India's Bhavina Patel and Shubham Wadhwa secured a bronze medal in mixed doubles XD7 table tennis at the Asian Para Games in Nagoya on Thursday, IANS reported.

Source: IANS

The Indian pair lost their semifinal to South Korea's Jang Yeongjin and Lee Migyu 6-11, 11-8, 5-11, 8-11, but their place on the podium had already been secured by their quarterfinal victory.

In the quarterfinals, Bhavina and Shubham beat Japan's Kimie Bessho and Masanori Uno 11-9, 11-3, 11-6 in straight games to guarantee themselves a medal. ANI's coverage, carried by Devdiscourse and LatestLY, also recorded the pair's XD7 bronze.

The XD7 category features wheelchair athletes with moderate sitting balance. Elsewhere, India's Dattaprasad Chougule and Savita narrowly missed a semifinal berth in the XD17 event, losing a five-game match to the Philippines' Wilfred Redulla and Manginsay Lhey after winning the first two games.

IANS put India fifth in the medal table at the time of writing with 74 medals, including 17 gold, 23 silver and 34 bronze.