India competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. India made its official debut at the 1968 Summer Paralympics and has appeared in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since 1984.

India sent a contingent consisting of 54 athletes competing across nine sports in the Games. Athlete Tek Chand was the flag bearer during the opening ceremony and shooter Avani Lekhara carried the flag during the closing ceremony.

This was India's most successful Paralympic campaign at the time with 19 medals including five gold, eight silver and six bronze medals. Before this edition, India had won a combined total of 12 medals across all previous Paralympics combined.

Background The Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) was formed in 1994, five years after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) was established in 1989. The ninth International Stoke Mandville Games was later designated as the first Paralympics in 1960. The International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation organized the Paralympic Games till 1984. The 1988 Seoul Paralympics was the first to use the Paralympics name and the event has been held in the same host city as the corresponding Summer Olympic Games since then. The nation made its Paralympics debut in 1968 and have appeared in every edition of the Summer Paralympic Games since 1984. This edition of the Games marked the nation's 12th appearance at the Summer Paralympics.

The Indian contingent for the games consisted of 54 people across nine sports. Athlete Mariyappan Thangavelu was the designated flag bearer during the opening ceremony but was later replaced by Tek Chand due to COVID-19 quarantine regulations. Shooter Avani Lekhara carried the flag during the closing ceremony.

Medalists

This was India's most successful Paralympic campaign with 19 medals including five gold, eight silver and six bronze medals. Before this edition, India had won a combined total of 12 medals across all previous Paralympics combined

Bhavina Patel won India's first medal, a silver in Table Tennis. Avani Lekhara became the first Indian woman paralympic athlete to win a gold medal. She won another bronze medal to become the first Indian woman multiple medalist in Paralympic shooting. Shooter Manish Narwal won another gold medal in 50 m pistol SH1 event and Singhraj Adhana also won two shooting medals, a silver and a bronze. Harvinder Singh became the first Indian to win a medal in Paralympic archery after he won a bronze medal in the men's recurve event. In badminton, Indian shuttlers won four medals including two gold medals by Pramod Bhagat and Krishna Nagar, a silver medal by Suhas Yathiraj and a bronze medal by Manoj Sarkar.

In athletics, India won eight medals including one gold, five silver and two bronze medals. Sumit Antil won a gold medal in Javelin throw F64 with a new world record. Mariyappan Thangavelu (high jump T63) and Devendra Jhajharia (Javelin throw F46) won silver medals to go along with the gold medals they won in the 2016 Games. This was Jhajharia third medal, which is the most by an Indian Para athlete in the Paralympic Games along with Joginder Singh Bedi. Nishad Kumar and Praveen Kumar won silver medals in high jump T47 and high jump T64 respectively. Sharad Kumar (high jump T63) and Sundar Singh Gurjar (Javelin throw F46) won bronze medals. Indian discus thrower Vinod Kumar who won a bronze in the F52 category discus throw event, was later disqualified after being found ineligible in the disability classification assessment.

|style="text-align:left;width:60%;vertical-align:top"| Medal Name Sport Event Date Gold Shooting Women's R2 10 metre air rifle standing SH1 Gold Athletics Men's javelin throw F64 Gold Shooting Mixed P4 50 metre pistol SH1 Gold Badminton Men's singles SL3 Gold Men's singles SH6 Silver Table tennis Women's individual class 4 Silver Athletics Men's high jump T47 Silver Men's discus throw F56 Silver Men's javelin throw F46 Silver Men's high jump T63 Silver Men's high jump T64 Silver Shooting Mixed P4 50 metre pistol SH1 Silver Badminton Men's singles SL4 Bronze Athletics Men's javelin throw F46 Bronze Shooting Men's P1 10 metre air pistol SH1 Bronze Athletics Men's high jump T63 Bronze Shooting Women's R8 50 metre Rifle 3 positions SH1 Bronze Archery Men's individual recurve open Bronze Badminton Men's singles SL3

Summary

+Medals by sportSportGoldSilverBronzeTotal Shooting2125 Badminton2114 Athletics1528 Table tennis0101 Archery0011Total58619

Medals by dayDayDateGoldSilverBronzeTotal 529 August 0 2 02 630 August 2 2 15 731 August 0 1 23 103 September 0 1 23 114 September 2 1 14 125 September 1 1 02Total58619

+Medals by genderGenderGoldSilverBronzeTotalMale47516Female1113Total58619

Competitors The Indian contingent for the games consisted of 54 athletes competing across nine sports. SportMenWomenTotalArchery415Athletics20424Badminton527Paracanoeing011Powerlifting112Shooting8210Swimming202Table Tennis022Taekwondo011Total401454

Archery

India archers achieved four quota places in the 2019 World Para Archery Championships. Jyoti Baliyan got the bipartite commission invitation to participate in the tournament.

Recurve

|align=left|Harvinder Singh |align=left rowspan="2"|Men's individual |600 |21 |rowspan=2 |W 6–5 |W 6–5 |W 6–2 |L 4–6 |W 6–5

|align=left|Vivek Chikara |609 |10 |W 6–2 |L 3–7 |colspan="3" |9

Compound

|align=left|Rakesh Kumar |align=left rowspan="2"|Men's individual |699 |3 |rowspan="2" |W 144–131 |W 140–137 |L 143–145 |colspan="2" |5 |- |align=left|Shyam Sundar Swami |682 |21 |L 139–142 |rowspan="2" colspan="4" |17 |- |Jyoti Baliyan |align=left| Women's individual |671 |15 | | L 137–141 |17 |- |Jyoti BaliyanRakesh Kumar |align=left| Mixed team |1370 |6 |colspan="2" |W 147–141 | L 151–153 |colspan="2" |5

Athletics

The following Indian athletes achieved the quota places by through eligible events and via the Athletics World Rankings. The Paralympic Committee of India announced the final list of the athletes after the selection trials held in New Delhi.

Track AthleteEventHeatFinalResultRankResultRankSimran SharmaWomen's 100m T1312.69 5colspan="2"

Field AthleteEventResultRankAmit Kumar SarohaMen's club throw F5127.77 5Dharambir Nain25.59 8Vinod KumarMen's discus throw F52Yogesh KathuniyaMen's discus throw F5644.38 Nishad KumarMen's high jump T472.06 Ram Pal1.945Mariyappan ThangaveluMen's high jump T631.86 Sharad Kumar1.83 Varun Singh Bhati1.77 7Praveen KumarMen's high jump T64 2.07 Navdeep SinghMen's javelin throw F4140.804Sundar Singh GurjarMen's javelin throw F4664.01 Ajeet Singh56.158Devendra Jhajharia64.35 Ranjeet BhatiMen's javelin throw F57Sandeep ChaudharyMen's javelin throw F6462.20 4Sumit Antil68.55 Arvind MalikMen's shot put F3513.487Soman RanaMen's shot put F5713.814Tek ChandMen's shot put F559.048Kashish LakraWomen's club throw F5112.66 6Ekta Bhyan8.38 8Bhagyashree JadhavWomen's shot put F347.00 7

Badminton

Badminton made its debut at the Paralympic Games and seven Indian shuttlers qualified for the games based on qualification rankings or bipartite invitation.

Men Athlete Event Group Stage Semifinal Final / OppositionScore OppositionScore OppositionScore Rank OppositionScore OppositionScore Rank Pramod Bhagat Singles SL3 W (21–10, 21–23, 21–9) W (21–12, 21–9) rowspan=2 1 Q W (21–11, 21–16) W (21–14, 21–17) Manoj Sarkar L (10–21, 23–21, 9–21) W (21–16, 21–9) 2 Q L (8–21, 10–21) W (22–20, 21–13) Tarun Dhillon Singles SL4 W (21–7, 21–13) W (21–18, 15–21, 21–17) L (19–21, 9–21) 2 Q L (16–21, 21–16, 18–21) L (17–21, 11–21) 4 Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj W (21–9, 21–3) W (21–6, 21–12) L (15–21, 17–21) 2 Q W (21–9, 21–15) L (21–15, 17–21, 15–21) Krishna Nagar Singles SH6 W (22–20, 21–10) W (21–17, 21–14) 1 Q W (21–10, 21–11) W (21–17, 16–21, 21–17)

Women Athlete Event Group Stage Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / OppositionScore OppositionScore Rank OppositionScore OppositionScore OppositionScore Rank Palak Kohli Singles SU5 L (4–21, 7–21) W (21–12, 21–18) 2 Q L (11–21, 15–21) rowspan="3" colspan="3" Parul Parmar Singles SL4 L (8–21, 2–21) L (21–23, 21–19, 15–21) 3 rowspan="2" Parul ParmarPalak Kohli Doubles SL3–SU5 L (7–21, 5–21) L (12–21, 20–22) 3

Mixed Athlete Event Group Stage Semifinal Final / OppositionScore OppositionScore Rank OppositionScore OppositionScore Rank Pramod BhagatPalak Kohli Doubles SL3–SU5 L (9–21, 21–15, 19–21) W (21–15, 21–19) 2 Q   L (3–21, 15–21) L (21–23, 19–21) 4

Paracanoeing

Prachi Yadav was the only Indian para canoe athlete at the Tokyo Paralympics and she achieved the quota after finishing 8th in International Canoe World Championship 2019.

AthleteEventHeatSemifinalsFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankPrachi YadavVL21:11.0984 Q1:07.3973 Q1:07.3298

Powerlifting

Sakina Khatun and Jaideep Deswal received the bipartite invitation to participate in the games. Sakina became the first-ever female powerlifter from the country to participate in the games. While this was Jaideep's second Paralympics.

AthleteEventScoreRankJaideep DeswalMen's 65 kg ——Sakina KhatunWomen's 50 kg935

Shooting

Indian shooters achieved quota places for through various qualifying events. Manish Narwal and Deepender Singh became the first shooters to qualify after winning the gold and silver medal respectively at the 2018 World Shooting Para Sport World Cup at Châteauroux and Singhraj Adhana joined them by securing a berth in the mixed pistol event. Avani Lekhara became the first female shooter to secure a Paralympic berth. Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar and Sidhartha Babu secured quotas in the 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships at Sydney. Other shooters secured the remaining quota places at the 2021 Para Sport World Cup held in Lima. Paralympic Committee of India announced the 10-member Indian Team for the Games on 8 July 2021.

Men AthleteEventQualificationFinalPointsRankPointsRankManish NarwalP1 10 m air pistol SH15751 Q135.87Deepender Singh56010colspan="2"Singhraj Adhana5696 Q216.8Swaroop Mahavir UnhalkarR1 10 m air rifle standing SH1615.27 Q203.94Deepak Saini592.620rowspan="2" colspan="2"R7 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1111418

Women AthleteEventQualificationFinalPointsRankPointsRankRubina FrancisP2 10 m air pistol SH15607 Q128.57Avani LekharaR2 10 m air rifle SH1621.77 Q249.6 R8 50 m rifle 3 positions SH111762 Q 445.9

Mixed AthleteEventQualificationFinalPointsRankPointsRankRahul JakharP3 25 m pistol SH15762 Q125Akash55120colspan="2"Manish NarwalP4 50 m pistol SH15337 Q218.2 Singhraj Adhana5364 Q216.7Akash50727rowspan="7" colspan="2"Deepak SainiR3 10 m air rifle prone SH1624.943Sidhartha Babu625.540Avani Lekhara629.727Avani LekharaR6 50 m rifle prone SH161228Deepak Saini602.246Sidhartha Babu617.29

Swimming

Suyash Jadhav achieved the Minimum qualifying Standard to qualify for the Games. Later, Niranjan Mukundan received bi-partite invitation to participate in the 50 m Butterfly S7 event.

AthleteEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankNiranjan MukundanMen's 50m butterfly S733.826rowspan="2" colspan="2" Suyash Jadhav32.365Men's 100 m breaststroke SB7colspan=2 Men's 200m individual medley SM7 colspan="2" DNS - Did not start; DSQ- Disqualified

Table tennis

India entered two athletes into the table tennis competition at the games. Bhavina Patel and Sonal Patel qualified via the overall Rankings.

AthleteEventGroup StageRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultRankOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankSonal PatelWomen's individual C3L 2–3L 1–33colspan="5" Bhavina PatelWomen's individual C4L 0–3W 3–12 QW 3–0W 3–0W 3–2L 0–3Sonal PatelBhavina PatelWomen's team C4-5colspan="4" L 0–2colspan="3"

Taekwondo

Aruna Tanwar received the bipartite commission invitation for the Games. She withdrew during the competition due to injury.

Women