While the nation was still submerged into the notion of PV Sindhu’s golden moment and Sai Praneeth’s reclaiming the Bronze after a long wait, there were 12 other medalists in the World Championship that made India proud in Basel, Switzerland. The Para Badminton team had a distinct show to offer, when Sindhu and Praneeth’s grace overshadowed their achievements to some extent.
Honorable @narendramodi sir,
— Sukant Kadam (@sukant9993) 27 August 2019
We Para Badminton Athletes also won 12 medals in Para-Badminton World Championship and we also want your blessings.Request you to allow us to meet as we missed a chance aftr Asian Games@PramodBhagat83 @joshimanasi11 @manojshuttler @GauravParaCoach https://t.co/1zCqE91VAh
However, this did not stop them from earning 3 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 5 bronze medals on international grounds. Pramod Bhagat in the men’s SL3 singles category, and Manasi Girishchandra Joshi under the women’s SL3 singles category claimed individual Gold medal with another tremendous show. Pramod along with Manoj Sarkar clinched on to the third Gold medal under doubles SL3-SL4 category.
Pramod Bhagat in his singles, made an inspiring comeback after a scary first set, to defeat Englishmen Daniel Bethell, engraving to his name his third title under the SL3 category in men’s singles. He pulled another stint in the doubles SL3-SL4 category along with partner Manoj Sarkar, seizing the 2 Gold for India in the event. The duo started the game, with an equally competent fight from compatriots Nitesh Kumar and Tarun Dhillon, slumping in the first set with 14-21 score. But recovered evidently from the following rounds and wrapping up the title with 21-15 and 21-16 scores in the final two sets.
130 crore Indians are extremely proud of the Indian Para Badminton contingent, which has brought home 12 medals at BWF World Championships 2019.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 28 August 2019
Congratulations to the entire team, whose success is extremely gladdening and motivating. Each of these players is remarkable!
On the other hand, in the women’s singles’ under the SL3 category, Manasi Girishchandra Joshi clinched on to another Gold medal, defeating World No. 1 and compatriot Parul Parmar in two straight sets, finishing with scores 21-12, 21-7.
The total list includes, 4 silver medals by; Tarun and Parul Dalsukhbhai Parmer, respectively in men’s SL4 and women’s SL3 singles category; in doubles, Kumar Nitish-Tarun Tarun and Nagar Krishna-Raja Magotra in men’s SL3-SL4 and SS6 category respectively. Rest of 7 Bronze medals are from; Manoj Sarkar in SL3, Sukant Kadam in SL4 and Nagar Krishna in SS6 in the men’s singles; while Umesh Vikram in SL3-SL4 and the duo of Raj Kumar-Rakesh Pandey under SU5 in men’s doubles.
They are the stars of India✌ Let's salute our Para-Badminton players who brought laurels for India. Today, Sports Ministry took a decision to handover the cash money to every player at the time of arrival itself which would amount upto 20 lakhs per athlete. pic.twitter.com/kBFNTerNbD
— Kiren Rijiju (@KirenRijiju) 27 August 2019
Bronze medalist Sukant Kadam, a day after his medal acheivement, asked the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, in his twitter handle, to also meet the 12 medalist who brought glory back home from Basel in the BWF Para Badminton World Championships. PM Modi replied to the tweet congratulating them and wishing them a bright future ahead. Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju also amended the Para-athlete’s policy by handing them a sum amount of Rs 1.82 crore.
