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With the Tokyo Paralympics easily being India's most successful ever, there were plenty of remarkable numbers recorded by Indian athletes.
Total number of medals won by India in Tokyo -- five golds, eight silvers and six bronzes, easily the most they have won in a single edition.
India had previously won 12 medals in 11 editions that they had participated. Their earlier record for a single editions was four medals, which they has won twice: in Stoke Mandeville and New York in 1984 and in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
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India won five gold medals in Tokyo through Avani Lekhara, Sumit Antil, Manish Narwal, Pramod Bhagat and Krishna Nagar.
They had previously won four golds across all editions that they had taken part in, with the medal winners being Murlikant Petkar (1972), Devendra Jhajharia (2004 and 2016) and Mariyappan Thangavelu (2016).
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India won five medals in a day on August 30, by far their most in a single day at the Paralympics. Their previous best was two medals in a day in 2016.
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Number of sports that India medaled in (table tennis, athletics, shooting, archery and badminton) at the Tokyo Games. Their earlier best was two sports -- they won a medal each in swimming and athletics in 2004. This was the first time that India won a medal in shooting, archery, table tennis and badminton at the Paralympics. While the other sports have been a part of the Paralympics previously, this was the first time that badminton was a part of the programme.
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Three of India's 19 medals were won by women, with Lekhara winning two and Bhavinaben Patel winning one. The only Indian woman to medal at the Paralympics before this edition was Deepa Malik in 2016.
2
Singhraj Adana and Lekhara both won two medals each in Tokyo, making this the first Paralympics where more than one Indian won multiple medals in a single edition.
The only Indian to win multiple medals in a single edition before this was Joginder Singh Bedi, who won three medals in 1984. While Adana won a silver and bronze, Lekhara won gold and bronze.
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India won five medals in shooting in Tokyo, including two golds, one silver and two bronzes, placing them third on the shooting medal table behind only China and Serbia..
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India's badminton players impressed in the sport's maiden appearance at the Games, winning four medal to finish fourth on the medal table for the sport. Only China, Japan and Indonesia won more medals in the sport than India.
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India finished 24th on the overall medal table. Their previous best finish was 25th at the 1972 Paralympics in Heidelberg, where Petkar won India's only medal.
