It’s best-ever games for para athletes, script history with record 7 medals

Indian para shot putter Soman Rana clinched gold in the men’s F57 event as he hurled the globe for a season’s best 13.40m to stand on top of the podium on Sunday. Compatriot Shubham Juyal (season’s best 13.28m) pocketed the silver, while Cameron’s Cedric Azamdzi (12.57m) took home the bronze as Indian para sports athletes scripted history in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games by equalling the haul of all the previous editions put together, winning seven medals.

The 28-member Indian para sports contingent ended their campaign with 3 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze. There is no Indian event in para sports on Sunday.

It is the best-ever performance for Indian para sports in the CWG. Since the introduction of parasports in the CWG in 2002 edition in Manchester, India have won a total of seven medals - one gold, two silver and four bronze.


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Before Glasgow, the 2022 Birmingham Games was the most productive one for Indian para sports with Bhavina Patel and Sonalben Patel winning a gold and a bronze respectively in para table tennis.

Sudhir, who won gold in para powerlifting in Birmingham, was later stripped of his medal after failing an in-competition dope test.

In Glasgow, para track and field athletes scooped six medals - 3 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze - while Jhandu Kumar clinched the other bronze in para powerlifting.

The para athletics team also ended India’s 20-year wait for a medal at the CWG. The last medal from para athletics before Glasgow came from Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan in the men’s seated Discus Throw event in the 2006 edition.

There were three double podium finishes in para athletics in Glasgow—Sharmila (gold) and Shilpa Shyla (bronze) in women’s shot put F57; Dilip Mahadu Gavit (gold) and Mohammed Basil (silver) in men’s 100m T47; and Soman Rana (gold) and Shubham Juyal (silver) in men’s Shot Put F57.