This para-athlete surpassed numerous odds to clinch a historic silver in table tennis at the Tokyo Paralympic Games this year, a remarkable achievement for someone who started playing the game as an adult
Paralympians Bhavina Patel
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As Bhavina Patel arrived at the Ahmedabad airport, she received a grand welcome with drumrolls, loud cheers, dance and a hoarding that read ‘India’s pride Bhavina Patel’. The 35-year-old was overwhelmed because it was the first time in her career that she had received such a huge welcome. Patel has won many medals in the past at the international level, but she finally had her moment in the sun after she clinched a historic silver in the women’s single table tennis, class 4, at the Tokyo Paralympic Games in August.
(This story appears in the 03 December, 2021 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)