{"id":55381,"date":"2024-05-21T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/who-is-deepthi-jeevanji-know-about-first-indian-para-athlete-to-win-gold-at-world-championships-track-events\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:48:10","slug":"who-is-deepthi-jeevanji-know-about-first-indian-para-athlete-to-win-gold-at-world-championships-track-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/who-is-deepthi-jeevanji-know-about-first-indian-para-athlete-to-win-gold-at-world-championships-track-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Deepthi Jeevanji? Know about first Indian para athlete to win gold at World Championships track events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/05\/indiatv-59-1716291514.jpg?fit=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Who is Deepthi Jeevanji? Know about first Indian para athlete to win gold at World Championships track events\" title=\"Who is Deepthi Jeevanji? Know about first Indian para athlete to win gold at World Championships track events\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : PARALYMPIC INDIA\/X<\/span> Deepthi Jeevanji at the World Para Athletics Championships 2024 in Kobe on May 20, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\">The rising athlete\u00a0Deepthi Jeevanji made every Indian proud with a historic Gold at the\u00a0World Para Athletics Championships 2024 in Kobe on Monday, May 20. She broke the world record in the women&#8217;s\u00a0400-meter T20 run in a record time of 55.07 seconds to qualify for the Paris Olympic Games 2024.  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>However, this is not the first time Deepthi has made the headline in Indian sports. She famously bagged the Gold in the Para Asian Games in Hangzhou last year with a record timing. Deepthi has emerged as India&#8217;s one of the best athletes to look out for in future events so, let&#8217;s take a look at her short but remarkable career.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Who is\u00a0Deepthi Jeevanji?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Born in 2003 in Telangana&#8217;s\u00a0Kalleda village, Warangal district, Deephti was\u00a0certified under the mentally impaired category at the National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disability in Hyderabad. She was allowed to participate in para-athlete events after a suggestion by the former Indian badminton player\u00a0Pullela Gopichand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was part of the Indian women&#8217;s that participated in the Asian Para Games 2023 in Hangzhou. She won the gold medal in the 400m run in the T20 category with a new Asian Para record and the Games record in her pet event. She produced a 56.69-second\u00a0finish to win the Gold medal in Hangzhou.<\/p>\n<p>At the World Para Athletics Championships 2024 in Kobe, Japan, she set a new Asian record of 56.09 seconds on Sunday to qualify for the finals. In the finals, Deepthi produced her best performance of her career to shatter the USA&#8217;s star athlete Breanna Clark&#8217;s previous world record of 55.12 seconds set in the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships 2024.    <\/p>\n<p>Deepthi clocked 55.05 seconds to set a new world record\u00a0by clocking 55.07 seconds\u00a0in the\u00a0women\u2019s 400m T20 category race at the World Para Athletics Championships history. She became the first Indian athlete to win the Gold medal at\u00a0track events in\u00a0World Championships history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/other\/who-is-deepthi-jeevanji-know-about-first-indian-para-athlete-to-win-gold-at-world-championships-track-events-2024-05-21-932600\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : PARALYMPIC INDIA\/X Deepthi Jeevanji at the World Para Athletics Championships 2024 in Kobe on May 20, 2024 The rising athlete\u00a0Deepthi Jeevanji made every Indian proud with a historic Gold at the\u00a0World Para Athletics Championships 2024 in Kobe on Monday, May 20. 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