Bengaluru, August 15: Fresh from the best ever medal haul in the Summer Olympics at Tokyo 2020, India will hope for another good outing at the Tokyo Paralympics, which is scheduled start later this month.

Like the Tokyo Olympics, the Tokyo Paralympics was also delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 540 Events in 22 sports will be held during the 2020 Paralympics as Badminton and Taekwondo make their debut in the games, replacing sailing and 7-a-side football.

The Paralympic team of India had come up with their best-ever performance in the previous edition in Rio, Brazil, where they had won a total of four medals, including two Golds for javelin thrower Devendra Jhajaria and high jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu.

Now India are sending a 54-member contingent - 40 men and 14 women - to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, which will see the athletes take part in 46 events.

Thangavelu, who has been honoured with the prestigious Khel Ratna Award after his heroics in Rio, was expected to be the flag bearer for India during the opening ceremony, but due to high jumper beign forced into quarantine, javelin thrower Tek Chand is set to carry the flag.

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Here is all you need to know about Tokyo Paralympics:

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When is the Tokyo Paralympics taking place?

The Tokyo Paralympics will start with the opening ceremony on August 24 and end on September 5 with 15 medal events and closing ceremony.

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Where and how to watch Tokyo Paralympics in India?

EUROSPORT, EUROSPORT HD and DD Sports will telecast Tokyo Paralympics in India.

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How to stream the Tokyo Paralympics in India?

Discovery plus app and Prasar Bharati Youtube will stream the Tokyo Paralympics in India.

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Indian athletes schedule with dates and timings in IST for their events at the Tokyo Paralympics

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Archery

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Men's Recurve Individual Open - Harvinder Singh, Vivek Chikara

August 27

Ranking Round - From 10:30 AM

September 3

1/16 Eliminator

Harvinder Singh vs Stefano Travisani (Italy) - 6:30 AM

Vivek Chikara vs Sampath Bandara (Sri Lanka) - 8:45 AM

If qualified,

1/8 Eliminator

Harvinder Singh vs winner of Suresh Selvathamby (Malaysia) vs Bato Tsydendorzhiev (RPC) - 2:15 PM

Vivek Chikara vs winner of David Phillips (Great Britain) vs Guillaume Toucoullet (France) - 3 PM

Quarterfinal

Harvinder Singh vs TBD - 4 PM

Vivek Chikara vs TBD - 4:45 PM

Semifinal -

Harvinder Singh vs TBD - 5 PM

Vivek Chikara vs TBD - 5:15 PM

Bronze Medal Match - 5:36 PM

Gold Medal Match - 5:51 PM

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Men's Compound Individual Open - Rakesh Kumar, Shyam Sundar Swami

August 27

Ranking round - From 10:30 AM

August 28

1/16 Eliminator

Shyam Sundar Swami vs Matt Stutzman (USA) - 6:38 AM

Rakesh Kumar vs winner of Sulaiman (Iraq) vs Ngai Ka Chuen (Hong Kong) - 8:52 AM

August 31

1/8 Eliminator

Rakesh Kumar vs Marian Marecak (Slovakia) - 7:12 AM

Quarterfinal

Rakesh Kumar vs Ai Xinliang (China) - 8:34 AM

If qualified

Semifinal

Rakesh Kumar vs TBD - 9:25 AM

Bronze Medal Match - 9:48 AM

Gold Medal Match - 10:05 AM

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Women's Compound Individual Open - Jyoti Baliyan

August 27

Ranking round - From 5:30 AM

August 29

1/16 Eliminator vs Kerrie-Louise Leonard (Ireland) - 6:55 AM

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Compound Mixed Team Open - Jyoti Baliyan & Rakesh Kumar

August 29

1/8 Eliminators

India vs Thailand - 9 AM

Quarterfinal

India vs Turkey - 2:40 PM

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Athletics

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August 27

Men's Shot Put F55 - Tek Chand - 3:30 PM

August 28

Men's Javelin Throw F57 - Ranjeet Bhati - 3:30 PM

August 29

Men's Discus Throw F52 - Vinod Kumar - 3:54 PM

Men's High Jump T47 - Nishad Kumar, Ram Pal - 3:58 PM

August 30

Men's Discus Throw F56 - Yogesh Kathuniya - 6:05 AM

Men's Javelin Throw F46 - Sundar Singh Gurjar, Ajeet Singh, Devendra Jhajharia - 7:33 AM

Men's Javelin Throw F64 - Sumit Antil, Sandeep Choudhary - 3:30 PM

August 31

Men's High Jump T63 - Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Varun Singh Bhati - 3:55 PM

Women's 100m T13 - Simran Sharma

Heats - Heat 2 - 7:08 AM

Women's Shot Put F34 - Bhagyashri Madavrao Jadhav - 6:56 AM

September 1

Men's Club Throw F51 - Dharambir Nain, Amit Kumar Saroha - 3:55 PM

September 2

Men's Shot Put F35 - Arvind Malik - 4:28 PM

September 3

Men's High Jump T64 - Praveen Kumar - 7:32 AM

Men's Shot Put F57 - Soman Rana - 3:40 PM

Women's Club Throw F51 - Ekta Bhyan, Kashish Lakra - 3:35 PM

September 4

Men's Javelin Throw F41 - Navdeep Singh - 3:40 PM

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Badminton

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September 1 - September 5

Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5

Pramod Bhagat & Palak Kohli - Group B

• vs Lucas Mazur & Faustine Noel (France) - September 1 - 2:30 PM

• vs Siripong Teamarrom & Nipada Saensupa (Thailand) - TBD

Men's Singles SL3

Pramod Bhagat - Group A

• vs Manoj Sarkar (India) - September 1 - 5:50 PM

• vs Oleksandr Chyrkov (Ukraine) - September 2 - 1:10 PM

Manoj Sarkar - Group A

• vs Pramod Bhagat (India) - September 1 - 5:50 PM

• vs Oleksandr Chyrkov (Ukraine)

Women's Singles SU5

Palak Kohli - Group A

• vs Ayako Suzuki (Japan) - September 1 - 5:10 PM

• vs Zehra Baglar (Turkey) - September 2 - 10:10 AM

Men's Singles SL4 -

Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj - Group A

• vs Lucas Mazur (France)

• vs Jan-Niklas Pott (Germany) - September 2 - 6:10 AM

• vs Harry Susanto (Indonesia)

Tarun Dhillon - Group B

• vs Fredy Setiawan (Indonesia)

• vs Kyung Hwan Shin (South Korea)

• vs Siripong Teamarrom (Thailand) - Septmber 2 - 6:50 AM

Men's Singles SS6

Krishna Nagar - Group B

• vs Vitor Goncalves Tavares (Brazil) - TBD

• vs Didin Taresoh (Malaysia) - September 2 - 9:30 AM

Women's Singles SL4

Parul Parmar - Group D

• vs Cheng Hefang (China) - September 2 - 8:50 AM

• vs Katrin Seibert (Germany) - September 2 - 2:30 PM

Women's Doubles SL3-SU5

Parul Parmar & Palak Kohli - Group B

• vs Cheng Hefang & Ma Huihui (China) - September 2 - 5:30 AM

• vs Lenaig Morin Faustine Noel (France) - TBD

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Canoe Sprint

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Women's Kayak Single 200m - VL2 - Prachi Yadav

September 2

Heats - Heat 1 - 6:10 AM

(If qualified 1st, direct to final. The rest to semifinals)

September 3

Semifinals - from 6:14 AM

Final A - 7:32 AM

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Powerlifting

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August 27

Men's 65kg - Jaideep Deswal - 3 PM

Women's 50kg - Sakina Khatun - 9:30 AM

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Shooting

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August 30

Men's R1 - 10 m air rifle standing SH1 - Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar, Deepak Saini

Qualification round - 7:15 AM

Final - 9:45 AM

Women's R2 - 10 m air rifle SH1 - Avani Lekhara

Qualification round - 5 AM

Final - 7:30 AM

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August 31

Men's P1 - 10 m air pistol SH1 - Manish Narwal, Deepender Singh, Singhraj

Qualification round - From 8:30 AM

If qualified, Final - 11 AM

Women's P2 - 10 m air pistol SH1 - Rubina Francis

Qualification round - From 6 AM

Final - 8:30 AM

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September 1

Mixed R3 - 10 m air rifle prone SH1 - Deepak Saini, Sidhartha Babu & Avani Lekhara

Qualification round - From 6 AM

If qualified, Final - 8 AM

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September 2

Mixed P3 - 25 m pistol SH1 - Akash & Rahul Jakhar

Qualification round

Precision - From 5:15 AM

Rapid - From 9 AM

If qualified, Final - 12 PM

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September 3

Men's R7 - 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 - Deepak Saini

Qualification round - From 6 AM

If qualified, Final - 11:45 AM

Women's R8 - 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 - Avani Lekhara

Qualification round - From 6 AM

If qualified, Final - 10 AM

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September 4

Mixed P4 - 50 m pistol SH1 - Akash, Manish Narwal & Singhraj

Qualification round - From 6 AM

If qualified, Final - 8:45 AM

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September 5

Mixed R6 - 50 m rifle prone SH1 - Deepak Saini, Avani Lekhara & Sidhartha Babu

Qualification round - From 6 AM

If qualified, Final - 8 AM

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Swimming

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August 27

200 Individual Medley SM7 - Suyash Jadhav

Heats 2 - 6:38 AM (Did not start)

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September 3

50m Butterfly S7

Heats 1 - Suyash Jadhav - 6:17 AM

Heats 2 - Niranjan Mukundan - 6:20 AM

If Qualified

Finals - 2:28 PM

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Table Tennis

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Women's Singles Class 3 - Sonalben Madhubhai Patel

August 25

Group D - vs Li Qian (China) - 7:30 AM

August 26

Group D - Lee Mi-gyu (South Korea) vs - 5:10 PM

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Women's Singles Class 4 - Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel

August 25

Group A - vs Zhou Ying (China) - 8:50 AM

August 26

Group A - vs Megan Shackleton (Great Britain) - 9:30 AM

August 27

Round of 16 - vs Joyce Oliveira (Brazil) - 7:30 AM

Quarterfinal - vs Borislava Peric-Rankovic (Serbia) - 3:50 PM

August 28

Semifinal - vs Zhang Miao (China) - 6:10 AM

August 29

Final - vs Zhou Ying - 7:15 AM

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Taekwondo

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Women's K44 -49kg - Aruna Tanwar

September 2

Round of 16 - starts at 6:45 AM

If qualified

Quartefinal - starts at 8:45 AM

Repechage 1 - starts at 10:45 AM

Semifinal - starts at 2:30 PM

Repechage 2 - starts at 3:30 PM

Bronze Medal Contests - 4:30 PM and 5 PM

Gold Medal Contest - 5:30 PM