Tokyo Paralympics: Can’t categorical how completely happy we’re, says gold medalist Pramod Bhagat’s brother

Pramod Bhagat clinched the gold medal in badminton at Tokyo Paralympics by defeating Bathell 21-14, 21-17 in two straight units on Saturday. Pramod Bhagat had set his sights on the Paralympic medal after badminton was introduced to make its debut in Tokyo (Instagram Phot)HIGHLIGHTSPramod Bhagat is the first Indian to win a para badminton gold medalPramod hails from a small village, Attabira, in Bargarh district of OdishaPramod received the gold medal in males’s singles badminton SL3 eventAce para shuttler from Odisha Pramod Bhagat scripted historical past by turning into first badminton participant from India to win a gold medal on the Paralympic Games by beating Great Britain’s Daniel Bathell 2-0 within the Men’s Singles SL3 ultimate on the Tokyo on Saturday.

Bhagat clinched the Gold medal by defeating Bathell 21-14, 21-17 in two straight units. He received the primary sport in 21 minutes and the second in 24 minutes.Coming from small village Attabira in Bargarh district of Odisha, contracted Polio on the age of Four, Pramod has 5 siblings, two brothers and three sisters. He misplaced each his dad and mom few years again.Talking to India Today, Pramod’s youthful brother Shekhar stated, “We can’t express our happiness in words, how happy we are after our brother Pramod won the Gold medal.”He was in love with badminton, “sometimes our father used to get infuriated over his playing badminton every time, Dad would say instead of playing most of the time, if you put your mind to studies, you can get a good job. Now he has brought Gold for country.”Pramod use to say, as soon as he wins a gold medal, he’ll get married.”As soon as the news of Pramod winning the Gold medal broke, his family members, friends and neighbours gathered outside his ESIC Government quarter at Bhubaneswar and started celebrating.The scene was similar at his hometown in attabira.Earlier, Odisha Secretary Sports and Youth services Vineel Krishna took to twitter and wrote All the Best #GOForGold after Bhagat sought support and prayers from all before the Final match.Pramod had written “It’s an enormous day for Indian Sports tomorrow & I might need all of us to return collectively. When I picked up the racquet in my teenage it was my dream to be taking part in at this stage & serving the nation in my better of limits. My goal is to make India the badminton hub. I hope & pray I succeed.”Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik additionally prolonged greetings to Pramod after he turned the first-ever shuttler to win Gold Medal in para-badminton males’s singles SL3 on the Paralympic Games.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.