LIMA, 6 Dec: Mandeep Kaur shocked world champion Oksana Kozyna in the final, while Nehal Gupta claimed two gold medals as the Indian team signed off with 14 medals at the Peru Para Badminton International in Lima.
\nOverall, India claimed six gold, one silver and seven bronze medals to end the year on a satisfying note.
\nKaur, who lost to Kozyna in the semifinals of the Para World Championships in Tokyo last month, exacted revenge on the Ukrainian with a 21-11, 21-11 win to clinch the SL-3 women\u2019s singles title.
\n\u201cI came to participate in Peru International mainly for (beating) Oksana and I am glad to have settled the scores,\u201d said Kaur, who also took a silver and bronze medal in women\u2019s doubles and mixed doubles SL3-SU5 respectively.
\nKaur and Kelly Edith Ari Escalante lost to Parul Parmar and Vaishali Patel 17-21 19-21 in the women\u2019s doubles final.
\nMeanwhile, 17-year-old Gupta produced an impressive show to clinch two gold medals in men\u2019s singles SL3 and men\u2019s doubles SL3-SL4 events.
\nGupta first paired up with Brazilian Johann Breno to defeat local pair Renzo Diquez Bances Morales and Pedro Pablo De Vinatea 21-16, 21-13 in the doubles.
\nThen he got the better of top Frenchman Mathieu Thomas 21-16, 21-14 to win the singles crown.
\nThere was more joy for India as Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan surprised World\u2019s silver medallist Giuliana Poveda Flores of Peru 21-6, 21-13 in women\u2019s singles SH6 final to wrap up the year with a gold.
\nPara World Championships bronze medallist Sukant Kadam overcame Singapore\u2019s Chee Hiong Ang 21-14, 21-15 for the men\u2019s singles SL4 gold medal.
\nThe bronze medallists were Umesh Vikram Kumar (MS; SL3), Parul Parmar (WS; SL3), Nehal Gupta and Mandeep Kaur (XD; SL3-SU5), Arati Patil (WS; SU5), Rachana Patel and Nithya Sre (WD; SH6), Charanjeet Kaur (WD; SL3-SU5) and Dilleshwar Rao (MD; SL3-SL4). (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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