India dominates 2025 Asia Para Badminton Championship with 27 medals
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The Indian Para shuttlers dominated the Asia Para Badminton Championship 2025, winning 27 medals. This was their best performance in the Asian Championship, bettering their record of 13 medals in the 2016 edition held in Beijing, China.
The 2025 Asia Para Badminton Championship, organised by the Badminton World Federation (BWF), was held in Thailand from 17 to 22 June 2025.
In Para Badminton, players are classified into six sport classes depending on their disability. The six sporting classes are Wheel Chair (WH)1, Wheel Chair (WH) 2, Standing Lower (SL) 3, Standing Lower (SL) 4, Standing Upper (SU) 5 and Standing Upper (SU) 6.
Medal Winners of India
The Indian shuttlers won 27 medals - four gold, 10 silver and 13 bronze medals.
Nitesh Kumar won three gold medals in the Men’s Singles SL3, the Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 (with M. Thulasimathi) and Men’s Doubles SL3-SL4 (with Sukant Kadam).
Gold Medalists
- Nitesh Kumar- Men's Singles, SL3
- Manisha Ramadas- Women’s Singles, SU5
- Nitesh Kumar & Tulsi Mati Murugesan- Mixed Doubles, SL3-SU5
- Nitesh Kumar & Sukant Kadam- Men’s Doubles, SL3-SL4
Silver Medalists
- Mandeep Kaur- Women Singles, SL3
- Palak Kohali- Women's Singles, SL4
- Nithya Sre Sivan- Women Singles,-SH6
- Suryakant Yadav- Men’s Singles, SL4
- Nithya Sre & Rachna Patel- Women's doubles, SH6
- Manshi Joshi & Tulsi Mathi Murugesan- Women's doubles, SL3-SU5
- Ruthick Raghupati & Manshi Joshi- Mixed Doubles, SL3-SU5
- Krishna Nagar & Nithya, Mixed Doubles, SH6
- Jagdish Dilli & Naveen Shivakumar- Mixed Doubles, SL3-SL4
- Ruthick Raghupati & Hardik Makkar- Men’s Doubles, SU5
Bronze Medalists
- Naveen Shivakumar – Men’s Singles, SL4
- Umesh Vikaram Kumar –Men’s Singles, SL3
- Krishna Nagar – Men’s Singles, SH-6
- Alphia James Women’s Singles, WH2
- Manshi Joshi- Women’s Singles, SL3
- Tulsi Mathi Murugesan – Women's Singles SU5
- Abhijeet Sakhuja & Arbaz Ansari- Men’s Doubles, SL3 -SL4
- Chirag Baretha & Rajkumar- Men’s Doubles, SU5
- Prem ale & Abu Hubaida,- Men’s, Doubles, WH1-WH2
- Krishna Nagar & D Pandurangan- Men’s Doubles, SH6
- Alphia James & Pallavi Kaluvehalli M- Women’s Doubles, WH1-WH2
- Chirag Baretha & Mandeep Kaur- Mixed Doubles, SL3-SU5
- Manisha & Mandeep -Women Doubles, SL3-SU5
