Pune’s Para Olympian Athlete  Suyash Jadhav felicitated by PM Modi   

Pune: NP NEWS 24 ONLINE –“It was not easy to pull off gold medal while competing with one of the most talented Asian players, but I had worked really hard for this competition and I got successful,” said the Asian para games 3 medals winner Pune’s Suyash Jadhav.

In recently concluded Jakarta Asian Games Suyash Jadhav reached all new heights by winning the gold medal. This is the 1^st time that Indian swimmer has won a gold medal in this competition. He won gold in 50-meter butterfly stroke, bronze medal in 200 meters and 50-meter freestyle.

For this great achievement, he was being felicitated by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. He said that this has boosted his confidence and he will try to continue the hard work in future as well. He was talking in a press conference on Monday.

He is now aiming at gold in 2020 Para Olympic

Suyash’s Achievements

Training at the Deccan Gymkhana in Pune, Suyash gained prominence when he won a silver and a bronze medal at the 2015 IWAS World Games in Sochi, Russia, conducted by the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation. In doing so, Suyash became the first Indian Para swimmer to register the ‘A’ qualifying mark for the 2016 Paralympics in Rio.

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He followed this up with four medals at the 2015 Winter Open Polish Championship in November and continued his medal-winning form into 2016, winning three silver medals at the German swimming championship in January.

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Having already registered the qualifying mark, Suyash is now vying to improve his timings further to get within medal contention for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio.

World class training

Coach Tapan Kumar Panagri said, other swimmers should also take inspiration from the success of Suyash. He has achieved this success by facing too many challenges. There is no success without facing difficult situations. Suyash has done hard work and made his name shine. We are giving him world class training so he can win gold in the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Tragedy Strikes

Suyash was born in 1993 in Solapur, Maharashtra. He started swimming at a very young age, following in his father’s footstep who was a national level swimmer himself. He aspired to fulfil his father’s destiny one day by competing and winning medals at the international stage.

However, tragedy struck in Class 6, when a routine day of fun and games ended with Suyash suffering serious injuries to his upper limbs after getting accidentally electrocuted by unprotected wiring at a construction site. Both his arms had to be amputated and he subsequently spent six months in hospital following the incident. However, Suyash did not give up on his dreams and his love for swimming. He continued to compete in differently-abled competitions domestically and began to show promise. Not long after he started competing and winning medals for India at the international level, fulfilling a childhood dream.