics, when Jhajharia ended India’s medal drought with a gold in men’s javelin throw F44/46 event and set a world record in the process.
