Sporting Witness
Sporting Witness
India's first Paralympic champion
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September 2, 2021
10 minutes
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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)