Tokyo Paralympics: Gujarat Govt announces Rs 3 crore to silver medallist Bhavina Patel

India
marks
the
sports
day
on
August
29
on
the
birth
anniversary
of
hockey
legend
Major
Dhyan
Chand,
the
country’s
most
decorated
athlete
of
all
time.

On
Sunday,
Patel
–
a
resident
of
Sundhiya
village
in
Gujarat’s
Mehsana
district
–
went
down
0-3
to
world
number
one
and
two-time
gold
medallist
Chinese
paddler
Ying
Zhou
to
win
the
silver
medal
in
her
maiden
Paralympic
Games.

Tokyo
Paralympics
2020:
Bhavina
Patel
wins
historic
silver
medal
in
table
tennis

“Chief
Minister
Vijay
Rupani
has
congratulated
Bhavina
Patel,
daughter
of
Mehsana
district
of
Gujarat,
for
making
the
country
proud
by
her
outstanding
achievements
in
table
tennis
at
the
Paralympic
Games,”
the
Chief
Minister’s
Office
said
in
a
note.

It
said
the
CM
has
announced
an
award
of
Rs
3
crore
as
an
incentive
to
Patel
under
the
state
government’s
‘Divyang
Khel
Pratibha
Protsahan
Puraskar
Yojana’ for
making
Gujarat
and
India
proud
at
the
global
level
with
her
sports
skills.

Bhavinaben
Patel
wins
Paralympic
silver
in
Tokyo:
President,
PM
lead
country
to
hail
para-paddler

Patel,
who
was
diagnosed
with
polio
when
she
was
12-month-old,
had
defeated
world
no
3
Miao
Zhang
of
China
7-11
11-7
11-4
9-11
11-8
in
the
semi-final
showdown
on
Saturday.

With
this
medal,
Indian
team
opened
its
account
at
the
Games.
Deepa
Malik,
who
is
the
current
president
of
Paralympic
Committee
of
India
(PCI),
was
the
first
Indian
woman
to
win
a
medal
in
the
Paralympic
Games
when
she
had
claimed
a
silver
in
shotput
at
Rio
five
years
back.

Bhavina
Patel
wins
silver
medal
at
Tokyo
Paralympics:
Rahul
Gandhi,
Arvind
Kejriwal
hail
her

“I’m
extremely
delighted
to
win
a
medal
but
also
a
bit
disappointed
as
well.
I
got
a
bit
nervous,”
Patel,
who
also
became
the
first
Indian
to
win
a
Paralympic
medal
in
table
tennis,
was
quoted
as
saying
by
International
Paralympic
Committee.

“I
can
only
assure
you
that
next
time
I
meet
her
you
will
see
a
different
me.
She
clearly
got
the
better
of
me
and
had
all
the
shots
in
her
book
to
outsmart
by
effort.
However,
this
medal
will
go
a
long
way
and
I
can
assure
you
that,”
she
said.