Global InformationEkta Bhyan information
 Ekta Bhyan at World Para Athletics Championships 2023, Paris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Ekta Bhyan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 June 1985 Hissar, Haryana India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Para-athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Quadriplegic Spinal Cord Injury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | F51 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Club throw Discus throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Paralympic finals | Represented | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ekta Bhyan (born 1985) is a para athlete who represents India in the women's Club and Discus throw events.[1][2] She represented the country at the 2018 Asian Para Games held at Jakarta, Indonesia and won gold medal in the club throw event. She qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, following her second consecutive appearance in the World Para Athletics Championships (London 2017, Dubai 2019). She has also represented India at the World Para Athletics Championships 2023, Paris, and won the Bronze medal at Club Throw. She has also competed and won medals in several IPC Grand Prix held at Berlin in 2016, Dubai in 2017, Tunisia in 2018 and Dubai in 2023. Ekta also won a bronze medal at the Asian Para Games held in Hangzhou, China in the Club Throw event.
Bhyan is the current national champion, having secured gold medal in the 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023 National Para Athletics Championships. She received the National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities in 2018 and the State Award by Honourable Governor of Haryana on Women's Day, 2019.
She is also supported by the GoSports Foundation through the Para Champions Programme and Welspun Corp through their Welspun Super Sport Women Program.
Ekta Bhyan was awarded Sportswoman of the Year at the Sportstar Aces Awards in 2020.
She was ranked World No.2 and Asia No.1 in Club Throw in 2023, and with this feat she was awarded with the Times 40 Under 40 Leaders: Honouring Excellence.
- ^ Akundi, Sweta (16 July 2018). "Gold-winning para-athlete Ekta Bhyan on life and sports". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ "From Being Paralysed To Winning Medals at World Para Athletics GP - Ekta Bhyan Is Full of Heart". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 July 2018.