Earlier, Tokyo 2020 Paralympic gold medallist Pramod Bhagat, who was incredible winning triple gold at the Spanish Para-Badminton International II 2022 in Vitoria last week, had to settle with two silver (MS SL3, MD SL3-SL4) and a bronze medal (XD SL3-SU5)."Last week was amazing; three gold medals in three events. I hope to get more triple gold medals in the upcoming events," said Bhagat adding that he played some great matches against England's Daniel Bethell and Japan's Daisuke Fujihara this week, "The work towards my goal continues."Meanwhile, Sukant Kadam, who along with Bhagat have been training in Europe for the last few weeks, settled for the bronze in men's singles SL4 event."It was a fantastic two weeks; we are returning with a lot of positives and learning experiences. This is also after a very long time we are playing back-to-back weeks, so the focus is a little more on recovery and how we can utilize our strength. The competition was also very strong as everyone came here after good preparation, with new targets and new dreams," Kadam told the Paralympic Committee of India from Madrid. "The focus is on world circuits. This year, we have a beautiful calendar and I am very excited about the next event in Brazil," said the World No. 2 Kadam, who was one game up against France's eventual winner and Paralympic champion Lucas Mazur and 18-15 in the second before the momentum changed in the semi-finals.Among other silver medallists are Tarun Dhillon (MS SL4), Krishna Nagar (MS SH6) and Mandeep Kaur (WS SL3). While the bronze medallists are Manoj Sarkar and Nitesh Kumar (both MS SL3), Nilesh Gaikwad (MS SL4), Parul Parmar (WS SL3), Prem Ale & Abu Hubaida (MD WH1-WH2), Nitesh Kumar & Tarun Dhillon (MD SU5), Deep Ranjan & Arwaz Ansari (SL3-SL4), Palak Kohli & Parul Parmar (SL3-SU5).Last week, the Indian shuttlers were phenomenal winning 34 medals including 11 gold medals at the Level 2 Spanish Para-Badminton International at Vitoria.
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