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Tokyo, Sep 4 (PTI): Shooter Avani Lekhara will be the flag bearer of country’s contingent during the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old trailblazer Lekhara had won a gold in R-2 women’s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event on Monday before claiming the 50m Rifle 3 Position SH1 bronze on Friday.<\/p>\n
“Avani will be the flag bearer and there will be 11 participants from the Indian contingent during the closing ceremony,” an official of the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) said.<\/p>\n
Lekhara, who was paralysed below the waist after a car accident in 2012, is only the Indian to win multiple medals in a single edition of the Games.<\/p>\n
Before Lekhara, Joginder Singh Sodhi had won a silver and two bronze medals in the 1984 Paralympics.<\/p>\n
Another shooter Singhraj Adana joined the exclusive club on Saturday when he added a silver in P4 Mixed 50m Pistol SH1 event to the bronze in the P1 men’s 10m air pistol SH1 event he won on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Shot-putter Tek Chand was India’s flag-bearer for the Paralympics opening ceremony on 24 August after he replaced high jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu in the last minute.<\/p>\n
Mariyappan, who won a silver here, was quarantined along with five other Indians after coming in close contact of a COVID positive person during his flight to Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tokyo, Sep 4 (PTI): Shooter Avani Lekhara will be the flag bearer of country’s contingent during the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday. The 19-year-old trailblazer Lekhara had won a gold in R-2 women’s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event on Monday before claiming the 50m Rifle 3 Position SH1 bronze on Friday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-170901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}