Prachi Yadav Height, Age, Husband, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Prachi Yadav

• Prachi Yadav is an Indian para canoe athlete. She turned the primary athlete from India to compete in a world para canoeing occasion when she represented India on the Tokyo Paralympics in 2020. She received a bronze medal on the Paracanoe World Cup in Poland.

• Prachi started skilled paracanoeing coaching in 2018.

• In 2019, on the twenty ninth National Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe Championships in Delhi, she competed and received two medals: a silver medal within the VL2 Women class and a gold medal within the KL2 Women class.

• She was positioned second in each the KL2 Women and VL2 Women classes on the 2020 National Paracanoe Competition & Paracanoe Classification, which was held in Bhind, Madhya Pradesh.

• In 2021, she received a gold medal on the 14th National Paracanoe Championships in Bhopal, India, in each the KL2 Women and VL2 Women classes.

• In 2022, she received a silver medal within the KL2 Women class and a gold medal within the VL2 Women class on the fifteenth National Paracanoe Championships and Paracanoe Classification.

• At the sixteenth National Paracanoe Championships held in Bhopal, India, she received gold in each the KL2 Women and VL2 Women classes.

• Prachi positioned eighth within the 2019 ICF World Championships, held in Germany.

• In May 2022, Prachi received a gold medal within the VL2 Women class of the Asian Canoe Para Qualifiers for the Asian Para Games, which have been held in Rayong, Thailand, by which she coated a distance of 200 metres in 01:07.200.

• In the identical 12 months, she received a bronze medal within the 200-meter VL2 Women class of the ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Cup, which was held in Poznan, Poland. The time taken by her to finish the 200-meter race was 01:04.71.
  

  Prachi after turning into the first Indian Canoeist to win a World Cup Medal

• In 2023, she received a gold medal within the KL2 Women and VL2 Women classes on the third Asian Paracanoe Championship, which was held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Her time for overlaying a 500-meter distance within the KL2 class was 02:38.441, and within the VL2 class, it was 02:55.482.

• At the third Asian Paracanoe Championship, she received a silver medal within the KL2 Women class 200-meter occasion, which she completed in 01:00.725 and a gold medal within the VL2 Women class 200-meter occasion, which she completed in 01:11.259.
  

  Prachi Yadav after profitable the third Asian Paracanoe Championship 2023

• She competed for India on the 4th Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, China, in October 2023. There, she received a gold medal within the KL2 Women class and a silver medal within the VL2 Women class.

• Before switching to para canoeing in 2018, Prachi Yadav was a national-level para swimmer.

• She switched to para canoeing as per the advice of her swimming coach, Virender Kumar Dabas. Her decrease physique actions are restricted attributable to a incapacity beneath her waist. In an interview, whereas speaking concerning the change in her profession, she stated,
  

  Virender Kumar Dabas sir from LNIPE, Gwalior requested me to change to paracanoe as I received lengthy arms. The choice labored.”

• Prachi receives coaching in para canoeing on the Lower Lake in Bhopal, India.

• The first boat made particularly for an Indian para-canoeist was created by Mayank Thakur, the chairperson of the India Para Kayaking and Canoeing Association, and it was utilized by Prachi throughout her early coaching periods.

• She made historical past in 2020 when she certified for the Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, by turning into the first-ever Indian Paracanoe athlete on the Summer Paralympics.

• Prachi Yadav is among the many athletes below the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS).

• In an interview, whereas speaking about her struggles as a para-athlete, she stated,
  

  When I started in sports activities, my relations would say what can she do? She can’t do something. She can’t even journey a cycle, she will be able to’t stroll. When my father first went to get me admitted to a college, they refused to simply accept me saying, how will your daughter deal with being right here? Who will assist right here?”

• She recurrently workouts on the gymnasium and sometimes posts about her exercise regime on her Instagram account.