Bengaluru para-swimmer Niranjan Mukundan has won eight medals including 3 gold medals, at the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports (IWAS) U-23 World Games in Prague, Czech Republic. Mukundan has won gold medals in the 200m freestyle, 50m butterfly and 50m breaststroke, silver in the 100m fly and 50m freestyle, and bronze in the 100m freestyle, 100m breaststroke and 100m backstroke events.
About Niranjan Mukundan
- Born on 4 September 1994 (age 21) in Bangalore, Karnataka.
- He was born with a physical deformity called Spina Bifida and clubbed feet. It is a birth defect where there is incomplete closing of the backbone and membranes around the spinal cord.
- Last year in 2015, He was crowned as the Junior World Champion and also in 2015, he was awarded National Award for Best Sports-person of the Year by Government of India.
- In 2016, he was awarded with Ekalavya Award.
Czech Republic
- Capital: Prague
- Currency: Czech koruna.
- The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe, it shares borders with Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Poland.
- The main official language is Czech. The Slovic language of Slovakia is very similar to Czech and is recognized as a minority language in the country.
- The most popular sports in the Czech Republic are ice hockey, football, sport shooting, tennis, basketball, volleyball, handball, and athletics.
- Tennis greats Martina Navratilova (18 Grand Slams) and Ivan Lendl (8 Grand Slams) are from the Czech Republic.
