Para-athlete Chandeep Singh not only won a medal at the World Taekwondo Championship but also holds a world record in Para-skating

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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