Paris Paralympics 2024: Suyash Jadhav secures Quota in Men's 50 m Butterfly S7 category

Indian para swimmer Suyash Jadhav on Wednesday secured the 2024 Paris Paralympics quota in the Men’s 50m Butterfly S7 category with his brilliant performance at the previous Asian Para Games.
His magnificent time of 32.22 seconds at the Asian Para Games helped the para swimmer confirm his spot in the mega event in Paris.

Aiming for a gold medal, Jadhav will be a part of this world-level mega event for the third time. Naturally, it will be a golden opportunity for Suyash to put all his perseverance, hard work and strong will to fruition.

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Jadhav’s third Paralympics appearance

Suyash Jadhav, who plies his trade in the S7 Category, will be making his third Paralympics appearance.

His journey began at the young age of three years when he took up swimming, encouraged by his father to so do. However, an unfortunate accident occurred that led to Suyash losing both his palms and wrists due to electrocution.

However, his undeterred passion and drive for swimming brought him back to training two years after the accident. There has been no looking back for the para swimmer ever since. He won a silver and a bronze medal at the IWAS World Games in Sochi, Russia, in 2015. Soon after, he became the first Indian Para swimmer to register the ‘A’ qualifying mark and make it to the 2016 Paralympics in Rio.

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Further, Suyash Jadhav bagged three medals, including a gold in the 50m Butterfly, along with a bronze apiece in the 200m Individual Medley and 50m Freestyle events, at the Jakarta Asian Para Games. Come 2021, he qualified once again for the Tokyo Paralympics, becoming one of the only two Indian swimmers at the global event.

With the 2024 Paralympics coming up, Suyash will certainly be keen on bagging a podium finish.

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