Tokyo Paralympics: Avani Lekhara to be India’s flag-bearer at closing ceremony

Tokyo: Shooter Avani Lekhara would be the flag bearer of country’s contingent right in the course of the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics on Sunday. The 19-year-frail trailblazer Lekhara had won a gold in R-2 girls folk’s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event on Monday ahead of claiming the 50m Rifle 3 Location SH1 bronze on Friday. 

“Avani would be the flag bearer and there will be 11 individuals from the Indian contingent right in the course of the closing ceremony,” an knowledgeable of the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) acknowledged.

Lekhara, who used to be paralysed below the waist after a automobile accident in 2012, is finest the Indian to earn a pair of medals in a single model of the Video games. Earlier than Lekhara, Joginder Singh Sodhi whad won a silver and two bronze medals within the 1984 Paralympics. 

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One more shooter Singhraj Adana joined the unfamiliar membership on Saturday when he added a silver in P4 Mixed 50m Pistol SH1 event to the bronze within the P1 men’s 10m air pistol SH1 event he won on Tuesday.

Shot-putter Tek Chand used to be India’s flag-bearer for the Paralympics opening ceremony on August 24 after he modified excessive jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu within the final minute.

Mariyappan, who won a silver on the event, used to be quarantined in conjunction with five diversified Indians after coming in close contact of a COVID obvious person right through his flight to Tokyo.