Sonalben Patel
 Patel in August 2022 | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Sonalben Manubhai Patel | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 September 1987 Viramgam, Gujarat, India | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Ramesh Chaudhary | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  India | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Para Table Tennis C3 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sonalben Manubhai Patel is an international Para table tennis player and Asian medalist from Viramgam, Gujarat, India.
Career[edit]
She is participating in wheelchair class 3 para table tennis. She is making her Paralympic debut in Tokyo Paralympic 2020.[1][2]
Ms. Lakhia from Blind People's Association, Ahmedabad encouraged her to take up Table Tennis and she soon began to train professionally under the guidance of her coach Nilay Vyas In the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, she won the bronze medal in the women's singles by defeating England's Sue Bailey.[3]
Personal life[edit]
She was diagnosed with polio when she was 6 months old, which later affected both her legs and right hand and left her with 90% disability.[4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Tokyo Paralympics, table tennis: Bhavinaben and Sonalben Patel go down in opening round matches". Scroll.in. Press Trust of India. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ admin; newstesla (25 August 2021). "Tokyo Paralympics: Paddler Sonalben Patel loses her Group D opener | Tokyo Olympics News - Times of India | NewsTesla". newstesla.com. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "CWG 2022: Sonalben Patel clinches bronze in Para Table Tennis women's singles". ThePrint. 7 August 2022.
- ^ Polio couldn't stop her, Gujarat's Sonalben Patel is India's Paralympic hope | The Bridge, retrieved 26 August 2021
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- 1987 births
- Indian female table tennis players
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- People from Ahmedabad district
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic table tennis players for India
- Table tennis players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Para Games
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