*The 2016 Summer Paralympics (Brazilian Portuguese: Jogos Paralímpicos de Verão de 2016), the fifteenth Summer Paralympic Games, are an upcoming major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016, making them the first Summer Paralympics to be held during the host city's wintertime. This will mark the first time a Latin American and South American city hosts the event, the second Southern Hemisphere city and nation, the first one being the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, and also the first time aLusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country hosts the event.[6] These Games will see the introduction of two new sports to the Paralympic program: canoeing and the paratriathlon.
The lead-up to these Paralympics have been met with major financial issues, which were primarily attributed to tepid sponsor interest and ticket sales. These shortcomings have resulted in cuts to volunteer staffing and transport, the re-location of events and the partial deconstruction of the Deodoro Olympic Park. However, none of these cuts have affected the Games themselves.*----WIKI
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*Rio Paralympics 2016: Complete list of Indian athletes in upcoming games
India's athletes will take part in events such as club throw, javelin throw, high jump and shooting.Here is the list of 19 athletes who will represent the nation in Rio:Amit Kumar Saroha - Club throw
Devendra Jhajaria - Javelin throw
Mariyappan Thangavelu - High jump
Sundar Singh Gurjar - Javelin throw
Dharambir - Club throw
Deepa Malik - Shot put
Karamjyoti Dalal - Discus throw
Ankur Dhama - 1500m
Basha Farman - Powerlifting
Rinku - Javelin Throw
Narendra Ranbir - Javelin Throw
Suyash Narayan Jadhav - Swimming
Virender Dhankar - Shotput, Javelin throw
Rampal Chahar - High jump
Sandeep - Javelin throw
Sharad Kumar - High jump
Pooja Rani - Archery
Naresh Kumar Sharma - Shooting
Varun Singh Bhati - High Jump
The Paralympic Games are an attempt to provide an equal platform for athletes with disabilities to showcase their skills at a stage that lets them represent their countries. In order to differentiate between the various categories of legitimate disabilities, there are 10 categories, such as impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment.
India's chances of winning medals are pretty high considering that the 2004 Athens gold medallist Devendra Jhajaria will be in action. Other than Jhajaria, Amit Kumar Saroha will also be pivotal in India's medal hunt at the Paralympics. Speaking of prospects, high jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu's record of 1.78m is slightly lesser than Egyptian record holder Hammad Hassan's 1.81.
Therefore there is a definite chance that India can improve upon its solitary silver medal in the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and maybe even better the single gold medal that was won in Athens.
Other than Indian athletes, the favorites overall are two visually impaired athletes — Jason Smyth of Ireland and Omara Durand of Cuba — who are likely to be the fastest man and woman over 100 meters.
American Tatyana McFadden is hoping to become the first track and field athlete to win seven golds at one Paralympic Games. 74-year-old Libby Kosmala of Australia is competing in her 12th Paralympics; Jonas Jacobsson, 51, of Sweden in his 10th — both in shooting. Siamand Rahman of Iran will try to become the first Paralympian to lift 300 kilos in powerlifting. Zahra Nemati, who was the flagbearer for Iran in the Rio Olympics, is the first Iranian woman to win gold in either the Olympics or Paralympics — she won gold in archery in London's Paralympics.*
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