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Story. In 1972, Murlikant Petkar won India its first-ever Paralympic gold medal in Heidelberg, Germany, for the 50 m freestyle swimming. Back then, he had set a world record of blazing across the waters in an impressive 37.33 seconds.
Sep 4, 2024 · Murlikant Petkar had an Olympic dream far before he became a paraplegic during the 1965 India-Pakistan war. A two-year coma, and even a bullet lodged in his spine didn't stop him from becoming ...
Murlikant Petkar is India's first Paralympic gold medalist. He won an individual gold medal in the 1972 Summer Paralympics, in Heidelberg, Germany. He set a world record in the 50 m freestyle swimming event, at 37.33 seconds.
Mar 25, 2018 · Earlier, at the 3rd Commonwealth Paraplegic Games at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1970, Petkar had bagged a gold in the 50 metre freestyle swimming, a silver in javelin throw and a bronze in...
Aug 24, 2021 · A visit to London just before the 1968 Paralympic Games at Tel Aviv, Israel, proved an eye-opener for Murlikant Petkar, India’s first gold medallist in the Paralympics.
Jun 15, 2024 · For Murlikant Petkar, the challenge came from a Pakistani battlefield in the year 1965. A young aspiring soldier was suddenly left paraplegic. But that wasn’t the end of his story; it was merely the first chapter in the rise of India’s first Paralympic gold medallist.
Aug 12, 2023 · Petkar, now 77, is a war hero and the winner of India’s first-ever Paralympics gold medal. He won the gold in the 50m freestyle (swimming) in 1972 in Heidelberg, Germany with a then world record time. And that after he had sustained multiple bullet wounds, nine to be precise, in the 1965 India-Pakistan war.
