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World Service,02 Sep 2021,9 mins

India's first Paralympic champion

Sporting Witness

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In 1972, war veteran Murlikant Petkar won India's first ever Paralympic gold medal at the Heidelberg Games. Petkar had been shot and paralysed seven years earlier in a battle during the war with Pakistan, but then took up sprint swimming. He spoke to Adrian Moorhead in 2016. The programme is a Sparklab Production for BBC World Service. (Photo: Murlikant Petkar with his medals)

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