Paris Paralympics 2024: Preethi Pal Clinches Bronze Medal In Women's 200m T35 Final

Paris Paralympics 2024: Preethi Pal has scripted history in the Paris Paralympics. The Indian athlete won India's first-ever bronze in the 200m in the women's T35 event. This is Preethi's second medal in the ongoing Paralympics.

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. 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.

(With PTI inputs)