Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Highlights: Judoka Kapil Parmar wins historic bronze in Men -60 kg J1 category; archers Pooja/Harvinder lose bronze medal match in Mixed Team Recurve Open
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THE TIMES OF INDIA | Sep 06, 2024, 01:22:41 IST
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Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Highlights: Judoka Kapil Parmar wins historic bronze in Men -60 kg J1 category; archers Pooja/Harvinder lose bronze medal match in Mixed Team Recurve Open

Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Kapil Parmar bagged India's first ever Paralympic medal in judo, clinching a bronze in the men's 60kg (J1) after convincingly defeating Brazil's Elielton de Oliveira in the final in Paris on Thursday.

Parmar produced a superlative performance, dominating his opponent from start to finish to record a 10-0 win in the bronze medal contest.

He had earlier lost to S Banitaba Khorram Abadi in the semifinals, beaten 0-10 by his Iranian opponent at the Champs-de-mart arena.

The J1 class in para judo is for the athletes who suffer from no to very low visual activity. Athletes in this category wear red circles to indicate that they may need guided support before, during and after a contest.

Parmar, who won the silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in the same category, had earlier beaten Venezuela's Marco Dennis Blanco 10-0 in the quarterfinal.

Parmar was, however, handed a yellow card in each of the two contests on Thursday.

Yellow cards in judo are given for minor violations such as passivity or using a technique that might hinder the opponent or cause injury.
20:00 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
India's Pooja/Harvinder Singh fight back to make it 2-4 against Elisabetta Mijno/Stefano Travisani of Italy after winning SET 3 (37-35) in the Mixed Team Recurve Open semi-final.

SET POINTS: INDIA 2-4 ITALY
19:56 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
India's Pooja/Harvinder Singh trail 0-4 against Elisabetta Mijno/Stefano Travisani of Italy after losing SET 2 (28-40) in the Mixed Team Recurve Open semi-final.

India need to win remaining two SETs to stay in the contest and force the match into shoot-off.

SET POINTS: INDIA 0-4 ITALY
19:53 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
India's Pooja/Harvinder Singh trail 0-2 against Elisabetta Mijno/Stefano Travisani of Italy after losing SET 1 (31-36) in the Mixed Team Recurve Open semi-final.

SET POINTS: INDIA 0-2 ITALY
19:49 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
IN PROGRESS -- India's Pooja/Harvinder Singh will be in action against Elisabetta Mijno/Stefano Travisani of Italy in the Mixed Team Recurve Open semi-final.
19:26 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Up Next: Judo - Bronze Medal match
India's Kapil Parmar will be in action against Elielton De Oliveira of Brazil in the Men -60 kg J1 Bronze Medal match
19:20 (IST) Sep 05
Kudos to Team India!!!!
19:07 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: India’s Pooja/Harvinder Singh will take on Elisabetta Mijno/Stefano Travisani of Italy in the Mixed Team Recurve open semifinals at 7:50 PM IST.
18:51 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archers Pooja/Harvinder's semi-final is expected to take place at 7:50 PM (IST) later tonight
18:50 (IST) Sep 05
Archers Pooja/Harvinder's Scoresheet!!!
Archers Pooja/Harvinder's Scoresheet!!!
18:41 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archers Pooja/Harvinder enter semis
India's Pooja/Harvinder Singh advance to semis after registering a 6-0 win over Milena Olszewska/Lukasz Ciszek of Poland in the Mixed Team Recurve Open quarter-final. India win the third SET 36-32.

SET POINTS: INDIA 6-0 POLAND
18:37 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
India's Pooja/Harvinder Singh take 4-0 lead against Milena Olszewska/Lukasz Ciszek of Poland after winning SET 2 (33-32) in the Mixed Team Recurve Open quarter-final. Poland need to with the next SET as only two left in the match.

SET POINTS: INDIA 4-0 POLAND
18:33 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
India's Pooja/Harvinder Singh take 2-0 lead against Milena Olszewska/Lukasz Ciszek of Poland after winning SET 1 (35-32) in the Mixed Team Recurve Open quarter-final.

SET POINTS: INDIA 2-0 POLAND
18:27 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
IN PROGRESS!!! India's Pooja/Harvinder Singh in action against Milena Olszewska/Lukasz Ciszek of Poland in the Mixed Team Recurve Open quarter-final.
18:18 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Up Next - Archery
India's Pooja/Harvinder Singh will be in action against Milena Olszewska/Lukasz Ciszek of Poland in the Mixed Team Recurve Open quarter-final.
17:36 (IST) Sep 05
Kapil Parmar to fight for bronze!!
17:17 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Indians in action later tonight!!!
Para Archery

6:30 PM: Pooja/Harvinder Singh vs Milena Olszewska/Lukasz Ciszek (Poland) in Mixed Team Recurve Open Quarterfinal

Para Judo

7:30 PM: Kapil Parmar vs Elielton De Oliveira (Brazil) in Men -60 kg J1 Bronze Medal Contest

Para Powerlifting

10:05 PM: Ashok in Men's up to 65kg Final

Para Athletics

10:47 PM: Simran in Women's 100m - T12 Final

11:49 PM: Arvind in Men's Shot Put - F35 Final

16:49 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: US Paralympic track star Malone credits mum for his success
Noah Malone, one of several young and charismatic stars of the US Paralympic athletics team, credits his mother for pushing her reluctant son to his goals, admitting "I did not even like (the sport) at first."

So it was to his family -- there are seven of them in Paris including his mother LaTasha Sturdivant -- that a beaming Malone ran straight to after winning the T12 400 metres silver medal on Thursday as rain bucketed down at the Stade de France.

The 22-year-old had already won 100m gold -- upgraded from silver after the Turkish winner was disqualified -- and could add a third medal in the 4x100m relay.

Malone -- who aged 13 was diagnosed with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON), a rare, incurable genetic disease that leads to central vision loss -- already had relay gold and 100m silver from the Tokyo Games three years ago.

Growing up, his mother had noticed how fast he ran round the garden at their home in Indiana and although he was much more interested by basketball, she took him to a track and field club.

16:38 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Sidhartha Babu and Mona Agarwal crash out
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Sidhartha Babu and Mona Agarwal crash out

In the para shooting mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 qualification, India's Sidhartha Babu and Mona Agarwal could not qualify to the next round at the Paris Paralympics.

Sidhartha finished 22nd with a total of 615.8 points, while Mona finished 30th with 610.5 points.

16:03 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Simran advances to 100m T12 final
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Simran advances to 100m T12 final

Continuing her good form, Indian sprinter Simran advanced to the women's 100m (T12) final of the Paralympics after clocking 12.33sec in the semifinal race here on Thursday. Accompanied by her guide Abhay Singh, the 24-year-old reigning world champion from New Delhi finished second behind Germany's Katrin Mueller-Rottgardt in semifinal 2.

Simran, who was born prematurely with visual impairment, was ranked third overall in the semis. She will now compete in the four-sprinter final scheduled for later in the tonight.

Simran had produced a season's best effort of 12.17sec in her heats on Wednesday.

Besides Simran and Mueller-Rottgardt, Ukraine's Oksana Boturchuk and reigning Paralympic champion and world record holder Omara Durand of Cuba will compete for the top honours in the final.

The T12 category is meant for athletes who have visual impairment.

15:58 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Para Athletics - Women's 100m - T12
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Para Athletics - Women's 100m - T12

Simran will be one of the four athletes in the FINAL of Women's 100m - T12 event.

The final will take place tonight around 10.30 PM IST

15:55 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Para Athletics - Women's 100m - T12 Semi-Finals
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Para Athletics - Women's 100m - T12 Semi-Finals

Simran enters FINAL of Women's 100m - T12 event

15:54 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Para Athletics - Women's 100m - T12 Semi-Finals
Simran enters Women's 100m - T12 FINAL.

She clocks 12.33 with reaction time of 0.186 and 0.172 to enter the final .
15:47 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Judo
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Judo

Kapil Parmar loses to Iran's Khoram Banitaba in the Judo - Men -60 kg J1 Semifinals.

15:42 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Judo
India's Kapil Parmar is in action against Iran's Khoram Banitaba in the Judo - Men -60 kg J1 Semifinals
15:11 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery

India's Pooja/Harvinder Singh to face Poland's Milena Olszewska/Lukasz Ciszek in Mixed Team Recurve Open Quarterfinal Match

14:58 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Judo
India's Kapil Parmar to face Iran's Khoram Banitaba in the Judo - Men -60 kg J1 Semifinals
14:39 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Judo
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Judo

Kapil Parmar beats Marcos Dennis Blanco of Venezuela to enter Men -60 kg J1 Semifinals

14:35 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Judo
Kapil Parmar is in action against Marcos Dennis Blanco of Venezuela in Men -60 kg J1 Quarterfinals
14:26 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Judo
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Judo

India's Kokila loses to Akmaral Nauatbek of Kazakhstan in Women -48kg J2 Quarterfinals

14:24 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery

Pooja/Harvinder Singh beat Amanda Jennings and Taymon Kenton-Smith of Australia in Mixed Team Recurve Open 1/8 Elimination Match

The duo have entered the quarterfinals.

14:23 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
Pooja/Harvinder Singh beat Amanda Jennings and Taymon Kenton-Smith of Australia in Mixed Team Recurve Open 1/8 Elimination Match

The duo have entered the quarterfinals.
14:09 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Judo
Kokila is in action against Akmaral Nauatbek of Kazakhstan in Women -48kg J2 Quarterfinals
14:02 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1

Here are the FINAL 8s who will be be competing in Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 Final.

13:56 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
Pooja/Harvinder Singh are leading 2-0 against Amanda Jennings and Taymon Kenton-Smith of Australia in Mixed Team Recurve Open 1/8 Elimination Match
13:55 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Archery
Pooja and Harvinder Singh are in action against Amanda Jennings and Taymon Kenton-Smith of Australia in Mixed Team Recurve Open 1/8 Elimination Match
13:50 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Shooting - Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 Qualification
Sidhartha Basu, Mona Agarwal fail to qualify for Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 Final
13:45 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Shooting - Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 Qualification
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Shooting - Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 Qualification

Mona Agarwal is at 30th position after shooting in all six series in qualification.

13:44 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Shooting - Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 Qualification
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Shooting - Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 Qualification

Sidhartha Basu is at 21 position after shooting in all six series in qualification.

13:40 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Shooting - Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 Qualification
The top 8 athletes from Qualification will progress to the Finals
13:38 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: India start their campaign on Day 8
Sidhartha Basu, Mona Agarwal are in action in Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 Qualification
11:49 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: One arrow at a time: Making of Paralympic champion archer Harvinder Singh
Dealing with the unexpected, whether in archery or life in general, is no big deal for Harvinder Singh. He has aced the anticipation game thanks to the hard lessons that came his way.

The 33-year-old from Haryana, who scripted history by becoming the first Indian archer to win a Paralympic gold, has impaired legs owing to a dengue treatment gone wrong when he was just one year old but instead of lamenting his fate, he chose to become bigger than his circumstances.
Harvinder's journey to Paralympic glory began with a bronze three years back in Tokyo, which made him the first Indian to finish on the Games podium.

On Wednesday, he showed neither fatigue nor nerves to secure five back-to-back wins in a day to bag his second successive Paralympic medal in recurve open category, bettering the previous performance by quite a margin.

All his achievements are a first in Indian archery. And when he is not shooting down medals, Harvinder is busy pursuing a Ph.D in economics.

10:54 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Dharambir shatters Asian record for gold, Pranav Soorma secures silver in F51 club throw

Dharambir, hailing from Sonepat, shattered the Asian record with a throw of 34.92m in his fifth attempt, securing the gold medal in the men's F51 club throw event at the Paris Paralympics on Wednesday.

The 35-year-old world championships bronze medallist had fouled his first four attempts before making his mark.

10:11 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Paralympic legends Masters and Storey win Paris golds
Ukrainian-born US cyclist Oksana Masters and British Paralympic great Sarah Storey both added more titles to their collections with time trial victories in Paris on Wednesday.

Masters, who was born in Ukraine with significant birth defects believed to be linked to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, including missing thumbs and weight-bearing bones in her legs, claimed the seventh Paralympic gold of her career when she won the H4-5 category.

The 35-year-old has previously won medals in rowing and in a range of winter sports including cross-country skiing.

Storey, competing in her ninth Paralympics at the age of 46, won the 18th gold medal of a career that began in swimming by taking the C5 time trial in the Paris suburbs ahead of French hope Heidi Gaugain.

Born without a functioning left hand, Storey has now won 29 Paralympics medals of all colours since she made her debut at the 1992 Barcelona Games.

But she slammed the Paris organisers for having a course measuring 14.1 kilometres, saying it was the first time she had raced a Games course shorter than 22km.

09:48 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Olympic timekeeper Omega makes tweaks for the Paralympics
About 260 Omega employees are working at this year's Paralympics. Each worker is guided by one principle, according to chief executive officer Alain Zobrist. "Once you hit the enter key," he said, "you can't go back."

Omega has been an official partner of the Olympics since 1932, and with the Paralympics since Barcelona 1992. The Swiss watchmaker is currently a top-tier partner.

The trip to every new host city brings about a push for new advancements to its timekeeping systems.

Paris 2024 has seen the debut of new photo finish cameras, capable of shooting 40,000 frames per second. Omega also brought sensors for the starting line that can record reaction time feedback every quarter of a millisecond.

The features were implemented for both Summer Games, Olympic and Paralympic, but some additions are exclusive to the Paralympics. Zobrist and Omega have given a couple of tours and demonstrations to journalists at arenas to display how their equipment operates.
09:06 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: How does wheelchair fencing work?
The wheelchair fencing competition at the Paralympic Games is in full swing, taking place under the prestigious glass dome of the Grand Palais in the heart of Paris.

Here is what you need to know to follow the competition.


What is wheelchair fencing?

Wheelchair fencing adapts traditional fencing for athletes with impairments affecting their motor function.

Athletes compete in stationary wheelchairs fixed to the floor, relying solely on upper body strength, agility, and reflexes.

The objective is to score “hits” or “touches” on the opponent, recorded by an electronic system due to the speed of the bouts.

In singles competition, matches last three minutes or until one fencer scores 15 hits. In team events, three fencers from the same country compete one after another in singles bouts. The winning team is the first to reach 45 cumulative points or have the most points when time is up.

09:00 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Storey extends British Paralympic record with 18th gold
Sarah Storey extended her record as the most successful British Paralympian on Thursday, winning the women's C5 time trial at the Paris Games to claim her 18th gold medal.

It was 46-year-old Storey's 13th Paralympic gold medal in cycling, with the other five won in swimming. She overtook swimmer Mike Kenny's record of 16 Paralympic golds in the Tokyo .

Storey completed the course in 20 minutes and 22.15 seconds, beating French silver medallist Heidi Gaugain by more than four seconds.

The win took Storey's total Paralympic medal tally to 29, with 16 being won in swimming between 1992-2004.

08:59 (IST) Sep 05
Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 8 Live Updates: Harvinder is pursuing Ph.D in Economics
Harvinder, who is pursuing Ph.D in Economics, won five back-to-back matches in a single day, showing neither fatigue nor nerves to etch his name in history and clinch India's second medal in archery here.

Both his legs are impaired owing to the side effects of dengue treatment that he underwent as a toddler.
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