Important About PARALYMPIC Games 2016 (1 marks)

IMPORTANT POINTS of Paralympic Games 2016

Details and highlights of Paralympic Games 2016

A lot of athelets have represented India in Paralympic games which are as under:

Athlete	Sports event
Mariyappan Thangavelu	High jump
Varun Singh Bhati	High jump
Sharad Kumar	High jump
Rampal Chahar	High jump
Pooja	Archery
Sundar Singh Gurjar	Javelin throw
Devendra Jhajaria	Javelin throw
Rinku	Javelin throw
Narender Ranbir	Javelin throw
Sandeep	Javelin throw
Amit Kumar Saroha	Club throw
Dharambir	Club throw
Deepa Malik	Shot put
Naresh Kumar Sharma	Shooting
Suyash Narayan Jadhav	Swimming

Imp news to remember:

Devendra Jhajharia won gold and set a new world record in javelin throw F46 event in the Rio 2016 Paralympics

Deepa Malik bagged a silver medal in the women’s shotput F53 event, with a personal best throw of 4.61 metres

Mariyappan Thangavelu had won gold in the Men’s High Jump T42 category  with fellow Indian Varun Bhati taking bronze at the same event.

South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius sprint around the 400m track was the first time in history that a double-amputee had raced at the Olympic Games

These sportsmen have proved that will is a bigger thing and they can achieve what can be dreamt by them. They have also proved that being handicapped is not a curse and rather hard work can work out to achieve any success.