Finance
Mandeep Kaur and Nithya Sre won gold medals as India’s para-badminton contingent finished the 4 Nations Para-Badminton International 2022 with 11 medals on Sunday.
The Indian team will return home with two gold medals, four silver medals, and five bronze medals.
Kaur, who had a great season with gold and three silver medals prior to the Ireland event, defeated a tenacious Oksana Kozyna of Ukraine in her final women’s singles SL3 game 21-18, 21-18 to win the gold.
Kaur and Chirag Baretha also won silver in the mixed doubles SL3-SU5 event, losing in the final to French top seed Lucas Mazur and Faustine Noel 14-21, 18-21.
Meanwhile, Sre overcame a second-game scare from England’s Rachel Choong to win the women’s singles SH6 gold medal 21-14, 18-21, 21-7 in 32 minutes.
However, in the men’s singles SL3 final, Pramod Bhagat had to settle for silver after losing to his archrival Daniel Bethell of England 17-9, 9-21.
Silver medalists included Abu Hubaida (mixed doubles WH1-WH2) and Baretha & Hardik Makkar (men’s doubles SU5), while bronze went to Nilesh Balu Gaikwad (MS SL4), Deep Ranjan Bisoyee (2. MS SL4), Nitesh Kumar (MS SL3), Charanjeet Kaur (WS SL3), and Nilesh Gaikwad &
Next month, the Indian Para-Badminton team will compete in the Thailand Para-Badminton International 2022.
Source:OCN
