India at Paralympics 2024, Day 10 as it happened: Navdeep Singh clinches gold, Simran wins bronze

That’s it from us tonight!

Another fruitful day for India at the Paris Paralympic Games with Navdeep Singh winning gold and Simran winning bronze at the Stade de France.

Those two medals marked the end of a successful campaign for the Indian para athletics contingent in Paris with four gold, six silver and seven bronze medals for a total of 17 medals. In contrast, the entire Indian Paralympic contingent won 19 medals at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, it’s best ever haul before the Paris Games.

Pooja Ojha will be looking to get India to the 30-medal mark tomorrow when she takes part in the women’s 200m kayak single KL1 event.

Athletics, men’s 400m T47 final: Gavit got off to a good start and was within touching distance of a podium finish as they came around the bend. However, it looks like the lactic acid build up was too much and Gavit loses steam in the final 100m to finish last in the nine-athlete race with a time of 49.99m.

Athletics, men’s 400m T47 final: Dilip Gavit is the final Indian in action in track and field at the Paris Paralympics. The Asian Para Games gold medallist is one of the medal contenders in the event. Can he take India past the 30-medal mark?

Athletics, men’s javelin F41 final: Late drama as Sadegh Beit Sayah is disqualified and stripped off the gold medal! Sayah is deemed to have broken rule 8.1 which pertains to unsporting conduct. As a result, Navdeep Singh is upgraded to gold medal!

Athletics, men’s javelin F41 final: Navdeep’s cannot break the Paralympic Record once again with his final throw! He wins India’s 29th medal in Paris!

Athletics, women’s 200m T12 final: Simran wins India’s 28th medal in Paris! She clocks a personal best time of 24.75s to win bronze!

Athletics, men’s javelin F41 final: Iran’s Sadegh Beit Sayah breaks Navdeep’s Paralympic Record with his fifth throw and takes the lead by just 0.32m!

Athletics, men’s javelin F41 final: Not a great throw by Navdeep’s standards. Falls well below the 45m mark. Singh dangles a leg over the stop line, has an animates conversation with his coach in the stands who tells him to foul it and Singh plants the leg behind the line. The red flag goes up and the throw will not be recorded.

Athletics, men’s javelin F41 final: Navdeep Singh breaks the Paralympic Record! He knew it as soon as the javelin left his hand and it lands at 47.32m! Navdeep storms to the top of the standings in the final!

Athletics, men’s javelin F41 final: A much better second attempt from Navdeep and it is a new personal best for the Indian! The javelin soars past the 45m mark and lands at 46.39m. Singh is pumped up and how!

Athletics, men’s javelin F41 final: Navdeep Singh throws beyond the 40m mark but cannot stop his run up in time and falls past the stop line.

Athletics, men’s javelin F41 final: The first final of the night sees Navdeep Singh, the 2024 Kobe World Championship bronze medallist in action.

Athletics: We’re in the final day of athletics for India at the Paris Paralympic Games with a potential three medals to be won. We start with the men’s javelin F41 final followed by the women’s T12 200m final and the men’s 400m T47 final.

We’ll be back shortly!

There are three more Indian paralympians who will be in action later tonight. Navdeep will be in the hunt for a medal in the men’s javelin F41 final with India’s campaign in track and field coming to an end with Simran competing in the women’s T12 200m final and Dilip Gavit in the men’s 400m T47 final.

Cycling, C1-3 road race: India’s Jyoti Gaderiya and Arshad Shaik finish one lap behind in their respective women’s and men’s races.

Canoe, women's va'a single 200m VL2 final: Prachi Yadav finishes eight in the final with a time of 1:08.55 min. The Indian had a bad start and never recovered from it.

Canoe, women's va'a single 200m VL2 semi-final: Prachi Yadav finishes third and is through to the final which takes place at 3:22 pm.

Canoe, women's va'a single 200m VL2 semi-final: Prachi Yadav will look to make it to the top 3 in her heat to progress to the final.

Swimming, men's 50m butterfly S7 heats: Suyash Jadhav finishes fifth in his heat and is 10th overall. But he has been marked as the second reserve in case one of the eight finalists is unable to compete later.

Swimming, men's 50m butterfly S7 heats: Suyash Jadhav is in action next. Only the eight fastest swimmers will progress to the final. 12 swimmers are competing, split into two heats of six each.

Canoe, men's kayak single 200m KL1 semi-final: Yash Kumar finishes in fifth place in his semi-final and is out of the contest.

Canoe, men's kayak single 200m KL1 semi-final: Yash Kumar is in action in the semi-finals. Only the top three in each semi-final will make it through to the final.

Cycling, women's C1-3 road race: Jyoti Gaderiya is next in action. Her race distance is 56.8 km.

Cycling, men's C1-3 road race: Arshad Shaik up in action first for the Indian contingent today. He's up in the 71 km race.

China continues to dominate the medal tally with Great Britain in second place, having also hit the 100 medal-mark. India is in 17th place with 27 medals – six gold, nine silver and 12 bronze.

Hello and welcome to Scroll’s coverage of Day 10 of the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

India’s record medal tally has continued to swell, and there is an expectation that there may be a few more podium finishes on the last day of competitions.

Simran Sharma, the reigning world champion, is the favourite to win the women’s 200m T12 event later today.

But before the athletics events in the evening, the cyclists, canoeists and swimmer Suyash Jadhav will be in action today.

Stay tuned!

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