Records India Broke At Tokyo Paralympics

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1. Tokyo Paralympics 2020 was India's most successful campaign as the athletes returned home with a total of 19 medals.

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2. Shooter Avani Lekhara became India's first woman to clinch a gold medal at the Paralympics. She also won a bronze medal in the same edition.

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3. In her gold medal match in 10m air rifle, Avani made a new Paralympic record with her score of 249.6. 

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4. Archer Harvinder Singh, who won a bronze medal in men's individual recurve, became the 1st Indian Paralympian to win a medal in archery.

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5. Bhavina Patel won a silver medal and became India's first table tennis player to win a Paralympic medal. 

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6. Javelin-thrower Sumit Antil won gold with his record-breaking throw of 68.55m. With this, he surpassed his own world record of 62.88m. 

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7. Shooter Manish Narwal claimed gold with 218.2 points in the final of the P4 mixed 50m pistol SH1 event. This was a new Paralympic record.

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