Sports News | Preethi Pal Wins Bronze in T35 200m, Her Second Medal at Paris Paralympics
Get latest articles and stories on Sports at LatestLY. India's Preethi Pal won a bronze in women's 200m T35 category, her second medal of Paris Paralympics, with a personal best time of 30.01 seconds on Sunday.
Paris, Sep 1 (PTI) India's Preethi Pal won a bronze in women's 200m T35 category, her second medal of Paris Paralympics, with a personal best time of 30.01 seconds on Sunday.
The bronze won by the 23-year-old Preethi was also India's second para-athletics medal in the Paris Games.
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T35 classification is meant for athletes who have coordination impairments such as hypertonia, ataxia and athetosis.
On Friday, she had clinched India's first athletics medal in a Paralympics track event, winning a bronze in the women's T35 100m competition with a personal best time of 14.21 seconds.
All the athletics medals India had won since the 1984 edition of the Paralympics have come from the field events. 7/21/2024
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