Twitter reacts to Devendra Jhajharia's record-breaking gold medal in Paralympics

ByKishore Kumar, SportsCafe Editor

09/14/2016

Devendra Jhajharia became the first Indian to win two gold medals, at the Paralympics(2004, 2016) as the 35-year old won India's fourth medal in Paralympics. Here is the list of tweets from our Prime Minister to the Twitter king Virender Sehwag, who heaped praise on the Champion.

That is indeed a record to be proud of!

#DevendraJhajharia becomes 1st Indian ever to win two individual #Gold medals at #Paralympics in #Athens & #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/LXO5k0T5zM
— RioOlympic2016-India (@IndiaAtRio) September 14, 2016

What a throw it was!

Congratulations #DevendraJhajharia for the #gold medal at #Paralympics! Another spectacular throw! We are proud of you!
— Anil Kumble (@anilkumble1074) September 14, 2016

How does it feel to break your own World record! Ask Jhajharia!

#Athletics #DevendraJhajharia creates a new #worldrecord in men's Javelinthrow to win #Gold at #Rio2016 #Paralympics pic.twitter.com/qdOlq0Hx6K
— RioOlympic2016-India (@IndiaAtRio) September 14, 2016

Virender Sehwag was the first of sportsperson to wish him, and he did it in own unique style

#Paralympics is pyaara-lympics. Bow down to #DevendraJhajharia fr d Gold&new World Record.He won Gold in2004as well pic.twitter.com/s4DzALa5hG
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) September 14, 2016

Then came the others...

Congratulations #DevendraJhajharia for Gold🎖 in #Paralympics

You have made INDIA proud..... great job🖒
— Sakshi Malik (@SakshiMalik) September 14, 2016

Congrats #DevendraJhajharia fr the Gold& new World Record.Truly inspiring,wishing fr more coverage than ur 2004 gold pic.twitter.com/FKl8GiTfdy
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) September 14, 2016

#DevendraJhajharia become first Indian ever to win 2 gold medals at #Paralympics 🇮🇳
— Vijender Singh (@boxervijender) September 14, 2016

Bollywood was not to be left behind....

Awesome👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #DevendraJhajharia https://t.co/pOAOHnemz5
— Farhan Akhtar (@FarOutAkhtar) September 14, 2016

Devendra Jhajharia - The Man!

Congratulations #DevendraJhajharia Your #Gold @ #Paralympics is inspiring to many. Kudos to your efforts 👍 #Rio2016 https://t.co/WvFquNJ1FF
— Rajyavardhan Rathore (@Ra_THORe) September 14, 2016

Golden moment for #India! Congrats to #DevendraJhajharia for Gold in #Paralympics Javelin throw & a new world record
— Vijay Goel (@VijayGoelBJP) September 14, 2016

We are indeed proud of him!

Congratulations to Devendra Jhajharia for the historic and well-deserved Gold at the #Paralympics. We are very proud of him. #Rio2016
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 14, 2016