K. Y. Venkatesh

Indian para-athlete

K. Y. Venkatesh

Personal information

Nationality| Indian
Born| Bengaluru, India
Occupation| Para-athlete
Height| 127 cm (4 ft 2 in)
Sport
Country|  India
Disability| Yes

K. Y. Venkatesh is an Indian para-athlete and shot putter from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.[1][2][3] He won his first gold for India in the shot put in 1999 in Australia. In 1994, he represented India at the 1st International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships in Berlin, Germany. He was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2021.[4][5]

Venkatesh also holds a Limca Book of Records.[6] He made a world record when he secured six medals in various sports at the fourth World Dwarf Games in 2005.[citation needed]

K. Y. Venkatesh won a silver medal for Badminton at the LG World Cup 2002 and 3 gold and 2 silver medals in shot put, discus throw and javelin throw at the Open Track and Field Championship 2004. He also won one gold medal, two silver medals and one bronze medal at the 2004 Swedish Open Track & Field Championship.[citation needed]

He bagged a gold medal in the hockey event, silver medals in football and basketball events and a bronze medal in the badminton event at the 2006 European Open Championships. He has also served as the Secretary of the Karnataka Para-Badminton Association for the Disabled.[7] Venkatesh is suffering from Achondroplasia and his height is 4 ft 2 inch.[citation needed]

## Achievements

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* Won a bronze medal at the 2012 Spanish Para-Badminton Tournament
* Won a gold medal in the discus throw and bronze medals in the javelin throw, badminton singles and doubles events of the 2009 World Dwarf Games
* Won bronze and gold medals at the badminton singles and doubles events of the 2008 Asian Paralympic Cup
* Won a gold medal in the hockey event, silver medals in football and basketball events and a bronze medal in the badminton event of the 2006 European Open Championships
* Won a gold medal in the discus throw and bronze medal in shot put, volleyball and badminton events of the 2005 Dwarf Olympics
* Won a silver medal at the 2004 Israel Open Badminton Championship
* Won 3 gold and 2 silver medals in shot put, discus throw and javelin throw at the 2004 Open Track and Field Championship
* Won a gold medal, 2 silver medals and a bronze medal at the 2004 Swedish Open Track & Field Championship
* Won a silver medal for India in the badminton event of the 2002 LG World Cup
* Won a gold medal in the shot put event at the 1999 Southern Cross Multi Disability Championship
* He is also the recipient of the Ekalavya and Karnataka Rajyotsava awards.

## Awards and recognition

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On 26 January 2021, the Government of India conferred him India's fourth-highest civilian award the Padma Shri.[4]

## References

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1. ^ Singh, Tanaya (26 February 2016). "A Man with Dwarfism Heard about a Woman with Polio Crossing the English Channel. Then He Did This". The Better India.
2. ^ Dutta, Sudeshna (23 January 2021). "Malleswaram Mirror Special: An extraordinary life". Bangalore Mirror. The Times of India.
3. ^ Chatterjee, Soumya (15 October 2017). "Make Bengaluru disabled friendly: A para-athlete's passionate plea at city's Beku Beda Santhe". The News Minute.
4. ^ a b Poovanna, Sharan (26 January 2021). "Athlete gets Padma award for showing the way, promoting para-sports". Hindustan Times.
5. ^ "Padma Shri for para warrior Venkatesh". The Times of India. 27 January 2021.
6. ^ "World Dwarf Games". coca-colaindia.com. 2017.
7. ^ Chatterjee, Sayan (26 January 2021). "Para-athlete and Limca Record holder K.Y. Venkatesh awarded Padma Shri". The Bridge.

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Recipients of Padma Shri in Sports

1950s|

* Balbir Singh Sr. (1957)
* K. D. Singh (1958)
* Mihir Sen (1959)
* Milkha Singh (1959)

1960s|

* Vijay Hazare (1960)
* Jasu Patel (1960)
* Arati Saha (1960)
* Nari Contractor (1962)
* Sonam Gyatso (1962)
* Ramanathan Krishnan (1962)
* Gostha Pal (1962)
* Polly Umrigar (1962)
* Syed Mushtaq Ali (1963)
* M. J. Gopalan (1964)
* Nawang Gombu (1964)
* Charanjit Singh (1964)
* H. P. S. Ahluwalia (1965)
* Avtar Singh Cheema (1965)
* D. B. Deodhar (1965)
* Phu Dorjee (1965)
* Wilson Jones (1965)
* Verghese Kurien (1965)
* Harish Chandra Singh Rawat (1965)
* Chandra Prakash Vohra (1965)
* Sonam Wangyal (1965)
* Kishan Lal (1966)
* Narendra Kumar (1965)
* Shankar Lakshman (1967)
* Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1967)
* Gurdial Singh (1967)
* Prithipal Singh (1967)
* Chandu Borde (1969)

1970s|

* Bishan Singh Bedi (1970)
* Moin-ul-Haq (1970)
* E. A. S. Prasanna (1970)
* Leslie Claudius (1971)
* Sailen Manna (1971)
* Ghaus Mohammad (1971)
* Chandgi Ram (1971)
* Kamaljeet Sandhu (1971)
* Gundappa Viswanath (1971)
* Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna (1972)
* B. S. Chandrasekhar (1972)
* Ajit Wadekar (1972)
* Farokh Engineer (1973)
* Pankaj Roy (1975)
* Roshan Lal Anand (1976)
* Meena Shah (1977)

1980s|

* Vasudevan Baskaran (1981)
* Syed Kirmani (1982)
* Kapil Dev (1982)
* Prakash Padukone (1982)
* Vijay Amritraj (1983)
* Bahadur Singh Chauhan (1983)
* Guru Hanuman (1983)
* Eliza Nelson (1983)
* Chand Ram (1983)
* Kaur Singh (1983)
* Raghubir Singh (1983)
* Satpal Singh (1983)
* M. D. Valsamma (1983)
* Geeta Zutshi (1983)
* Charles Borromeo (1984)
* Phu Dorjee (1984)
* Chuni Goswami (1984)
* D. K. Khullar (1984)
* Bachendri Pal (1984)
* Omprakesh Agrawal (1985)
* P. T. Usha (1985)
* Anupama Gokhale (1986)
* Swaroop Kishen (1986)
* Geet Sethi (1986)
* Mohammad Shahid (1986)
* Bhagyashree Thipsay (1987)
* Dilip Vengsarkar (1987)
* Viswanathan Anand (1988)
* Mohammad Azharuddin (1988)

1990s|

* Chandraprabha Aitwal (1990)
* P. K. Banerjee (1990)
* Premchand Degra (1990)
* Gulshan Rai (1990)
* Jaman Lal Sharma (1990)
* Taranath Narayan Shenoy (1990)
* Selma D'Silva (1991)
* Aspy Adajania (1992)
* Ajit Pal Singh (1992)
* Sriram Singh (1992)
* Hakam Singh (1992)
* Shiny Abraham (1998)
* Ramesh Krishnan (1998)
* Lila Ram (1998)
* Pargat Singh (1998)
* Karnam Malleswari (1999)
* Sachin Tendulkar (1999)

2000s|

* Santosh Yadav (2000)
* Mahesh Bhupathi (2001)
* Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla (2001)
* Bhuvneshwari Kumari (2001)
* Leander Paes (2001)
* Dhanraj Pillay (2001)
* Sunita Rani (2001)
* Diana Edulji (2002)
* Jaspal Rana (2002)
* Mukesh Kumar (2003)
* Gopal Purushottam Phadke (2003)
* Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal (2003)
* Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (2003)
* Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (2003)
* K. M. Beenamol (2004)
* Gurmayum Anita Devi (2004)
* Rahul Dravid (2004)
* Sourav Ganguly (2004)
* Anju Bobby George (2004)
* S. P. Nimbalkar (2004)
* Dilip Tirkey (2004)
* Pullela Gopichand (2005)
* Anil Kumble (2005)
* Gurbachan Singh Randhawa (2005)
* Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2005)
* Rachel Thomas (2005)
* Madhumita Bisht (2006)
* Mohan Singh Gunjyal (2006)
* Mary Kom (2006)
* Sania Mirza (2006)
* Bahadur Singh Sagoo (2006)
* Koneru Humpy (2007)
* Jeev Milkha Singh (2007)
* Bhaichung Bhutia (2008)
* Bula Choudhury (2008)
* Pankaj Advani (2009)
* MS Dhoni (2009)
* Balbir Singh Kullar (2009)
* Harbhajan Singh (2009)

2010s|

* Ramakant Achrekar (2010)
* Narain Karthikeyan (2010)
* Saina Nehwal (2010)
* Virender Sehwag (2010)
* Vijender Singh (2010)
* Ignace Tirkey (2010)
* Kunjarani Devi (2011)
* Sushil Kumar (2011)
* VVS Laxman (2011)
* Shital Mahajan (2011)
* Gagan Narang (2011)
* Krishna Poonia (2011)
* Harbhajan Singh (mountaineer) (2011)
* S. M. Arif (2012)
* Ravi Chaturvedi (2012)
* Jhulan Goswami (2012)
* Zafar Iqbal (field hockey) (2012)
* Devendra Jhajharia (2012)
* Limba Ram (2012)
* Prabhakar Vaidya (2012)
* Premlata Agrawal (2013)
* Yogeshwar Dutt (2013)
* Vijay Kumar (2013)
* Girisha Nagarajegowda (2013)
* Dingko Singh (2013)
* Bajrang Lal Takhar (2013)
* Anjum Chopra (2014)
* Sunil Dabas (2014)
* Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu (2014)
* Dipika Pallikal (2014)
* H. Boniface Prabhu (2014)
* Yuvraj Singh (2014)
* Mamta Sodha (2014)
* Saba Anjum Karim (2015)
* Mithali Raj (2015)
* P. V. Sindhu (2015)
* Sardara Singh (2015)
* Arunima Sinha (2015)
* Sushil Doshi (2016)
* Deepika Kumari (2016)
* Vikas Gowda (2017)
* Dipa Karmakar (2017)
* Virat Kohli (2017)
* Deepa Malik (2017)
* Sakshi Malik (2017)
* Shekhar Naik (2017)
* P. R. Sreejesh (2017)
* Mariyappan Thangavelu (2017)
* Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (2018)
* Somdev Devvarman (2018)
* Murlikant Petkar (2018)
* Srikanth Kidambi (2018)
* Sunil Chhetri (2019)
* Harika Dronavalli (2019)
* Gautam Gambhir (2019)
* Sharath Kamal (2019)
* Bombayla Devi Laishram (2019)
* Bajrang Punia (2019)
* Prashanti Singh (2019)
* Ajay Thakur (2019)

2020s|

* Oinam Bembem Devi (2020)
* M. P. Ganesh (2020)
* Zaheer Khan (2020)
* Jitu Rai (2020)
* Tarundeep Rai (2020)
* Rani Rampal (2020)
* Anitha Pauldurai (2021)
* Anshu Jamsenpa (2021)
* Mouma Das (2021)
* Sudha Singh (2021)
* Virender Singh (2021)
* K. Y. Venkatesh (2021)
* Sumit Antil (2022)
* Pramod Bhagat (2022)
* Neeraj Chopra (2022)
* Sankaranarayana Menon (2022)
* Faisal Ali Dar (2022)
* Vandana Katariya (2022)
* Avani Lekhara (2022)
* Brahmanand Sankhwalkar (2022)
* S. R. D. Prasad (2023)
* K. Shanathoiba Sharma (2023)
* Gurcharan Singh (2023)
* Joshna Chinappa (2024)
* Rohan Bopanna (2024)
* Purnima Mahato (2024)
* Harbinder Singh (2024)
* Satendra Singh Lohiya (2024)
* Gaurav Khanna (2024)
* Uday Vishwanath Deshpande (2024)
* Harvinder Singh (2025)
* I. M. Vijayan (2025)
* Ravichandran Ashwin (2025)
* Satyapal Singh (2025)

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