Indian badminton contingent finishes its campaign with 16 medals at Asia Youth Para Games in Bahrain

Indian badminton contingent finishes its campaign with 16 medals at Asia Youth Para Games in Bahrain

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Indian badminton contingent finished its campaign with 16 medals at the Asia Youth Para Games in Bahrain yesterday. Indian para shuttlers won four gold, seven silver and five bronze.

For India, Tokyo Paralympian Palak Kohli, Sanjana Kumari, and Hardik Makkar clinched three medals each.

While Nithya Sre and Sanjana claimed the women’s singles gold in SH6 and SL3 classification, Palak and Sanjana combined to win the yellow metal in women’s doubles (SL3-SU5) and Nehal Gupta and Abhijeet Sakhuja secured the top position in men’s doubles (SL3-SL4).

The silver medallists were Nithya Sre and Aditya Kulkarni (mixed doubles, SH6), Jyoti (Women’s singles, SL4), Naveen S (Men’s singles, SL4), Hardik Makkar (Men’s singles, SU5), Karan Paneer and Ruthick Ragupathi (Men’s doubles, SU5), Hardik and Sanjana (Mixed doubles, SL3-SU5).

Bronze medallist shuttlers were: Palak Kohli (Women’s singles SU5), Palak and Nehal Gupta (Mixed doubles, SL3-SU5), Naveen S and Hardik Makkar (Men’s doubles, SU5), Aditya Kulkarni (men’s singles, SH6).

Around 750 athletes under 23 years of age from around 30 countries participated in the continental youth showpiece event that took place between 2nd to 6th of this month.