ARUNA

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
3	Women's K43 -49kg W	2019	Antalya, TUR

Student

Physical Education - Chandigarh University, India

English, Hindi

Ashok Kumar

She competed in able-bodied taekwondo at junior national level in India. (indianexpress.com, 10 Jun 2021)

She took up taekwondo at age eight and competed in able-bodied events until 2017. At that point she was deemed ineligible to continue due to her impairment. She switched to Para taekwondo in the same year. "I always believed that I could compete against anybody. It was only when I was declared ineligible to compete at international level that I opted to compete in the Paralympic category." (thebridge.in, 19 Aug 2021; timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 28 Jun 2021; theprint.in, 15 Jun 2021)

She was introduced to taekwondo after opting for mixed martial arts when coach Robin Singh visited her school for a training camp. "Since childhood, I have been a big fan of martial arts." (thebridge.in, 19 Aug 2021; republicworld.com, 12 Jun 2021)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 28 Jun 2021)

She trains for up to eight hours a day. (news.cuchd.in, 28 Apr 2021)

Winning silver at the 2018 Asian Championships in Vietnam, and claiming bronze at the 2019 World Championships in Turkey. (thebridge.in, 19 Aug 2021)

Indian boxer Paramjeet Samota. (hindustantimes.com, 11 Jun 2021)

Her parents. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 28 Jun 2021)

"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it." (Facebook page, 24 May 2020)