Prachi Yadav is an Indian para kayaker who became the first Indian to compete in the para kayak competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. In 2022, she won a bronze medal at the Paracano World Cup in Poland.
Wiki/Biography
Prachi Yadav was born on Monday, May 29, 1995, in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh (age 28; as of 2023). Her zodiac sign is Gemini. She completed her studies in 2013 from Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir, Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh. She received her bachelor’s degree from KRG College, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh in 2016. In 2018, she moved to Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′6″
Weight (approximately): 60kg
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Prachi Yadav’s father, Jagdish Singh Yadav, is a retired deputy minister of agriculture. Her mother, Chandra Kumari Yadav, died in 2003 after a long battle with cancer. She has a brother and a sister named Roshni.
Prachi and her siblings
husband
On June 11, 2020, she married Manish Kaurav, a para-canoeist. Manish’s family initially did not accept their son’s marriage, but eventually accepted it a year later.
Prachi Yadav and Manish Kaurav
Profession
national championship
In 2018, Prachi began to receive professional training in kayaking for people with disabilities. In 2019, she participated in the 29th National Canoe Sprint and Para Canoe Championships in Delhi and won two medals: silver in the VL2 women’s category and gold in the KL2 women’s category. In 2020, she finished second in the KL2 Women and VL2 Women categories at the National Parakano Competition and Parakano Graded Competition held in Binder, Madhya Pradesh. In 2021, she won gold medals in the KL2 Women and VL2 Women categories at the 14th National Parakano Championships in Bhopal, India. In 2022, she won the silver medal in the KL2 women’s group and the gold medal in the VL2 women’s group at the 15th National Disabled Rowing Championships and the Disabled Rowing Classification Competition. Later that year, she won gold medals in the KL2 Women’s and VL2 Women’s categories at the 16th National Paralympic Championships in Bhopal, India.
Prachi Yadav at the 16th Parakano National Championship
international championship
In 2019, Prachi finished eighth at the 2019 ICF World Championships in Germany. In May 2022, Prachi won the gold medal in the VL2 women’s category at the Asian Para Canoe Qualifiers at the Asian Para Games in Rayong, Thailand, where she ran 200 meters in 01:07.200. In the same year, she won bronze medals in the ICF Canoe Sprint and Paracano World Cup VL2 women’s competition in Poznan, Poland, running 200 meters in 01:04.71.
Prachi Yadav competes in 2022 Para Canoe World Championships
In 2023, she ran 500 meters in 02:38.441 and 02:55.482 at the 3rd Asian Disabled Drag Boat Championships in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, winning gold medals in the KL2 women’s and VL2 women’s categories. Subsequently, she won the silver medal in the KL2 women’s 200m category with a time of 01:00.725 and the gold medal in the VL2 women’s 200m category at the 3rd Asian Para Rowing Championships with a time of 01:11.259. In October 2023, she represented India at the 4th Asian Para Games held in Hangzhou, China, and won a silver medal in the women’s VL2 group and a gold medal in the women’s KL2 group.
The first gold medal of the second day #AsianParaGames! 🥇🇮🇳
our #TOPScheme Athlete @ItzPrachi_ clinched the gold medal for India with a score of 54.962 in the women’s KL2 para-canoe event.This marks her second medal at the World Championships #AsianParaGames2022 🏆🚣🏻♀️
Congratulations to Prachi on this remarkable achievement… pic.twitter.com/i2ZIKRq2Pn
— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) October 24, 2023
Awards and Honors
- On August 29, 2020, the National Sports Day, she received the Vikram Award from the Government of Madhya Pradesh for her performance in Para-Kayaking in various national and international competitions.
- On January 9, 2024, she received the Arjuna Award from the President of India, Drupadi Murmu, for her outstanding performance in para-canoeing.
Prachi Yadav receives Arjuna Award from Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
Facts/Trivia
- Prachi Yadav was a national-level para swimmer before switching to para swimming in 2018 on the advice of swimming coach Virender Kumar Dabas People canoeing.
Prachi’s Instagram post about Para Swimming Championships 2022
She has a disability from the waist down that limits the movement of her lower body. In an interview, talking about the transformation of her career, she said:
Mr. Virender Kumar Dabas from LNIPE, Gwalior asked me to switch to scull rowing as I have long arms. The decision worked. “
- Prachi practiced paracanoeing at Lower Lake in Bhopal, India, and trained under Captain Pijush Kanti Baroi and Captain Mayank Singh Thakur.
Prachi with her coach Mayank Thakur
- The boat Prachi used in the early days of his training was designed by Mayank Thakur, president of the Indian Para Kayak and Canoe Association. It was the first boat specially designed for Indian para kayakers.
- In 2020, she became the first Indian para-athlete to qualify for the Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan.
- Prachi Yadav is one of the many athletes participating in the Target Olympic Podium Program (TOPS).
- She works out regularly at the gym and frequently posts about it on her Instagram account.
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