As year 2023 winds to a close, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday recalled India's achievement in sports throughout 2023 and lavished praise on Indian athletes who participated in the Asian Games and Asian Para Games Hangzhou.
Notably, Gujarat emerged as a force to reckon with, securing the fourth position in the medal tally by clinching a total of 57 medals--15 gold, 22 silver, and 20 bronze, while Maharashtra secured the fifth spot at the table with a total of 35 medals - 12 gold, 7 silver, and 16 bronze.
The Indian contingent displayed a scintillating performance during the Asian Para Games 2023 in Hangzhou. They ended their campaign in fifth place on the medals table with 111 medals - 29 gold, 31 silver and 51 bronze.
Sumit threw the Javelin 73.29 meters in the recent Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, China for his world record mark and Sheetal Devi won two golds and a silver at the same Games in Compound Archery.
A spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy patient, Jeetu Kanwar, now 29, has been facing life's odds ever since she was in her mother's womb. Her form of spastic CP is the severest and it affects the movement of all four limbs, the trunk and the face.
Khelo India, the flagship program of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and Svayam, India's pioneering accessibility organisation, joined hands to ensure transportation and infrastructure are accessible in New Delhi during the Khelo India Para Games
The AIFF President was speaking during the Cerebral Palsy football final, a part of the Khelo India Para Games, which concluded on Sunday. The football title was won by Kerala, who defeated Tamil Nadu 7-0 in the summit clash at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in the capital.
While the Games witnessed star para-athletes who were fresh from their Asian Para Games success in Hangzhou, China, the likes of armless archer Sheetal Devi, discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya, table tennis star Bhavina Patel, Parul Parmar, Nishad Kumar among several others, there were also som
Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur said on Sunday that the Khelo India Para Games have proven to be a catalyst that has sparked a fire of inclusion across the nation and athletes painted the playing arenas with not only their wins but also their "stories, spirit and unwavering passion".<