जूडो में भारत का पहला पैरालंपिक पदक जीत कर कपिल परमार ने रचा इतिहास

Kapil Parmar won India's first Paralympic medal in Judo, winning the bronze medal in the men's 60kg (J1) after defeating Brazil's Ailiton de Oliveira in the play-off here on Thursday. Parmar put up a brilliant performance and dominated his opponent from start to finish to win the bronze medal contest 10-0. Earlier, he lost to S Banitaba Khorram Abadi in the semi-finals, beaten 0-10 by his Iranian opponent. The J1 category in Para Judo is for athletes who are not able to see at all or suffer from very low vision activity. Parmar, who won a silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in the same category, had earlier defeated Venezuela's Marco Denis Blanco 10-0 in the quarter-finals. However, Parmar was given one yellow card each in both the bouts on Thursday. Yellow cards in judo are given for minor infractions such as passivity or using a technique that may hinder or injure an opponent.

History-making Indian archer Harvinder Singh's bid for a double medal at the Paris Paralympics ended in heartbreak as he, along with Pooja Jatyan, lost to Slovenia in a shoot-off in a tense recurve mixed team bronze playoff match. After losing to top seeds Italy in the semi-finals, fifth seeds Harvinder and Pooja, who both hail from Haryana, twice slipped from 2-0 and 4-2 leads in the bronze medal match to lose 4-5 (19-17) to Ziva Lavrinc and Dejan Fabic. After winning the first set 33-30, Slovenia levelled the score with a 34-29 win in the second set thanks to Pooja's 6 and Harvinder's 5 arrows. Harvinder continued their momentum by hitting two 10s in the second set while Pooja hit the 9 ring twice to put them back on track with a 38-33 win in the third set, which also restored their lead (4-2). But they failed to finish it off, both scoring 5 and 7 in the fourth set, allowing Slovenia to win the fourth set 34-29, forcing a shoot-off. Fabic got off to a bright start by scoring 9 in the shoot-off, followed by Jeeva to finish it off with a perfect 10 while Harvinder and Pooja scored 8 and 9.