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India's First Paralympic Hero
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 00:08:56
Publish Date: 2016-09-10 03:00:00
Description: In 1972, war veteran Murlikant Petkar won India's first ever Paralympic gold medal at the Heidelberg Games. Petkar had been shot and paralysed seven years earlier in a battle during the war with Pakistan, but then took up sprint swimming. He talks to Adrian Moorhead. The programme is a Sparklab Production for BBC World Service. (Photo: Murlikant Petkar with his medals)
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