Paris, 7 Sep: India’s campaign in the Paralympics swimming ended when Suyash Jadhav failed to enter the final of the men’s 50m butterfly S7 here on Saturday.
\nCompeting in Heat 1, the 30-year-old finished in the fifth spot with a timing of 33.47, a 10th-spot finish overall. The top four swimmers from the two Heats make it to the final.
\nJadhav is a gold medal winner in Asian Para Games, Winter Open Polish Championships and IWAS World Games.
\nHailing from Solapur, Maharashtra, Jadhav accidentally touched an electric line while playing with an iron rod when he was in sixth grade.
\nSubsequently, both his hands were amputated below the elbow.
\nHe became the first Indian para swimmer to achieve the \u2018A\u2019 qualifying mark in three straight Paralympics — Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.
\nThe S7 category is for para swimmers with movement affected from a low to moderate level in arms, trunk and legs, moderately down one side, those with short stature, or the absence of limbs.
\nIndia has won only a medal in the sport in Paralympics to date, with Murlikant Petkar winning a gold in Heidelberg Games 1972. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paris, 7 Sep: India’s campaign in the Paralympics swimming ended when Suyash Jadhav failed to enter the final of the men’s 50m butterfly S7 here on Saturday. Competing in Heat 1, the 30-year-old finished in the fifth spot with a timing of 33.47, a 10th-spot finish overall. The top four swimmers from the two Heats […]<\/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-248038","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\/248038","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=248038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}