Paris 2024 Paralympics, India’s schedule: Know key dates, matches and event times

By Prathamesh Palshikar
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Sumit Antil
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The Paris 2024 Paralympics schedule for India starts on August 28 and will conclude on September 9. India’s largest-ever Paralympic contingent of 84 members is set to compete across 12 sports in France.

A 38-member para athletics team, headlined by Tokyo 2020 para javelin champion Sumit Antil, is almost half the Indian Paralympic team at Paris 2024. They will be competing in 12 medal events.

Para badminton and para shooting, meanwhile, will see 13 and 10 athletes, respectively, aim for the Paralympic podium. For the first time at the Paralympic Games, India will take part in para cycling, para judo and para rowing.

Indian athletes will also participate in para archery, para canoe, para powerlifting, para swimming, para table tennis and para taekwondo.

At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, India returned with 19 medals - five gold, eight silver and six bronze - making it the country’s biggest medal haul at the Paralympic Games.

Notably, Avani Lekhara (para shooting), Sumit Antil (para athletics), Manish Narwal (para shooting) and Krishna Nagar (para badminton) will be defending their Paralympic titles at Paris 2024.

Antil, a para javelin world record holder in the F64 category, will take the field on September 2 in the javelin throw final. Starting August 28, Lekhara will take aim in three medal events while Manish will kick off his campaign a day later.

Krishna, meanwhile, will start his quest for back-to-back men’s singles badminton gold medals on August 29 in the group stage.

Paris 2024 Paralympics: India’s schedule

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India’s full schedule for Paris 2024 Paralympics: Day-by-day

All times in Indian standard Time (IST)

August 28, Wednesday

Ceremony

  • Opening Ceremony - 11:30 PM

August 29, Thursday

Para badminton

  • Mixed doubles group stage - 12:00 PM onwards
  • Men’s singles group stage - 12:00 PM onwards
  • Women’s singles group stage - 12:00 PM onwards

Para swimming

  • Men’s 50m freestyle S10 - 1:00 PM onwards

Para table tennis

  • Women’s doubles - 1:30 PM onwards
  • Men’s doubles - 1:30 PM onwards
  • Mixed doubles - 1:30 PM onwards

Para taekwondo

  • Women’s K44-47kg - 1:30 PM onwards

Para shooting

  • Women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 pre-event training - 2:30 PM
  • Mixed 10m air rifle standing SH2 pre-event training - 4:00 PM
  • Men’s 10m air pistol SH1 pre-event training - 5:45 PM

Para cycling

  • Women’s C1-3 3000m individual pursuit qualifying - 4:25 PM

Para archery

  • Women’s individual compound open ranking round - 4:30 PM
  • Men’s individual recurve open ranking round - 4:30 PM
  • Men’s individual compound open ranking round - 8:30 PM
  • Women’s individual recurve open ranking round - 8:30 PM

August 30, Friday

Para taekwondo

  • Women’s K44-47kg gold medal contest - 12:04 AM

Para badminton

  • Women’s singles group stage - 12:00 PM onwards
  • Men’s singles group stage - 12:00 PM onwards
  • Mixed doubles group stage - 7:30 PM onwards

Para archery

  • Women’s individual compound open round of 32 - 12:30 PM onwards
  • Men’s individual compound open round of 32 - 7:00 PM onwards

Para shooting

  • Women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 qualification - 12:30 PM
  • Men’s 10m air pistol SH1 qualification - 2:30 PM
  • Women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 final - 3:15 PM
  • Mixed 10m air rifle standing SH2 qualification - 5:00 PM
  • Men’s 10m air pistol SH1 final - 5:30 PM
  • Women’s 10m air pistol SH2 pre-event training - 7:00 PM
  • Mixed 10m air rifle standing SH2 final - 7:45 PM
  • Men’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 pre-event training - 8:30 PM

Para athletics

  • Women’s discus throw F55 final - 1:30 PM
  • Women’s 100m T35 final - 4:39 PM

Para table tennis

  • Men’s doubles quarter-finals - 1:30 PM onwards
  • Women’s doubles quarter-finals - 1:30 PM onwards
  • Mixed doubles quarter-finals - 1:30 PM onwards

Para rowing

  • Mixed doubles sculls PR3 heats - 3:00 PM

Para cycling

  • Men’s C2 3000m individual pursuit qualifying - 4:24 PM
  • Men’s C2 3000m individual pursuit final bronze - 7:11 PM
  • Men’s C2 3000m individual pursuit final gold - 7:19 PM

August 31, Saturday

Para athletics

  • Men’s shot put F37 final - 12:20 AM
  • Men’s javelin throw F57 final - 10:30 PM

Para shooting

  • Men’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 qualification - 1:00 PM
  • Women’s 10m air pistol SH1 qualification - 3:30 PM
  • Men’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 final - 3:45 PM
  • Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH2 pre-event training - 5:30 PM
  • Women’s 10m air pistol SH1 final - 6:15 PM
  • Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1 pre-event training - 7:00 PM

Para cycling

  • Women’s C1-3 500m time trial qualifying - 1:30 PM
  • Men’s C1-3 1000m time trial qualifying - 1:49 PM
  • Women’s C1-3 500m time trial final - 5:05 PM
  • Men’s C1-3 1000m time trial final - 5:32 PM

Para table tennis

  • Women’s doubles WD10 semi-finals - 1:30 PM onwards
  • Women’s doubles WD10 gold medal match - 10:45 PM

Para rowing

  • Mixed doubles sculls PR3 repechages - 2:40 PM

Para archery

  • Women’s individual compound open round of 16 - 7:00 PM onwards
  • Women’s individual compound open quarter-finals - 9:16 PM onwards
  • Women’s individual compound open semi-finals - 10:14 PM onwards

Para badminton

  • Mixed doubles semi-finals - 7:30 PM onwards

September 1, Sunday

Para badminton

  • Men’s singles semi-finals - 12:00 PM onwards
  • Women’s singles semi-finals - 12:00 PM onwards
  • Finals matches - 10:10 PM onwards

Para shooting

  • Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1 qualification - 1:00 PM
  • Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH2 qualification - 3:00 PM
  • Mixed 25m pistol SH1 pre-event training - 4:00 PM
  • Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1 final - 4:30 PM
  • Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH2 final - 6:30 PM

Para athletics

  • Women’s 1500m T11 round 1 - 1:40 PM
  • Men’s shot put F40 final - 3:09 PM
  • Men’s high jump T47 final - 10:58 PM
  • Women’s 200m T35 final - 11:08 PM

Para rowing

  • Mixed doubles sculls PR3 final B - 2:00 PM
  • Mixed doubles sculls PR3 final A - 3:40 PM

Para archery

  • Men’s individual compound open round of 16 - 7:00 PM onwards
  • Men’s individual compound open quarter-finals - 9:16 PM onwards
  • Men’s individual compound open semi-finals - 10:24 PM onwards
  • Men’s individual compound open bronze medal match - 11:13 PM
  • Men’s individual compound open gold medal match - 11:30 PM

Para table tennis

  • Women’s singles round of 32 - 10:30 PM onwards
  • Women’s singles round of 16 - 10:30 PM onwards

September 2, Monday

Para shooting

  • Mixed 25m pistol SH1 qualification precision - 12:30 PM
  • Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 pre-event training - 12:30 PM
  • Men’s 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 pre-event training - 12:30 PM
  • Mixed 25m pistol SH1 qualification rapid - 4:30 PM
  • Mixed 25m pistol SH1 final - 8:15 PM

Para athletics

  • Men’s discus throw F56 final - 1:35 PM
  • Women’s 1500m T11 final - 1:40 PM
  • Men’s javelin throw F64 final - 10:30 PM
  • Women’s discus throw F53 final - 10:34 PM
  • Women’s 400m T20 round 1 - 11:50 PM

Para table tennis

  • Women’s singles round of 32 - 1:30 PM onwards
  • Women’s singles round of 16 - 1:30 PM onwards

Para archery

  • Mixed team compound open round of 16 - 7:00 PM onwards
  • Mixed team compound open quarter-finals - 8:20 PM onwards
  • Mixed team compound open semi-finals - 9:40 PM onwards
  • Mixed team compound open bronze medal match - 10:35 PM
  • Mixed team compound open gold medal match - 10:55 PM

Para badminton

  • Finals matches - 8:00 PM onwards

September 3, Tuesday

Para archery

  • Women’s individual recurve open round of 32 - 12:30 PM onwards
  • Women’s individual recurve open round of 16 - 12:30 PM onwards
  • Women’s individual recurve open quarter-finals - 8:30 PM onwards
  • Women’s individual recurve open semi-finals - 9:38 PM onwards
  • Women’s individual recurve open bronze medal match - 10:27 PM
  • Women’s individual recurve open gold medal match - 10:44 PM

Para shooting

  • Women’s 50m air rifle 3 positions SH1 qualification - 1:00 PM
  • Men’s 50m air rifle 3 positions SH1 qualification - 1:00 PM
  • Mixed 50m rifle prone SH2 pre-event training - 4:15 PM
  • Mixed 50m pistol SH1 pre-event training - 6:00 PM
  • Women’s 50m air rifle 3 positions SH1 final - 7:30 PM

Para athletics

  • Women’s shot put F34 final - 2:26 PM
  • Women’s 400m T20 final - 10:38 PM
  • Men’s high jump T63 final - 11:40 PM

Para table tennis

  • Women’s singles round of 16/quarter-finals/semi-finals - 1:30 PM onwards
  • Men’s singles round of 16/quarter-finals/semi-finals - 1:30 PM onwards

September 4, Wednesday

Para athletics

  • Men’s javelin throw F46 final - 12:10 AM
  • Men’s shot put F46 final - 1:35 PM
  • Women’s shot put F46 final - 3:16 PM
  • Men’s club throw F51 final - 10:50 PM
  • Women’s 100m T12 round 1 - 11:00 PM

Para cycling

  • Women’s C1-3 road time trial - 11:30 AM onwards

Para archery

  • Men’s individual recurve open round of 32 - 12:30 PM onwards
  • Men’s individual recurve open round of 16 - 12:30 PM onwards
  • Men’s individual recurve open quarter-finals - 9:00 PM onwards
  • Men’s individual recurve open semi-finals - 10:08 PM onwards
  • Men’s individual recurve open bronze medal match - 10:54 PM
  • Men’s individual recurve open gold medal match - 11:14 PM

Para shooting

  • Mixed 50m pistol SH1 qualification - 1:00 PM
  • Mixed 50m pistol SH1 final - 3:45 PM
  • Mixed 50m rifle prone SH2 - 4:00 PM
  • Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 pre-event training - 5:30 PM
  • Mixed 50m rifle prone SH2 final - 6:30 PM

Para table tennis

  • Women’s singles quarterfinals/semi-finals/finals - 1:30 PM onwards

Para powerlifting

  • Men’s up to 49kg final - 3:30 PM
  • Women’s up to 45kg final - 8:30 PM

August 5, Thursday

Para shooting

  • Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 qualification - 1:00 PM
  • Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 final - 3:15 PM

Para athletics

  • Women’s 100m T12 semi-finals - 3:10 PM
  • Women’s 100m T12 final - 10:47 PM
  • Men’s shot put F35 final - 11:49 PM

Para judo

  • Women’s 48kg preliminary rounds - 1:30 PM onwards
  • Men’s 60kg preliminary rounds - 1:30 PM onwards
  • Women’s 48kg finals - 7:30 PM onwards
  • Men’s 48kg finals - 7:30 PM onwards

Para archery

  • Mixed team recurve open quarter-finals - 6:30 PM onwards
  • Mixed team recurve open semi-finals - 7:50 PM onwards
  • Mixed team recurve open bronze medal match - 8:45 PM
  • Mixed team recurve open gold medal match - 9:05 PM

Para powerlifting

  • Men’s up to 65kg final - 10:05 PM

August 6, Friday

Para athletics

  • Women’s 200m T12 round 1 - 1:39 PM
  • Men’s javelin throw F54 final - 2:08 PM
  • Men’s 400m T47 round 1 - 2:47 PM
  • Men’s high jump T64 final - 3:18 PM
  • Men’s shot put F57 final - 10:30 PM
  • Women’s javelin throw F46 final - 10:38 PM
  • Women’s 200m T12 semi-finals - 11:10 PM

Para canoe

  • Men’s kayak single KL1 200m heats - 1:30 PM
  • Women’s Va’a single VL2 200m heats - 1:50 PM
  • Women’s kayak single KL1 200m heats - 2:55 PM

Para table tennis

  • Women’s singles WS3 semi-finals - 1:30 PM
  • Women’s singles WS3 gold medal match - 11:45 PM

Para powerlifting

  • Women’s up to 67kg final - 8:30 PM

September 7, Saturday

Para cycling

  • Women’s C1-3 road race - 1:00 PM
  • Men’s C1-3 road race - 1:00 PM

Para canoe

  • Men’s kayak single KL1 200m semi-finals - 1:30 PM
  • Women’s Va’a single VL2 200m semi-finals - 1:58 PM
  • Men’s kayak single KL1 200m final A - 2:50 PM
  • Women’s Va’a single VL2 200m final B - 3:14 PM
  • Women’s Va’a single VL2 200m final A - 3:22 PM

Para table tennis

  • Women’s singles WS4 semi-finals - 1:30 PM onwards
  • Women’s singles WS4 gold medal match - 9:30 PM

Para athletics

  • Men’s javelin throw F41 final - 10:30 PM
  • Women’s 200m T12 final - 11:03 PM

September 8, Sunday

Para canoe

  • Women’s kayak single KL1 200m semi-finals - 1:30 PM
  • Women’s kayak single KL1 200m final A - 2:55 PM

September 9, Monday

Ceremony

  • Closing Ceremony - 12:30 AM