The Olympics are over, but don't worry, the Paralympics are just around the corner. India is coming home with a record 19 medals (5 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze) from the Tokyo Olympics, and expectations are high as the country will be sending its largest ever contingent to the Paralympics. Fans are excited to see an even bigger medal tally at Paris 2024, but keeping track of what each of the 84 athletes is doing can be a bit overwhelming. But don't worry, ESPN India has your back.
Here are the key dates (and times) for all the Indian athletes and the events they will be taking part in, so you can plan your schedule based on this (and of course, you can do so via ESPN India's coverage).
Note 1 – All times are IST.
Note 2 – For certain events such as badminton, the start time of the session is stated.. The daily live schedule will be updated once the schedules of participating Indian players are finalized..
NOTE 3 – Events marked after 12:00 AM will occur later that same night, i.e. an event marked at 12:22 AM on August 27th will occur later that night on August 27th..
Wednesday, August 28
The opening ceremony will take place at 11:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 29
India's medal chances
Taekwondo: Aruna, K44 – 47kg (W). Rounds start at 1:30pm with the final at 12:04am.
Cycling: Jyoti Ghaderia in the C-1 3000m Pursuit (W). Qualifying at 4:25pm, medal matches at 7:54pm and 8:11pm.
others:
Badminton: Group stage at 12pm and 7.30pm.
Archery: Ranking rounds – Sarita and Sheetal Devi in Compound Open (W) at 4:30 pm, Harvinder Singh in Recurve Open (M) at 4:30 pm, Rakesh Kumar and Shyam Swami in Compound Open (M) at 8:30 pm, Pooja in Recurve Open (M) at 8:30 pm.
Friday, August 30
India's medal chances
Shooting: Avani Lekara and Mona Agarwal in R2 10m Rifle Standing (W). Qualifying at 12:30pm and final at 3:15pm.
Shooting: Manish Narwal and Rudranshu Khandelwal will compete in the P1 – 10m Pistol SH1 (Men's) event. The preliminary round will begin at 2:45 pm and the final at 5:30 pm.
Shooting: Sriharsha Ramakrishna in the R4 Mixed 10m Air Rifle Standing. Qualifying at 5pm and the final at 7.45pm.
Athletics: Sakshi Kasana and Karam Jyoti will compete in the Discus F55 Final (W) at 1:30 pm.
Athletics: Manu competes in the Shot Put F37 Final (Men's), 12:20 a.m.
Cycling: Arshad Sheikh in the C-2 3000m pursuit (men's). Qualifying at 4:24 pm, medal matches at 7:11 pm and 7:19 pm.
others
Badminton: The group stage and quarterfinals will be played at 12pm and 7.30pm.
Archery: Early knockout rounds – Sarita and Sheetal Devi in Compound Open (W) at 12:30 pm and Rakesh Kumar and Shyam Swami in Compound Open (M) at 7 pm.
Rowing: Anita and Narayana K secured PR3 in the mixed doubles sculls qualifying round.
Saturday, August 31
India's medal chances
Shooting: Mahavir Unhalkar, 10m rifle standing SH1 (men's). Qualifying at 1pm, final at 3:45pm. Cycling: Jyoti Gaderia, C1-3 1000m time trial (women's). Qualifying at 1:30pm, final at 5:05pm.
Cycling: Arshad Sheikh C1-3 1000m Time Trial (Men's). Qualifying at 1:49pm, Final at 5:32pm.
Table Tennis: Bhavinaben Patel and Sonalben Patel in women's doubles WD10. The semi-final will be at 1.30pm and the final at 10.45pm.
Shooting: Rubina Francis, P2 10m Pistol SH1 (W). Qualifying at 3:30pm, final at 6:15pm.
Archery: Sheetal Devi, Sarita (winners) in the Compound Open. The quarter-finals to semi-finals will be at 7 pm and 10:24 pm, while the medal matches will be at 11:13 pm and 11:30 pm.
Athletics: Parveen Kumar competes in the javelin F57 final (men's), 10:30 p.m.
others
Badminton: The group stage and quarterfinals will be played at 12pm and 7.30pm.
Badminton: Nitesh Kumar, Sivarajan Solaimalai, Suhas Yathiraj, Palak Kohli, Thulasimathi Murugesan, Nithya Sule Sivan, SL3-SU6 semi-final, 7.30pm.
Rowing: Anita and Narayana K, 2:40 pm.
Sunday, September 1st
India's medal chances
Shooting: Avani Lekhara and Sidhartha Babu in R3 – Mixed 10m Rifle Prone SH1. Qualifying at 1pm, final at 4.30pm.
Shooting: R5 – Sriharsha Ramakrishna in Mixed 10m Rifle Prone SH2. Qualifying at 3pm, final at 6:30pm.
Athletics: Ravi Rangoli competed in the Shot Put F40 Final (Men's) at 3:09 pm.
Archery: Rakesh Kumar and Shyam Swami will compete in the Compound Open (Men's). The quarter-finals and semi-finals will be at 7 pm and 10.24 pm, while the medal matches will be at 11.13 pm and 11.30 pm.
Athletics: Nishad Kumar and Ram Pal competed in the high jump F47 final (men) at 10:58 pm.
Athletics: Pretty Pal won the 200m T35 final (W) at 11:08pm.
others
Badminton: Manoj Sarkar, Nitesh Kumar (SL3 S.F. (M)), Manasi Joshi, Mandeep Kaur (SL3 S.F. (W)), Suhas Yathiraj, Sukant Kadam, Tarun (SL4 S.F. (M)), Palak Kohli (SL4 S.F. (W)), Krishnanagar, Sivarajan Solaimalai in SH6 S.F. (W), Nitya Sule Sivan in SH6 S.F. (W), Thulasimathi Murugesan, Manisha Ramadas in SU5 S.F. (W). The session will begin at 8:10 PM.
Athletics: Rakshita Raju won the 1500m T11 first round (winner).
Table Tennis: Early Knockout Singles (W).
Monday, September 2
India's medal chances
Badminton: Manoj Sarkar, Nitesh Kumar in SL3 Final (M), Manasi Joshi, Mandeep Kaul in SL3 Final (W), Suhas Yathiraj, Sukant Kadam in SL4 Final (M), Tarun in SL4 Final (M), Palak Kohli, Krishna in SL4 Final (W), Nagal, Sivarajan Solaimalai in SH6 Final (M), Nithya Sure Sivan in SH6 Final (W), Thulasimathi Murugesan, Manisha Ramadas in SU5 Final (W). There will be two sessions at 12 pm and 8 pm.
Shooting: Amir Ahmad Bhat and Nihal Singh in P3 – Mixed 25m Pistol. Precision Qualifier at 12:30pm, Rapid Qualifier at 4:30pm, Final at 8:15pm.
Athletics: Discus Final F56 (Men's) Final, Yogesh Katuniya competed at 1:35 p.m.
Athletics: Rakshita Raju 1500m – T11 Final (W), 1.40pm.
Archery: Rakesh Kumar, Sheetal Devi/Shyam Swami and Sarita in Compound Open (Mixed Team). Quarterfinals to semifinals at 7 pm and medal matches at 10.35 pm and 10.55 pm.
Athletics: Sumit Antil, Sandeep and Sandip Sagar will compete in the Javelin F64 final (men's), 10:30 pm.
Athletics: Kanchan Lakhani competed in the discus final F53(W) at 10:34 p.m.
others
Table Tennis: Early Knockout Singles (W).
Athletics: Deepti Jeevangi, 400m T20 – First Round (W), 11:50 pm.
Tuesday, September 3
India's medal chances
Archery: Pooja (W) in the Individual Recurve Open. Knockout matches at 12:30 pm, quarter-finals and semi-finals at 8:30 pm, medal matches at 10:27 pm and 10:44 pm.
Shooting: R8 – 50m Rifle 3P SH1(W) Avani Lekara, Mona Agarwal. Qualifying at 1pm, final at 7.30pm.
Athletics: 2:26 pm, Baghyashri Jadhav in the Shot Put F34 Final (Winner).
Athletics: Deepti Jeevanji wins the 400m T20 Final (W) at 10:38 pm.
Athletics: Mariyappan Thangavelu, Shailesh Kumar and Sharad Kumar compete in the High Jump – T63 Final (Men), 11:40 pm.
Athletics: Ajeet Singh, Link and Sunder Singh Gurjar in the javelin F46(M) final at 12:10am.
others
Table Tennis: Early Knockout Singles (W).
Wednesday, September 4
India's medal chances
Cycling: Arshad Shaikh in C2 Individual Time Trial (M) and Jyoti Gaderia in C1-3 Individual Time Trial (W), 11:30am.
Archery: Harvinder Singh in the Individual Recurve Open (Men's). Knockout matches will be held at 12:30 pm, quarter-finals and semi-finals at 9 pm and medal matches at 10:54 pm and 11:14 pm.
Shooting: P4 – Nihal Singh, Rudransh Khandelwal in Mixed 50m Pistol SH1. Qualifying at 1pm, final at 3.45pm.
Athletics: Sachin Sarjerao Kirali, Mohammed Yaser and Rohit Kumar compete in the Shot Put – F46 Final (Men's), 1:35 pm.
Athletics: Amisha Rawat, Shot Put – F46 Final (Winner), 3:16 pm.
Powerlifting: Parmjeet Kumar will compete in the under-49 kg final (men's) at 3:30 p.m.
Powerlifting: Sakina Khatun competes in the under-45 kg final (W), 8:30 p.m.
Athletics: Dharambir, Pranav Soma and Amit Kumar compete in the club throw F51 final (boys), 10.50 pm.
others
Athletics: Simran 100m T12 first round (win), 11pm. Table Tennis: Quarter-final singles (win).
Thursday, September 5
India's medal chances
Shooting: Mona Agarwal, Siddhartha Babu, R6 Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1. Qualifying at 1pm, Final at 3.15pm.
Archery: Harvinder Singh and Pooja in Recurve Open (Mixed Team), with early knockouts at 1.30pm, quarter-finals and semi-finals at 6.30pm and 7.50pm, and medal matches at 8.45pm.
Judo: 48kg J2 (W) Kokila. Preliminary rounds at 1:30pm, finals at 7:30pm.
Judo: 60kg J1 (Men's) Kapil Parmar. Preliminaries start at 1:30pm, finals at 7:30pm.
Powerlifting: Ashok will compete in the under-65 kg final (boys) at 7:30 p.m.
Athletics: Arvind competes in the men's shot put F35 final at 11:49 p.m.
others N/A
Friday, September 6
India's medal chances
Table Tennis: Sonalben Patel wins WS3 Singles (W). The semi-finals are at 1:30 pm and the finals at 11:45 pm.
Athletics: Dipesh Kumar, Javelin – F54 Final (Men) 2:08 pm.
Athletics: Dilip Gavitt, 400m – T47, 1st round (men), 2:47pm.
Athletics: Pravin Kumar competed in the High Jump -T64 Final (Men), 3:18 pm.
Powerlifting: Kastri Rajamani in the 67kg final (W) at 8:30 p.m.
Athletics: Soman Rana and Hokat Sema will compete in the Shot Put – F57 Final (Men) at 10:30pm.
Athletics: Javelin – F46 Final (Winner), 10:48 pm, Bhavanaben Chaudhary.
others
Canoeing: Yash Kumar Kayak Single 200m – KL1 Heat (Men) 1:30 pm, Prachi Yadav (Vaa) Single 200m – VL2 Heat (Women) 1:50 pm, Pooja Ojha Kayak Single 200m – KL1 Heat (Women) 2:55 pm.
Athletics: Simran competed in the 200m T12 first round and semi-final (win) at 1.39pm.
Saturday, September 7
India's medal chances
Cycling: Jyoti Ghaderia, C1-3 Road Race (W), 1pm. Cycling: Arshad Sheikh, C1-3 Road Race (M), 1pm.
Swimming: Suyash Jadhav in the 50m butterfly S-7 (men's). The preliminary round will be held at 1 pm and the final at 10 pm.
Table Tennis: Babinaben Patel (winner) in WS4 singles. The semi-finals are at 1:30 pm and the finals at 9:30 pm.
Canoeing: Yash Kumar, Kayak Single 200m – KL 1 (M). Semi-final at 1:30 pm, Final at 2:50 pm. Canoeing: Prachi Yadav, Vaas Single 200m – VL2 (W). Semi-final at 1:58 pm, Final at 3:22 pm.
Athletics: Navdeep, Javelin – F41 Final (Men) 10:30 pm. Athletics: Simran, 200m T12 Final (Women) 11:03 pm.
Athletics: Dilip Gavitt, 400m T47 Final (M) 12:29am.
others N/A
Sunday, September 8
India's medal chances
Canoeing: Pooja Ojha, Kayak Single 200m – KL1 (W). Semi-final at 1pm, final at 2:55pm.
others N/A
Monday, September 9
The closing ceremony will be at 12:30 a.m.