Six medals from Indian para-shuttlers at USA Para-Badminton International 2017

While India is hooked to Srikanth’s summit clash on 29th October, top seeded para-shuttler Mark Joseph Dharmai, who goes with the line ‘The disability doesn’t need to define your life’, silently clinched Gold in D-SS6 category at USA Para-Badminton International 2017 held in Colorado from October 26th to 29th. It is not just that, the shuttler also ended up with silver in another match of MS-SS6. 

With mark’s Gold and Silver, Indian powerhouse won as high as 6 medals, which also includes 2 silver and 2 bronze medals. 

Anand Kumar added two silver medals to his kitty in MS SL4 and D SL3-SL4 categories, while, Satyam Janapareddi and Manasi Joshi won bronze each in MD SU5 and WS SL4 respectively. 

Indian team and medal winners at recently concluded USA #parabadminton intl 2017 in Colorado Springs, USA pic.twitter.com/2ae0u3lHD5

— Indian Parabadminton (@parabadmintonIN) October 31, 2017

Indian para-shuttlers, who won 8 medals at the Japan Para-Badminton International in September is gearing up for the up for the 11th edition of BWF Para-Badminton World Championships which will be held in Ulsan, South Korea from  21-26 November 2017. 

One thing I learned in this USA Parabadminton International, is that always always show up no matter what. As I mentioned before, in WS our categories got combined and I played SU5. But I also played an SL4 WS playoff which I lost and still managed to get a bronze medal. Although not very happy with the tournament because of extreme combination in all the categories, had fun nonetheless. Thank you @welspungroup & @divitascapital for sponsoring this tournament. Now enjoying some time with @samyukta_bharadwaj before we gear up for our world championship training camp

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