Paris Olympics 2024: Judoka Kapil Parmar Secures Bronze Medal in Men’s 60kg J1 Category

Judoka Kapil Parmar clinched a bronze medal in the men's -60kg J1 category at the Paris 2024 Paralympics on Thursday, bringing India's medal tally to 25.

New Delhi: Kapil Parmar created history on Thursday, 5 September, becoming the first-ever Indian to take a medal in para-judo at the Paralympic Games. He won the bronze medal in the men’s -60 kg category in the Paris 2024 Paralympics by defeating Elielton Oliveira with an overwhelming score of 10-0.

This was how the 24-year-old judoka from Sehor, Madhya Pradesh, leaped to a brilliant ippon-the highest possible score in judo-as he clinically dispatched his Brazilian opponent in the bronze medal match at Champ-de-Mars Arena.

Parmar’s bronze medal took India’s medal count in the 17th Paralympics to a record-extending 25. Three more events are scheduled later on Thursday and India is expected to add to the medal count. The country has taken its gold medal count equal to its best-ever haul of five, which came in the 2022 Tokyo Para Games. India is now ranked 13th in the medal table.

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Defeating WR 2 Elielton De Oliveira, Kapil Parmar secures India’s first-ever Paralympic medal in Judo! 🔥
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Kapil Parmar, silver medalist in the -60kg category in the 2022 Asian Games, clinched a bronze medal in men’s para-judo at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024 on September 5. In the bronze medal match, he outclassed Brazil’s Elielton Oliveira, coming up with a thumping 10-0 win to showcase his sublime skill with a brilliant ippon at the Champ-de-Mars Arena. Incidentally, both of them got yellow cards on the same day, but these yellow cards hardly mattered as their good performance has been a big boost for India which now has a record-extending 25 medals at the Games. Parmar from Shivor in Madhya Pradesh is from a humble background. His father is a taxi driver and sister runs a primary school. Adding much depth to his remarkable journey, as a child, he survived with a very bad electric shock that put him into a coma.