Paris Paralympics 2024: Here's The Complete Schedule Of Indian Contingent's Opening Day

Paris Paralympics 2024: India begin their Paris Paralympics schedule on August 29, 2024. This is a massive sporting year for India. With the T20 World Cup coming home and India winning six medals (five bronze and one silver) at the Paris Olympics, the focus now shifts on India's Para athletes who will try and bring more laurels to the country. India have an action-packed  opening day of their Paris Paralympics campaign.

Here's India's Schedule For The First Day Of Paris Paralympics

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• Para Badminton: Nitesh Kumar-Thulasimathi Murugesan vs Suhas Yathiraj-Palak Kohli in mixed doubles SL3-SU5 group stage match at 12 PM
• Para Badminton: Suhas Yathiraj vs Hikmat Ramdani of Indonesia in men's singles SL4 group stage match at 12 PM
• Para Badminton: Sivarajan Solaimalai-Nithya Sre Sivan vs USA's Miles Krajewski-Jayci Simon in mixed doubles SH6 group stage match at 12 PM
• Para Taekwondo: Aruna Tanwar vs Nurcihan Ekinci of Turkey in women's K44-47kg round of 16 (medal matches to start at 10:40 pm) at 1:30 PM
• Para Badminton: Mandeep Kaur vs Eniola Bolaji of Nigeria in women's singles SL3 group stage match at 2 PM
• Para Badminton: Manasi Joshi vs Qonitah Syakuroh in women's singles SL3 group stage match at 2 PM
• Para Badminton: Sukant Kadam vs Md. Amin Burhanuddin of Malaysia in men's singles SL4 group stage match at 2:40 PM
• Para Badminton: Tarun Dhillon vs Rogerio de Oliveira of Brazil in men's singles SL4 group match at 3:20 PM
• Para Badminton: Nitesh Kumar vs Manoj Sarkar in men's singles SL3 group stage match at 4:00 PM
• Para Cycling: Jyoti Gaderiya in women's C1-3 3000m individual pursuit qualification (medal matches to start at 10:40 pm) at 4:25 PM
• Para Archery: Sheetal Devi and Sarita in women's individual compound ranking round at 4:30 PM
• Para Archery: Harvinder Singh in men's individual recurve ranking round at 4:30 PM
• Para Badminton: Palak Kohli vs Milena Surreau of France in women's singles SL4 group stage match at 4:40 PM
• Para Badminton: Thulasimathi Murugesan vs Rosa de Marco of Italy in women's singles SU5 group stage match at 5:20 PM
• Para Badminton: Manisha Ramdass vs Maud Lefort of France in women's singles SU5 group stage match at 7:30 PM
• Para Badminton: Sivarajan Solaimalai vs Subhan of Indonesia in men's singles SH6 group stage match at 7:30 PM
• Para Badminton: Nithya Sre Sivan vs Jayci Simon of the USA in women's singles SH6 group stage match at 7:30 PM
• Para Archery: Rakesh Kumar and Shyam Sundar Swami in men's individual compound ranking round at 8:30 PM
• Para Archery: Pooja in women's individual recurve ranking round at 8:30 PM
• Para Badminton: Nitesh Kumar-Thulasimathi Murugesan vs Hikmat Ramdani-Leani Oktila in mixed doubles SL3-SU5 group stage match at 10:10 PM
• Para Badminton: Palak Kohli-Suhas Yathiraj vs Lucas Mazur-Faustine Noel of France in mixed doubles SL3-SU5 group stage match at 10:50 PM

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India Look To Better Their Paris Paralympics Performance

India will want to better the performance of Tokyo Paralympics 2020. The Indian contingent had 54 athletes and had won 19 medals in total. This time around, India has sent 84 athletes who will compete across 12 sports, including 38 female and 46 male athletes.