India first participated in the 1968 Summer Paralympics. The nation has appeared in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since 1984. The Paris 2024 Games marked India's 13th appearance at the Paralympics. The country has never participated in the Winter Paralympic Games.
Manasi Joshi is an Indian para-badminton player. She is a former world champion in para badminton women's singles SL3 category. On 8 March 2022, she was ranked world No.1 in women's singles SL3 category.
Parul Dalsukhbhai Parmar is an Indian para-badminton player from Gujarat. She had been ranked world number one in para-badminton women's singles SL3.
Pramod Bhagat is an Indian professional Para-badminton player from Vaishali district, Bihar. He is currently ranked world number 2 in para-badminton men's singles SL3, and won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Men's singles SL3.
Manoj Sarkar is an Indian para-badminton player who lives in Rudrapur City, which is a small city in Uttarakhand, India. He has won 50 international medals in which he have 19 gold medals, 13 silver medals & 18 bronze medals. He is the only Arjun Awardee and Para Olympian Bronze medalist from Uttarakhand. He is awarded by President of India in 2018 by Arjun award. He is supported by the GoSports Foundation through the Para Champions Programme.
Elizabeth Mwesigwa is a Ugandan para-badminton player and she is ranked as the country's number one in the SL3 category. She won a gold medal at Uganda's para-badminton international in 2018. As of February 2020, she is ranked 12 worldwide in the Women's para-badminton SL3 Category by the Badminton World Federation.
Suryo Nugroho is an Indonesian para-badminton player. He won the bronze and silver medal at the men's singles SU5 event at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics respectively. In 2017, he won the BWF Para-Badminton World Championships, when he partnered Singaporean Tay Wei Ming to defeat the World No.1 Malaysian pair of Cheah Liek Hou and Hairol Fozi Saaba to claim gold in the men’s doubles SU5.
Hary Susanto is an Indonesian para-badminton player who has played each of the three variations of the sport at the highest world level. He has won a gold medal at the Summer Paralympics, four medals at the BWF Para-Badminton World Championships, five medals at the Asian Para Games and eleven medals at the ASEAN Para Games.
Badminton events have been contested at every Asian Para Games since 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou.
Daisuke Fujihara is a Japanese paralympic badminton player. He participated at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the badminton competition, winning the bronze medal in the mixed doubles SL3–SU5 event with his teammate, Akiko Sugino.
Tay Wei Ming is a Singaporean para-badminton player. He was Singapore's first ever Para-Badminton world champion. He won the BWF Para-Badminton World Championships in 2017, when he partnered Indonesia's Suryo Nugroho to defeat the World No.1 Malaysian pair of Cheah Liek Hou and Hairol Fozi Saaba to claim gold in the men’s doubles SU5.
Nitesh Kumar is an Indian para-badminton player. He won a gold at the 2024 Paris Paralympics in the men's singles SL3 category. He is a two-time silver and one-time bronze medalist at the World Championships. Kumar has won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the Asian Para Games over the years.
Manisha Ramadass is an Indian para-badminton player. She won the bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. She's a gold, silver, and bronze medalist at the World Championships and a triple bronze medalist at the Asian Para Games.
Qonitah Ikhtiar Syakuroh is an Indonesian para-badminton player in the SL3 classification, she made her international debut at the 2022 ASEAN Para Games held in Surakarta, when she won a gold medal in women's doubles SL3–SU5 with Warining Rahayu. She won the women's singles gold medal and a bronze in women's doubles in the 2023 ASEAN Para Games held in Cambodia.
Zainab Khatoon is an Indian para-power lifter from Meerut. She was part of the Indian para team and won a silver medal at the 2022 Asian Para Games at Hangzhou, China in the women's 61 kg power lifting events. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated her on winning the silver medal and also tweeted it, like he did for all Asiad medal winners.
Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan is an Indian para-badminton player. She won the bronze medal at the 2024 Paralympic Games in the women's singles event. Sivan has also won three bronze medals at the 2022 Asian Para Games in the singles, mixed and women's doubles events.
Rachana Patel is an Indian para-badminton player. She won a bronze medals at the 2022 Asian Para Games. She claimed bronze in the women's doubles in the SH6 category along with Nithya Sre Sivan on 25 October 2023 at Hangzhou, China.
Mandeep Kaur is an Indian para athlete from Uttarakhand. She won two bronze medals at the 2022 Asian Para Games. She claimed bronze in Badminton women's double in the SL3 category along with Manisha Ramadass on 27 October 2023 at Hangzhou, China. Earlier on 25 October 2023, she won a bronze in the individual women's singles SL3 event.
Ritah AsiimwePLY is a Ugandan para-badminton player who is ranked as the country's number one in the women's SU5 category. She is ranked as Africa's number 2 para badminton player and in 2020 became the first Ugandan para badminton player to compete in the Summer Paralympics.
Munna Khalid is an Indian para-badminton athlete.
