Two weeks for the reason that nation’s most-successful Asian Games displaying, India’s para-athletes will look to observe swimsuit on the Hangzhou Asian Para Games, which can be held from 22-28 October.

India is sending its largest contingent ever of 303 athletes – 191 male and 112 feminine athletes – for what guarantees to be a medal-laden competitors. The likes of Pramod Bhagat, Ekta Bhyan and Suyash Jadhav will look to defend their titles, whereas Tokyo Paralympics gold medallists Avani Lekhara and Sumit Antil will look to make a mark on the Asian Para Games.

Here’s every little thing you’ll want to know forward of India’s 2022 Asian Para Games marketing campaign –

How did India fare on the 2018 Asian Para Games?

India despatched 190 athletes for the 2018 Asian Para Games and completed ninth on the medal tally with 15 golds and a complete of 72 medals. This was India’s finest end on the Asian Para Games, a robust enchancment from the 33 medals gained within the 2014 version.

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Can this contingent crack the 100-medal barrier that had been such a marker of progress a fortnight in the past? In all actuality, the chance is excessive. India will take part in 17 disciplines this time round, which is essentially the most variety of sports activities they ever have and can be competing in canoe, blind soccer, garden bowls, rowing, and taekwondo for the primary time. With a bunch of reigning Olympic, World and Asian champions, the Indian Para contingent ought to return with a file medal haul. India’s possibilities can be boosted by the truth that 51 of the 54 athletes who took half within the Tokyo Paralympics are a part of this contingent as properly, they’ll concern no stage.

Who are the large names to look out for on the 2022 Asian Para Games?

Let’s begin with the Paralympic and World champion, Sumit. He is the world’s finest javelin thrower within the F64 class and can be the world file holder – he threw 70.83m to win the World Para Athletics Championships this yr. Also keep watch over javelin thrower Ajeet Singh within the F46 class, the place he’s the defending World champion.

Para shooter Manish Narwal not too long ago added the World title to his Paralympics gold medal [P1 – men’s 10m air pistol SH1] and can be seeking to proceed his wealthy type on the Para Asian Games, as will Avani. The 21-year-old Paralympics gold medallist rewrote the world file to win the ladies’s 10m Air Rifle standing SH1 on the Para-Shooting World Cup in 2022.

India’s ace para-shuttler Pramod Bhagat can be eager to retain his title. The 35-year-old is the World #2 in singles and doubles in his classification and likewise gained a singles gold on the 2022 World Championships. Table tennis participant Bhavinaben Patel, who gained silver on the Tokyo Paralympics, comes into the Para Asian Games after successful gold on the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Some of the opposite prime names to be careful for embrace high-jumpers Mariyappan Thangavelu [2016 Paralympics gold (T42) and silver in 2021 (T63)] and Nishad Kumar [2023 Worlds silver with an Asian Record (T47)] and para-swimmer Suyash Jadhav [the first Indian para-swimmer to win an Asian Para Games gold in the men’s 50m Butterfly – S7].

Any defending champions within the Indian workforce?

Oh sure, 13 of the 15 Indians who gained gold on the earlier editions can be defending their titles on the 2022 Asian Para Games –

• Pramod Bhagat [Men’s Singles SL3]

• Ekta Bhyan [Women’s Club Throw F32/51]

• Suyash Jadhav [Men’s 50M Butterfly S7 (6-7)]

• Manish Narwal [P1 – Men’s 10m Air Pistol SH1 and P4 – Mixed 50m Pistol SH1]

• Harvinder Singh [Men’s Individual Recurve Open – W2/ST]

• Parul Parmar [Women’s Singles SL3]

• Kishan Gangolli [Men’s Individual Rapid VI – B2/B3]

• Amit Kumar [Men’s Club Throw F51]

• Tarun Dhillon [Men’s Singles SL4]

• Neeraj Yadav [Men’s Javelin Throw F55]

• Sandeep Chaudhary [Men’s Javelin Throw F42-44/61-64]

• Rakshita Raju [Women’s 1500M T11]

• Narayan Thakur [Men’s 100m T35]

Where can I watch the 2022 Asian Para Games in India?

Indian viewers can watch the 2022 Asian Para Games dwell on FanCode.