World Para Championships: Para athlete Deepti won gold with a world record
World Para Championships: Para athlete Deepti won gold with a world record, created history in the 400-meter race
Deepti took up athletics only two years ago. He has a problem with his eyes. He had set a new Asian record by clocking 56.18 seconds in the heats on Sunday, which he converted into a world record in the final.
Indian para-athlete Deepti Jeevanji won the gold medal in the World Para Athletics with a world record. Intellectually disabled Deepti created a new record by timing 55.07 seconds in the 400-meter race in the T-20 category. She left behind the record of 55.12 seconds set by America's Briana Clark in the same championship last year. Turkey's Aysel Onder won silver with 55.19 seconds and Ecuador's Lijanshela Angulo won bronze with 56.68 seconds.
There is a problem in Deepti's eyes.
Deepti took up athletics only two years ago. He has a problem with his eyes. He had set a new Asian record by clocking 56.18 seconds in the heats on Sunday, which he converted into a world record in the final. indian discus thrower yogesh Kathunia won the silver medal in the F-56 category of discus throw with a throw of 41.80 meters. This is the third medal of yogesh in the World Championships, who won silver in the tokyo Paralympics. Last year he won a silver medal in Paris and in 2019 he won a bronze medal in Dubai.
Taunts were given that the marriage would not take place.
Deepti's parents, a residents of warangal (Telangana) district, are labourers. According to her coach N Ramesh, her villagers used to taunt her that she would not get married because she was mentally weak, but her life changed after winning gold in the Hangzhou Asiad. Even when the district collector visited Deepti's house, her parents were surprised. A PET teacher first recognized Deepti's talent in a school meet. He told the teacher to send Deepti to him in Hyderabad. They were told that Deepti did not have money to pay the bus fare. He talked to the conductor and called Deepti to hyderabad and later paid the bus fare to the conductor. Gopichand's organization is sponsoring Deepti.