CWG 2022: Bhavinaben Patel Wins Gold In Para Table Tennis Women’s Singles

Star Indian para desk tennis participant Bhavina Patel received a gold medal within the girls’s singles class 3-5 on the Commonwealth Games right here on Saturday. The 35-year-old from Gujarat, who had received a silver at Tokyo Paralympics, prevailed 12-10 11-2 11-9 over Nigeria’s Ifechukwude Christiana Ikpeoyi to cap off an outstanding present on the quadrennial occasion. Bhavina reached the world No. 2 rating by successful the silver medal within the particular person class on the 2011 PTT Thailand Open.

Besides, she additionally received a silver medal within the girls’s singles class 4 on the Asian Para Table Tennis Championships in Beijing in 2013.

In 2017, Bhavina bagged a bronze within the Asian Para Table Tennis Championships in Beijing. Sonalben Manubhai Patel additionally gave India a medal, claiming a bronze in girls’s singles class 3-5.

The 34-year-old Indian beat England’s Sue Bailey 11-5 11-2 11-3 within the bronze medal play-off.

However, Raj Aravindan Alagar misplaced to Nigeria’s Isau Ogunkunle 0-3 within the males’s singles courses 3-5 bronze medal play-off.

Para powerlifter Sudhir had additionally received a gold medal after scripting a Commonwealth Games document within the males’s heavyweight.

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In para desk tennis, courses 1-5 are for wheelchair athletes.

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