TOKYO PARALYMPICS 2021

1. Pramod Bhagat wins 1st ever #GOLD for #IND in #ParaBadminton. HE IS A FOURTH GOLD MEDAL LIST IN TOKOYO PARALYMPICS FOR INDIA. HE IS WORLD NO 1 Ranked in para badminton sl3  player.
He is born in odisha. At the age of only 5,he found problem in left leg. Previous he has won 24 gold medal and total 46 medal in his list.
he enter the semifinal beating Ukraine's player Oleksandr Chyrkov in his second group league.  Till the to come in final  he beat fellow Indian, Manoj Sarkar, ukraine player Oleksandr Chyrkov and Daisuke Fujihara
He overcomes from that second set of the deficit to win the gold title from 21-14, 21-17 against #GBR's player Daniel Bethell in the #ParaBadminton Men's Singles SL3 Final.

BRONZE FOR MANOJ SARKAR 🎉

The 31-year-old wins a Bronze Medal in Para-Badminton - Men's Singles SL3 category . MANOJ SARKAR defeated Japan's PLAYER Daisuke Fujihara 22-20,21-13 in the final to increase India's medal rush in Tokoyo PARALYMPICS 2021.

INDIA HAVE IT'S seventeenth medal and the sixth #Bronze MEDAL IN THE TOKOYO  PARALYMPICS 2021

In 19 minutes, he won the second game 21-13 to seal another medal for the country in badminton.Manoj Manoj had to battle hard against his Japanese counterpart in the first game. However, he won his second group 21-16,21-9 against Ukraine's Oleksandr Chyrkov to make the semifinals. Earlier, Manoj's Paralympics campaign did not get off to a bright start in Group A. In the last-four stage, he went to Great Britain's Daniel Bethell 8-21,10-21 to qualify for the bronze medal match. He lost his first game 10-21, 23-21,9-21 to compatriot Pramod Bhagat. Despite leading 18-14, the Indian was taken aback by Fujihara's comeback, who stormed to the game point opportunity first. However, Manoj kept his nerves and eventually claimed the game 22-20.

He played inter-school competition against able-bodied players till the 11th grade before starting to compete in para-badminton in 2011. He won a gold medal in the SL3 singles at the 2016 Asian Championships in Beijing. In 2018, he received the Arjuna Award and a year later, he was named Para Sportsman of the Year at the Sportstar Aces Awards. Sarkar had taken up badminton at age five but it was the passion to win against his elder brothers which led him to play the sports seriously. But he recovered quickly from the defeat to produce a superb show to claim the bronze.the the semifinals, 31-year-old Manoj, who whose right leg was affected after he contracted polio at age one, couldn't get into any sort of rhythm against second seeded Great Britain's Daniel Bethell, going down 8-21 10-21 in the men's singles SL3 class.