Preethi Pal won her second medal in a Paralympic as she clinched a bronze in the women’s T35 200m competition a the Paris Games on Sunday.
She becomes the first-ever Indian woman track and field athlete to win two medals at the Paralympics or Olympics.
On August 30, Preethi Pal, a farmer’s daughter from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, won India’s first athletics medal as she clinched a bronze in the women’s T35 100m competition.
On Friday, she had clinched India’s first athletics medal in a Paralympics track event, winning a bronze in the women’s T35 100m competition with a personal best time of 14.21 seconds.
T35 classification is meant for athletes who have coordination impairments such as hypertonia, ataxia and athetosis.