India's athletes achieved a major milestone at the Paris Paralympics by bettering the medal haul (in numbers) from Tokyo. The medal count was given a boost by track and field athletes who secured five medals - sprinter Deepthi Sharma (bronze) in women's 400m T20, high jumpers Sharad Kumar (silver) and Mariyappan Thangavelu (bronze) in men's T63 finals, javelin throwers Ajeet Singh (silver), Sundar Singh Gurjar (bronze) in men's F46 category and shot putter Sachin Khilari (silver) in the men's F46 category.
This was followed by archer Harvinder Singh securing gold in the men's individual recurve competition to take India's medal count to 22. The breakup is 4 gold, 8 silver, 10 bronze. In Tokyo, India had won 19 medals (5 gold, 8 silver, 6 bronze). At the time of going to print, India was placed 15th on the medals tally.
