Pune: Havildar an Indian soldier Saman Rana, who lost his right foot in a mine explosion in the field in the field in 2006, has been eligible for Tokyo Paralympics 2020 in the shooting seat category, F 57.
Paralmpics is scheduled between August 24 and September 5.
Shutter Practicing in the set-up of the army nodes in the Bombay Engineering Group and the center in Pune since 2017.
He has been active in sports since he joined the army.
He has played for Gorkha 2/8 rifle regiments in boxing competition in the past.
However, after losing his right foot during security operations at Jammu and Kashmir, he had to break from sports and continue the general task at the unit level.
But his meeting with Colonel Gaurav Dutta, then responsible for the node, changed his view.
“I met him in the center of the artificial limb (ALC) in Pune.
He told me that I could still pursue a career in sports.
He asked me to throw a shot and I did it.
Based on the trial, he chose me to sport,” said the shutter told Toi on Wednesday.
Colonel Dutta said Havildar Rana had committed extraordinary in various sports events, including being shot.
“During the national match in 2018, the committee had allowed an athlete from the army to participate in a shot contest.
At that time, the shutter had participated in the Javelin throw and won the medal.
So I asked him to empty the place for another athlete for the shooting event.
And he did it .
Another athlete won a gold medal on the show and got the qualification for the Asian Games, “remember Dutta.
Rana is an international athlete and stands second in the world ranking in its categories, said the army.
This year, the shutter continued its training in the midst of all restrictions and won the gold medal in Tunis World of the Athletics Grand Prix and two gold medals and one silver at the Athletics Athletics XIX championship.
He has cleared the Olympic Olympic Olympic qualification testing held in Delhi in June.
In the training during the Covid-19 pandemic time, Rana, said, “It was a very difficult time for me.
But I continued my physical and mental training at home and whenever possible on the node.
I did spend hours on the shot placing throwing throws on the ground too.
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