India’s Preethi Pal won a bronze in women’s 200m T35 category, her second medal of Paris Paralympics, with a personal best time of 30.01 seconds on Sunday. The bronze won by the 23-year-old Preethi was also India’s second para-athletics medal in the Paris Games. T35 classification is meant for athletes who have coordination impairments such as hypertonia, ataxia and athetosis. On Friday, she had clinched India’s first athletics medal in a Paralympics track event, winning a bronze in the women’s T35 100m competition with a personal best time of 14.21 seconds.

All the athletics medals India had won since the 1984 edition of the Paralympics have come from the field events.

Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 4, Live Updates: India will fight for more medal on Day 4 of the ongoing Paris Paralympics 2024. Shooter Avani Lekhara, who won a gold medal in the individual round, will be in the qualification of the Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH1 event, along with Sidhartha Babu. Preethi Pal, a silver medallist in the Women’s 100m T35 event, would hope to continue the run in the Women’s 200m T35 event. Apart from this, para rowing duo of Anita/Narayana Konganapalle will also be in action PR3 mixed double sculls finals. (Medals Tally)

Here are the Live Updates of Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Day 4 (September 1):

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