Bollywood celebrities congratulate athletes who have bagged medals at the Tokyo Paralympic Games

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Ever since we celebrated National Sports Day on August 29, it has been raining medals at Tokyo Paralympic Games. As Monday marked a historic moment for India, with our athletes winning five medals, including two golds, two silvers and a bronze, tweets and congratulatory messages starting pouring in from celebs.

Close watch

A sports enthusiast, actor Abhishek Bachchan was the first to tweet in support of Singhraj Adana, who won Bronze on Tuesday morning. “Singhraj Adana makes a mark and how! Congratulations on the #Bronze in Air Pistol at #TokyoParalympics,” he posted. In a separate tweet on Nishad Kumar’s silver win, he wrote, “High Jump is my favourite track & field event and as someone who participated in it in school, I wished someone would win a medal for India. Thank you, @nishad_hj, for making us proud at #TokyoParalympics with a silver.”

Raining medals

Actress Taapsee Pannu tweeted, “Javelin again! Gold again! And with that the medal tally for India in Paralympics goes to 8! Congratulations Sumit Antil!” What champions!!! I think with the way we are going, javelin can soon compete to become our national sport! Davendra Jhajharia and Sundar Singh Gurjar.”

Haryanvi touch

Actor Randeep Hooda couldn’t hold back his emotions and tweeted in his mother tongue, “Lath Gaad Ke, Paad Ke, Fer Gaad Diya”, which translates to how Javelin thrower Sumit Antil had earlier made a world record, which he himself uprooted and set a new one. He went on to praise Devendra Jhajaria too, with a tweet, “Cha Gayo Chore!! (What a boy) @DevJhajharia Legend !! Three #Paralympics #JavelinThrow medals for #DevendraJhajharia .. #ParaAthletics #Tokyoparalympics2020”.

Not to forget Avani Lekhara, whom Randeep calls the golden girl as he sent a congratulatory message, “Extremely happy that

a forester #AvaniLekhara has brought gold to our country. She creates history to be the first to bring Gold in the #ShootingParasport . Cheers to you golden girl.”

Words of praise for the champions…

“Got off a plane and good news was awaiting me… Heartiest Congratulations Avani Lekhara for Winning #Gold. You’ve made history & made the Nation proud #TokyoParalympics ” — Ajay Devgn

“Congratulations #AvaniLekhara for hitting the bulls eye and creating history by becoming the first Indian woman to win a #Paralympics gold medal. — Akshay Kumar

“This is incredible! Congratulations to all the athletes on the amazing wins!” — Anil Kapoor

“Gold! A Paralympic record and a historic win. Congratulations! @AvaniLekhara.” — Tahir Raj Bhasin

“It’s raining medals for India today at the #TokyoParalympics. Congratulations Devendra and Sundar Singh for winning the silver and bronze medals in men’s #Javelin throw F46. India is proud of you.” — Gautam Rode