India's Suhas Yathiraj defeated Indonesia's Fredy Setiawan 21-18, 21-18 in the SL4 final for her maiden world title. Photo: X (Suhas L Yathiraj) India's Suhas Yathiraj defeated Indonesia's Fredy Setiawan 21-18, 21-18 in the SL4 final for her maiden world title. Photo: X (Suhas L Yathiraj) 
India's Suhas Yathiraj, Pramod Bhagat and Krishna Nagar capped their impressive run by securing gold medals in men's singles SL4, SL3 and SH6 classes, respectively at the Para-Badminton World Championship in Pattaya, Thailand on Sunday. (More Badminton News)
The world No 3 Yathiraj, a Paralympic silver medallist, outwitted Indonesia's Fredy Setiawan 21-18 21-18 in SL4 final for her maiden world title.
"Gold it is, Happy and proud to be World Champion," tweeted the 40-year-old Yathiraj, who hails from Karnataka and is an IAS officer of the 2007 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Reaction from Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj 🇮🇳 following his semifinal victory against Lucas Mazur 🇫🇷 at #Pattaya2024. 👏#Parabadminton #BWFWorldChampionships pic.twitter.com/Tfhkctr87D
— BWF (@bwfmedia) February 24, 2024He is currently the Secretary and Director General of Youth Welfare and Prantiya Rakshak Dal in the UP government.
Bhagat, who won a gold and two bronze at the Para Asian Games in China, edged out England's Daniel Bethell 14-21 21-15 21-14 in SL3 final.
The 35-year-old Bhagat, a Paralympic gold medallist, thus completed a hat-trick of crowns after Stoke Mandeville in 2015 and Basel in 2019. He also won a gold medal at 2022 Tokyo Paralympics.
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In women'singles SU5, Manisha Ramadass signed off with a silver medal after losing 16-21 16-21 to China's Yang Qiu Xia in the final.
The men's doubles pair of Chirag Baretha and Raj Kumar and women's doubles combination of Rachana Shaileshkumar and Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan settled for a silver each, after losing their respective final matches in SU5 and SH6 categories.
It is a draw of 16 in the singles eventgcash player, while the doubles is a draw of 8 pairs.