Friday, September 18, 2009
Disabled badminton player receives highest Indian sports honor
Polio-affected Parul Parmar of Gandhinagar, Gujarat, was last month honored with the Arjuna Award, the highest honor from the president of India for achievement in sports, in the Paralympics category. Parmar, 36, won the world badminton tournament for the disabled in 2007.
Disabled by polio in infancy, she has won 11 gold, three silver and two bronze medals since 2002. An exponent of the right-hand smash, Parmar won the badminton championship held at Kualalumpur at the first Asiad Paralympics in 2004.
In the second Asiad Paralympics held in Bengaluru in 2008, she won two gold medals and a silver; she defeated the Malaysian contestant in the singles and also won a gold in the doubles in tournament.
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Disabled by polio in infancy, she has won 11 gold, three silver and two bronze medals since 2002. An exponent of the right-hand smash, Parmar won the badminton championship held at Kualalumpur at the first Asiad Paralympics in 2004.
In the second Asiad Paralympics held in Bengaluru in 2008, she won two gold medals and a silver; she defeated the Malaysian contestant in the singles and also won a gold in the doubles in tournament.
To read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
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