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#28 Devendra Jhajharia | An Indian Para-Athlete’s Journey to Olympic Gold
Category: Society & Culture
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Publish Date: 2017-12-27 06:30:00
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An 8-year old who woke up on a hospital bed realizing that he had lost an arm, 15 years later at the Athens Paralympics flung his javelin a world record distance. At 35, he set a new world record at Rio 2016, bagging another Olympic gold. Deservedly, he has become the face of India’s para-athlete movement. Arguably, he is also the first differently-abled athlete to gather the spotlight of Indian sport. Here’s the story.
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