Tokyo: The world champion ruled Pramod Bhagat on Saturday claiming a historic gold medal in the men’s Singles SL3 class while Manoj Sarkar bagged bronze when India smoke them in Tokyo Paralympics.
Bhagat beat Daniel Britain Raya Bethell at Clash Summit while Sarkar beat Japan Daisuke Fujihara in third place play-off, with both Indians who won in direct match.
In the SL3 classification, athletes with lower limb disorders are permitted to compete.
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1, thus becomes the first Indian to win a gold medal in sports.
Indians are top seed, also an Asian champion, showing great mental disability when he won 21-14, 21-17 on the second seed with a thrilling final which lasted 45 minutes at the Yoyogi National Stadium.
The 33-year-old child from Bhubaneswar also remained in a dispute for a bronze medal in the SL3-SU5 mixed class.
Bhagat and his colleague Palak Kohli will directly fight Japan from Japan Daisuke Fujihara and Akiko Sugino in the Bronze Play Off medal on Sunday.
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Bhagat, who has contracted Polio when he was 4 years old, took sports after watching his neighbor play.
Initially, he competed against a capable player before entering badminton badminton badminton in 2006.
He finally appeared as one of the best aircraft shutters in the country with 45 international medals under his belt, including four world championship gold medals and Gold and a bronze in 2018 Asian Games para.
He has also started his career as a badminton coach but breaks in 2019 to focus on the Tokyo paralympics qualification.
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Sarkar was 31 years old, whose right leg was affected after he contracted Polio at the age of one year, showing great resilience during a 22-20 victory, 21-13 over Fujihara.
In the semifinals, Sarkar could not enter into any rhythm against second seed Daniel Bethell England, down 8-21, 10-21 in the men’s Singles SL3 class.
But he recovered quickly from defeat to produce extraordinary shows to claim bronze.
Sarkar had taken badminton at the age of five but it was a passion to win against his brothers who guided him to play sports seriously.
He played competition between schools against the agreed players who were able to 11th grade before starting to compete in badminton in 2011.
He won a gold medal at SL3 Singles at the 2016 Asian Championship in Beijing.
In 2018, he received the Arjuna award and a year later, he was named the Sportsman of the Year at the Sportstar Aces Awards.
Previously on that day, Suhas Yathiraj and Krishna Nagar also sailed to the SL4 men’s singles final and SH6 class.