Hailing from Uttar Pradesh Sumit Choudhary is an Indian para-athlete and the only state first blade runner in the T42 category who has successfully completed about 19 marathons without any support from anyone.

In 2016, Sumit met with a road accident when he was on his way to the gym, which left him with a crushed left leg and other injuries. After hours of struggle in the operation theatre, Sumit came out with one leg amputated due to blood loss and infection. He subsequently spent one month in hospital following the incident.

Further inspiration for Sumit originated from Arunima Sinha (the World’s first female mountaineer who scaled the Mount Everest despite a leg amputation) who motivates him to pursue his dreams.

However, he did not give up on his dreams and running was always in his mind. Sumit did not let the amputation stop him from excelling in running marathons. In 2018 Sumit started running in 3km marathons without any coach or expert and the victory gave Sumit a surge in confidence, and he continued running marathons. It was only the start of an inspiring journey.

He defied the amputation to run marathons and says he recognized it as a challenge. He made up his mind to give his life a brand new purpose and ensure that his “quality of life” was never compromised. Rather than competing with para-athletes, he is competing with regular athletes and to date, he has completed a 10km marathon and that too with borrowed blade.

With a motive to motivate others, he says, “If I could rise above difficulties and become an achiever, so can others”. He has also been invited as a guest speaker at events around Delhi. His immediate goal is to run a 100 marathons.

Due to unaffordability, he borrows a blade that is not of his size as needed for a marathon and is looking to get his own blade. If you would like to support him to get his blade, do let us know in the comments below or send us a message directly to get in touch with him.

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Hailing from Jammu, this pro-Para-athlete has the distinction of winning a big haul of medals in Taekwondo at the international level at the age of 19. Before bagging 2 golds in South Korea, Chandeep Singh has won gold medals in Asian Taekwondo Championship at Vietnam and International Taekwondo Championship in Nepal. It is for the first time in Indian history that any Para-athlete won a medal at the World Taekwondo Championship.

Chandeep Singh was an 11-year-old when he suffered a life-threatening electric current of 11,000 volts. Surviving the high-voltage current was in itself a miracle, yet the harm it did to his body was devastating. Chandeep suffered fourth-degree burns, and also the infection forced the doctors to amputate both his arms. But losing his arms didn’t break his spirit, days after he was released from the hospital, he was back in the sports arena, to win it big in Taekwondo and skating.

His underlying attempts at skating were more challenging since athletes need their arms to balance themselves. However, giving up was never part of the plan. Eventually, all his hard work paid off, practicing with able-bodied national skaters. Initially, he kept falling a lot because he didn’t have arms to keep the balance. But, after falling a countless number of times, he finally managed it.

Today, he is a national level skater and holds the world record for the fastest 100-meters para skating (13.95s). He has also been selected as one of the ‘Six Heroes of India’ by India Today and been awarded the “Pehal Youth Proud Award” on Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s Birthday, among different achievements.

Further inspiration for Chandeep originated from the unbelievable Indian sprinter Milkha Singh. “I need to state that Chandeep is making his nation proud, others ought to likewise imitate and perform similar accomplishments when Chandeep came to my home, I saw that he was working on his laptop and mobile with feet, he doesn’t have hands, I was really moved,” said Milkha Singh

Not only in sports but he is also best at studies as well, he has completed his Electric Engineering course from MBS College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu and is pursuing an ambition for the prestigious IAS examination to show the world that adversaries could be turned into beauties.

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