Prachi Yadav is an Indian para canoe athlete who became the first Indian to compete in a para canoeing event at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. In 2022, she won a bronze medal at the Paracanoe World Cup in Poland.
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Wiki/Biography
Prachi Yadav was born on Monday, 29 May 1995 (age 28 years; as in 2023) in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. His zodiac sign is Gemini. In 2013, she completed her schooling from Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir, Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh. In 2016, he earned a B.Com degree from KRG College, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. In 2018, she moved to Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 6″
Weight (Approx): 60 kg
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
Prachi Yadav’s father Jagdish Singh Yadav is a retired Deputy Director in the Agriculture Department. His mother Chandra Kumari Yadav died in 2003 after a long battle with cancer. He has a younger brother and an elder sister named Roshni.
Prachi with her brother and sister
Husband
On 11 June 2020, she got married to para canoeist Manish Kaurav. Manish’s family initially did not accept this marriage but finally after a year they accepted it.
Prachi Yadav with Manish Kaurav
livelihood
national championship
In 2018, Prachi started training para canoeing professionally. In 2019, she participated in the 29th National Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe Championships held in Delhi and won two medals, silver in the VL2 women’s category and gold in the KL2 women’s category. In 2020, she was the runner-up in both KL2 Women and VL2 Women categories at the National Paracanoe Competition and Paracanoe Classification held in Bhind, Madhya Pradesh. In 2021, she won gold medals in both the KL2 Women and VL2 Women categories at the 14th National Paracanoe Championships held in Bhopal, India. In 2022, she won a silver medal in the paracanoe classification at the 15th National Paracanoe Championships and a gold medal in the VL2 women’s category. The same year, she won gold medals in both the KL2 Women and VL2 Women categories at the 16th National Paracanoe Championships held in Bhopal, India.
Prachi Yadav in the 16th Paracanoe National Championship
international championship
In 2019, Prachi finished eighth at the 2019 ICF World Championships held in Germany. In May 2022, Prachi won the gold medal at the Asian Canoe Para Qualifiers of the Asian Para Games held in Rayong, Thailand in the VL2 women’s category, covering the 200m distance in 01:07.200. The same year, she won a bronze medal at the ICF Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe World Cup in the VL2 women’s category held in Poznan, Poland, covering the 200 meters in 01:04.71.
Prachi Yadav Para Canoeing at World Championships 2022
In 2023, she won gold medals in both the KL2 Women’s and VL2 Women’s categories at the 3rd Asian Paracanoe Championships held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, covering the 500 meters in timings of 02:38.441 and 02:55.482 respectively. She then won a silver medal in the KL2 women’s class 200 m event at the 3rd Asian Paracanoe Championships, which she completed in a time of 01:00.725, and a gold medal in the VL2 women’s class 200 m event, which she completed in a time of 01:11.259. Did. In October 2023, she represented India at the 4th Asian Para Games held in Hangzhou, China, where she won a silver medal in the VL2 women’s category and a gold medal in the KL2 women’s category.
first gold of the second day #AsianParaGames,
Our #TOPScheme Athlete @Itzprachi_ won the gold medal for India in Para Canoe, Women’s KL2 with an impressive clocking of 54.962. This is his second medal #AsianParaGames2022
Congratulations to Prachi for this remarkable achievement… pic.twitter.com/i2ZIKRq2Pn
– SAI Media (@Media_SAI) 24 October 2023
Awards and Honors
- On 29 August 2020, which is celebrated as National Sports Day, he received the Vikram Award from the Government of Madhya Pradesh for his performance in Para Canoeing in various national and international competitions.
- On 9 January 2024, she received the Arjuna Award from Indian President Draupadi Murmu for her outstanding performance in para canoeing.
Prachi Yadav receiving the Arjuna Award from Draupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
Facts/General Knowledge
- Prachi Yadav was a national-level para-swimmer before she shifted to para-canoeing in 2018 on the advice of her swimming coach Virendra Kumar Dabas.
Prachi’s Instagram post about Para-Swimming Championship 2022
He has a disability below the waist, which restricts movements of his lower body. In an interview, while talking about the change in his career, he said,
Virendra Kumar Dabas sir of LNIPE, Gwalior asked me to switch to Paracanoe as my arms were long. The decision worked.”
- Prachi practices para-canoeing at Lower Lake in Bhopal, India, and is trained under the guidance of Captain Piyush Kanti Baroi and Mayank Singh Thakur.
Prachi with her coach Mayank Thakur
- The boat that Prachi used in the initial stages of her training was designed by Mayank Thakur, President of India Para Kayaking and Canoeing Association and was the first boat designed specifically for an Indian para-canoeing athlete. Was.
- In 2020, she became the first Indian Paracanoe athlete to qualify for the Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
- Prachi Yadav is one of the many athletes under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS).
- She regularly exercises at the gym and often posts about it on her Instagram account.
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