Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan praise Sumit Antil for Gold medal

NH Bureau Tuesday, 31 August 2021 10:02:53 AM

Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan praise Sumit Antil for Gold medal (image: Twitter/ParalympicIndia)

New Delhi : India’s Paralympic athlete Sumit Antil has made the nation proud with his gold medal in the ongoing Paralympic 2020. His winning javelin throw F64 final event is now being celebrated in the nation. Many Bollywood celebrities took to their social media accounts to share the joy of winning gold.

A sports enthusiast-actor, Abhishek Bachchan took to Twitter and congratulated the athlete. Sharing an image of Sumit, he wrote, “A force to reckon with! Congratulations, '#SumitAntil,' for winning a '#gold medal' and taking '#TokyoParalympics' by storm with a world record in '#JavelinThrow.' '#Paralympics.'"

Akshay Kumar shared, “Yet another #Gold for India! Heartiest congratulations #SumitAntil on the record-breaking throw What a brilliant performance. We are so proud of you. #Paralympics #Tokyo2020.”

Calling Sumit’s win “glorious”, Preity Zinta cheered virtually, ''A #Gold medal and a world record! Congrats #SumitAntil on your glorious win! #ProudIndian #Tokyoparalympics2020 #Tokyo2020 #ting''.

Anil Kapoor, on the other hand, celebrated the second victorious gold for India by saying, ''Another for !! Congratulations #SumitAntil!!! #TokyoParalympics.'