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| Tokyo Paralympics: Pramod Bhagat wins first ever badminton gold for India | | |
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nEW dELHI, Sept 4: India’s Pramod Bhagat won the Men’s Singles SL3 event badminton gold medal match against Great Britain’s Daniell Bethell at the Tokyo Paralympics on Saturday. This is India’s first medal in badminton at the Paralympics Games. Manoj Sarkar beat Daisuke Fujihara of Japan and clinched the Bronze medal in the same category.
So far, India has won 17 medals at the Paralympics – four gold, seven silver and six bronze medals.
Bhagat was 8 points behind in the second game before making a comeback and wrapping up the match 21-14, 21-17.
The 33-year-old Bhagat from Bhubaneswar also remains in contention for a bronze medal in mixed doubles SL3-SU5 class. Bhagat and his partner Palak Kohli will square off against Japanese pair of Daisuke Fujihara and Akiko Sugino in the bronze medal play off on Sunday.
They had lost the semifinals 3-21 15-21 to Indonesian combination of Hary Susanto and Leani Ratri Oktila earlier in the day.
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