Indian para-cyclists win one silver, two bronze |
The India team underlined their supremacy in the Asian Para-Cycling Championships by posting three podium finishes, at the Wunna Theikdi Sport Stadium in Naypyidaw, Myanmar on Feb 9, 2018. In 2017, silver medalist and Bangalore resident Divij Shah led India`s charge in the para-cycling category winning yet another silver medal, while BSF soldier Harinder Singh bagged the bronze. Harinder had won a bronze medal in 2017`s edition as well. New entrant Madhu Bagri, meanwhile won the bronze in the hand-cycling, a category where India made a maiden participation and Bagri become the first Para Cyclist to win an international medal in Hand Cycling. She is a former national wheelchair national tennis champion and shifted her focus recently to para-cycling after coach Aditya Mehta encouraged her to switch sports and try hand in hand cycling in mid 2017.
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