Tokyo: Indian swimmers Suyash Narayan Jadhav and Niranjan Mukundan failed to qualify for the S7 class final in the men’s 50m butterfly event at the Tokyo Paralympics on Friday. This is the first time since 1972 that India has had para swimmers compete at the Games.
Jadhav, who won a gold medal at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta, finished fifth in heat 1 with a time of 32.36s, 2.65 seconds behind Austin Evan of the United States (29.71). On the other hand, Mukundan, a 26-year-old Bengaluru native, came sixth in heat 2 with a time of 33.82s.
In other events, India’s Prachi Yadav finished seventh in the women’s solo 200m VL2 canoe sprint final, while Praveen Kumar won silver in the men’s high jump T64 event, bringing the country’s medal tally to 11.
