India’s Simran received the bronze medal within the girls’s 200m T12 closing.© X (Twitter)
Braving all odds with a steely resolve, India’s Simran received the bronze medal within the girls’s 200m T12 closing on the Paralympic Video games in Paris on Saturday. Reigning world champion Simran completed third on the rostrum with a private greatest time of 24.75 seconds in what was a fruits of a journey that was fraught with obstacles proper from the day she was born. The T12 classification within the Paralympics is for athletes with visible impairments.
The 24-year-old Simran was born prematurely and spent the subsequent 10 weeks in an incubator the place it was found that she is visually impaired.
The Indian, who turned world champion this yr in Kobe, Japan, confronted quite a few challenges all through her life, together with her father’s continual sickness and eventual passing.
She had earlier completed fourth within the 100m occasion.
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