Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj
Indian para-badminton player (born 1983)
Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj
Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj (born 2 July 1983) is an Indian para-badminton player and IAS officer who is currently ranked World No. 1 in men's singles and has won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 games thus becoming the only Indian para-badminton player to win back to back medals at the Games. Yathiraj is also an IAS officer of the 2007 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre, and has served as District Magistrate of Gautam Buddha Nagar & Prayagraj. He won the gold medal at the National Para Badminton Championships in 2018. He is also an engineer who graduated from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal. He is the only IAS officer in India to win a Paralympic medal and an Arjuna Award. At the 2016 Asian Para Badminton Championships, Beijing, China, he became the first Indian bureaucrat to win a professional International Badminton Championship. He won gold beating Hary Susanto of Indonesia in the finals when he was serving as District Magistrate of Azamgarh. He came to International...
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