India creates history in Asian Para Games, takes tally to record 82 medals with 2 days left
Indian para athletes on Thursday created history by winning the highest number of medals in the Asian Para Games, taking the country's tally to 82, including 18 gold. India have now gone past the earlier best of 72 medals achieved in the 2018 edition in Indonesia.
India added 18 medals, including three gold, on Thursday.
India's medals tally stood at 18 gold, 23 silver and 41 bronze at the end of the fourth day of competitions.
India's position in the medals tally, however, dropped two places to eight, as not too many gold medals were won on Thursday.
South Korea and Indonesia moved ahead of India in the medals tally led by China (156 gold, 128 silver, 108 bronze).
With two more days left in the Games, the country is on course of achieving its target of 100 medals in this edition of the Games.
India had won 72 medals (15 gold, 24 silver, 33
bronze) in the last edition in Jakarta which was the best before the Hangzhou Games.
Eight medals, including one gold, were won by track and field athletes on Thursday.
Overall, athletics contributed 45 medals out of India's total of 82, and 14 gold out of the country's total of 18 so far.
Sachin Sarjerao Khilari won the first gold of the day in men's F46 shot put with a Games record throw of 16.03m while Rohit Kumar took the bronze with 14.56m.
Para shooter Sidhartha Babu then bagged another gold in R6 mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 event as he shot an Asian Para Games score of 247.7.
