India finished 24th with a total of 19 medals in the 16th Summer Paralympic Games, which concluded in Tokyo today. The 19 medals featured five gold, eight silver and six bronze. This was best tally for India at a single edition of the Para Games.
India had won four medals at Rio 2016 and four at the 1984 Paralympics. The Tokyo haul is a dramatic and historic rise for the country that had won a total of 12 medals in 11 previous editions of the Games, from 1968 till 2016.
China topped the tally with a total of 207 medals, which included 96 gold, 60 silver and 51 bronze. Great Britain occupied the second position with 124 medals (41 gold, 38 silver, 45 bronze), while the United States of America took the third place with 104 (37 gold, 36 silver, 31 bronze) medals.