Yogesh Kathuniya Height, Age, Girlfriend, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Yogesh Kathuniya

• Yogesh Kathuniya is an Indian Paralympic athlete who competes within the monitor and subject occasion of discus throw. He represented India within the 2020 Summer Paralympics that had been held in Tokyo and gained a silver medal within the males’s discus throw F56 occasion.

• Yogesh Kathuniya’s father was within the Indian Army, and he was posted within the Chandimandir Cantonment in Haryana. In 2006, Yogesh was eight years previous when he suffered a paralytic assault, and he was recognized with a uncommon dysfunction referred to as Guillain-Barre syndrome, adopted by quadriparesis that pressured him to rely upon a wheelchair.

• Yogesh was certain to a wheelchair with no scope of enchancment; nevertheless, his mom discovered physiotherapy to make sure that Yogesh regained his muscle power. After three years of physiotherapy, Yogesh was capable of stand on his feet, and he removed the wheelchair.

• In college, Yogesh was mocked by the opposite college students, and he confirmed little interest in taking part in any sports activities exercise. In 2017, Yogesh went to Kirori Mal College, Delhi, to pursue a bachelor’s diploma in commerce and made some new associates. One of his associates and the overall secretary of the scholars’ union of Kirori Mal College, Sachin Yadav, inspired Yogesh and launched him to the world of para-athletics. During an interview, Yogesh said-
  

  Sachin Yadav was basic secretary of the scholars’ union at Kirori Mal College in New Delhi the place I used to be pursuing B.Com. He inspired me to take up a sport and motivated me by displaying movies of para athletes. Somehow I received a liking for discus throw and determined to provide it a strive.”

• Yogesh’s curiosity in athletics and his robust constructed had been observed by the college coaches, and finally, he started coaching underneath famend coach Naval Singh on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi. Yogesh spent lots of time coaching with Naval Singh, and in 2018, Yogesh participated within the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships in Berlin and created a world file. He threw the disc to a distance of 45.18 m.

• In 2019, Yogesh participated within the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai and gained a bronze medal.

India’s #YogeshKathuniya gained the silver medal in males’s discus throw F56 class with a throw of 42.05m on the World Para Athletics Championships. With this he additionally gained a 2020 Paralympic quota. @BhyanEkta additionally gained a quota in ladies’s membership throw F51.
Many Congratulations. pic.twitter.com/4R24VP0nND

— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) November 12, 2019

• The win in Dubai booked a berth for Yogesh on the 2020 Summer Paralympics, and he made it definitely worth the effort by profitable a silver medal within the males’s discus throw F56 occasion with one of the best throw of 44.38 m.
  

  Yogesh Kathuniya posing with the silver medal on the 2020 Summer Olympics

• After Yogesh gained the silver medal in Tokyo, his mom spoke to the media and talked in regards to the robust instances they needed to face throughout the wheelchair-ridden section of Yogesh. She said-
  

  While the docs on the Command Hospital at Chandimandir mentioned they couldn’t see Yogesh strolling sooner or later, I didn’t imagine that. For greater than two years, I’d tie him with a fabric on my Scooty and take him for physiotherapy periods at Command Hospital and PGIMER. To see Yogesh win the silver medal in Tokyo whereas tied with a strap to the wheelchair made me bear in mind all these arduous days. The silver is value greater than gold for us.”

  She additional added,

  Apart from the Army hospitals, I’d additionally journey to locations like Agra, Meerut, and Jaipur when anyone advised me to get Yogesh massaged from a neighborhood masseur. I bear in mind as soon as I spent greater than 20 days at a well-known therapeutic massage specialist in a village on the Jaipur-Jodhpur freeway within the sweltering June warmth. I additionally learnt physiotherapy and when Yogesh recovered, the identical docs at Base Hospital advised me that it’s a miracle.”

• It was reported that with the assistance of his college associates and the Asian medallist Neeraj Yadav, Yogesh was capable of start his coaching on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. The family additionally took monetary assist from Neeraj and a few of Yogesh’s associates to help his first journey overseas for competing in an occasion. Yogesh’s mom said-
  

  Friends like Neeraj helped Yogesh and it’s their silver medal too.”

• During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, Yogesh gained greater than 15 kgs, which affected his efficiency throughout the coaching periods. On the opposite hand, Naval Singh was examined constructive for the virus in 2020, and he examined constructive once more in May 2021. Due to this, he despatched Yogesh to coach underneath the 2018 Asian Games silver medallist Virender Dhankar.
  

  Yogesh Kathuniya throughout his apply periods

• Yogesh is keen on the Indian candy ras malai, and he loves khichdi. During an interview, his mom knowledgeable the reporters how Yogesh would eat 4-5 plates of ras malai earlier than his paralytic assault, and he continued to comply with that ritual regardless of the hardships he confronted in life.

• Yogesh additionally has a YouTube channel named ‘Bichu Don Gaming,’ which he began within the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Yogesh posts gameplay of the well-known battle royale sport ‘PUBG’ on his channel. He sometimes posts vlogs of his coaching periods and each day routines as nicely on his channel.

• Yogesh gained a gold medal in shotput on the Open Para Athletics Championship in 2018 in Bengaluru.