On Saturday , Indian Para athletes created history with an unprecedented 111 medals as they ended their Hangzhou Asian Para Games campaign. India ended at fifth place in the medals tally.
This was a remarkable achievement by the country with 29 gold, 31 silver and 51 bronze , below China (521 medals: 214 gold, 167 silver, 140 bronze), Iran (44 gold, 46 silver, 41 bronze), Japan (42, 49, 59) and Korea (30, 33, 40).
On the concluding day on Saturday, India added 12 medals, including four gold. Seven medals came from chess, four from athletics and one from rowing.
India had sent 313 athletes at the Hangzhou Para Asian Games, the biggest in any edition with 51 Tokyo Paralympians in the team.
India competed in 17 out of 22 sports, with the country fielding athletes for the first time in rowing, canoeing, lawn bowl, taekwondo and blind football.