Tamil Nadu’s Ramesh Shanmugam was a major contributor in their Khelo India Para Games 2025 tally, clinching two gold medals in the men’s 800m T53/54 and men’s 100m T53/54 events respectively.
Shanmugam hails from a ‘tiny and remote’ village in Mannathampatty in Tiruchirappalli district of Tamil Nadu. He has faced plenty of challenges before moving to wheelchair racing from para basketball.
“I have faced a lot of struggles in my life. I need to achieve something. Every day just comes and goes. But I had the desire to make a name for myself. I have to prove myself. I motivate myself every day. Now my parents are very happy. In the first KIPG in 2023, I won the bronze medal, this time I won the gold medal. My family is a big support. Without them, I could not have been a medallist,” he was quoted as saying by the SAI Media.
Shanmugam idolises MS Dhoni, so much, that once the 2011 World Cup winning captain retires he will stop watching cricket.
“Once MS Dhoni retires, I will stop watching cricket,” Ramesh Shanmugam says.
“I used to play cricket back in the day. I used to run fast and also was a wicketkeeper. I have been to several cricket matches as I really enjoy watching the sport, especially our thala MS Dhoni,” Shanmugam said.
Tamil Nadu finished the second day with nine gold out of the 44 on offer. Haryana finished second with 7 medals while Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh followed with 5 medals each.
Khelo India Para Games 2025 Results
ATHLETICS
MENS Discus Throw F11
Gold – Monu Ghangas (Haryana); Silver – Sagar (Haryana); Bronze – Praveen Sharma (Rajasthan)
MEN Shot Put F40/F41
Gold – Ravi Rongali (Andhra Pradesh); Silver – Abhishek (Haryana); Bronze – Manoj Singaraja (Tamil Nadu)
MENS 100m Run T13
Gold – Chaitanya Vijay Pathak (Maharashtra); Silver – Meet Tadhani (Gujarat); Bronze – Kalaram Patel (Chhattisgarh)
MENS 100m Run T35 FINALS
Gold – Vipin (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Jatin Singh (Delhi); Bronze – Ravi Kumar (Uttar Pradesh)
MENS 100m Run T36
Gold – Chirag (Delhi); Silver Arpit Sharma (Madhya Pradesh); Bronze – Haryana.
WOMEN Shot Put F53/F54
Gold – Keerthika Jayachandran (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Kanchan Lakhani (Haryana); Bronze – Geetha Kannan (Tamil Nadu)
Men’s 800 m T53/T54
Gold – Ramesh Shanmugam (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Manikandan Jothi (Tamil Nadu); Bronze – Shailesh Kumar (Tamil Nadu)
MEN Shot Put F40/F41
Gold – Ravi Rongali (Andhra Pradesh); Silver – Abhishek (Haryana); Bronze – Manoj Singaraja (Tamil Nadu)
MENS Shot Put F54
Gold – Sahil Salim Sayyad (Maharashtra); Silver – Imran Rasool (Tamil Nadu); Bronze – Abhishek Chamoli (Delhi)
WOMEN Shot Put F53/F54
Gold – Keerthika Jayachandran (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Kanchan Lakhani (Haryana); Bronze – Geetha Kannan (Tamil Nadu)
MENS Discus Throw F11
Gold – Monu Ghangas (Haryana); Silver – Sagar (Haryana); Bronze – Praveen Sharma (Rajasthan)
MENS 100m T13
Gold – Chaitanya Vijay Pathak (Maharashtra); Silver – Meet Tadhani (Gujarat); Bronze – Kalaram Patel (Chhattisgarh)
MENS 100m T35 FINALS
Gold – Vipin (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Jatin Singh (Delhi); Bronze – Ravi Kumar (Uttar Pradesh)
MENS 100m T36
Gold – Chirag (Delhi); Silver Arpit Sharma (Madhya Pradesh); Bronze – Haryana
WOMEN Shot Put F42/F44/F64:
Gold – Nividitha D H (Karnataka); Silver – Jeewani (Rajasthan); Bronze – Suman (Rajasthan)
WOMENS Shot Put F56
Gold – Siddhi Vikas Kshirsagar (Maharashtra); Silver – Minakshi Harich Jadhav (Maharashtra); Lizzy Velu (Tamil Nadu)
MENS 100m T37
Gold – Rakesh Bhatt (Gujarat); Silver – Navdeep (Haryana); Bronze – Dhawan (Delhi)
MENS 100m T38
Gold – Jeeva Muthuraj (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Anandharaj Murugan (Tamil Nadu); Sharwan Kumar (Rajasthan)
MENS 100m Run T44
Gold – Sandeep (Haryana); Silver – Mit Patel (Gujarat); Bronze – Ranjeet Kumar (Delhi)
MENS Discus Throw F44/F64
Gold – Shubham Dhull (Haryana); Kartik Chahal (Uttar Pradesh); Rakesh (Haryana)
MEN 100 m T53/T54
Gold – Ramesh Shanmugam (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Anil Kumar (Haryana); Bronze – Shailesh Kumar (Bihar)
Women’s Discuss Throw F11
Gold – Nidhi Mishra (Delhi); Silver – Tamanna Sharma (Haryana); Bronze – Komal Tyagi (Madhya Pradesh)
MENS 100m Run T42
Gold – Vivek Sharma (Punjab); Silver – Sandeep Kumar (Uttar Pradesh); Bronze – Jagdish Singh Shahi (Uttarakhand)
MENS 100m Run T64
Gold – Pranav Prashant Desai (Maharashtra); Silver – Rajvir Singh (Himachal Pradesh); Bronze – Rajesh Kumar (Tamil Nadu)
MENS Shot Put F35
Gold – Prasanth Soundervel (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Pradip Gamit (Gujarat); Bronze – Sumit Kumar (Haryana)
WOMENS 100m Run T11
Gold – Ravanni Valasanaini (Andhra Pradesh); Silver – Shirisha Govu (Telangana); Bronze – Shweta Kumari (Delhi)
MENS Shot Put F55
Gold – Muthuraja Karaiyalan (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Harveer Singh (Uttar Pradesh); Bronze – Anmol Vashistha (Uttar Pradesh)
WOMEN 100 m T35/T36/T37/T38
Gold – Bina Mordiya (Gujarat); Silver – Avani (Haryana); Bronze – Babanpreet Kaur (Chandigarh)
WOMEN 100 m T53/T54
Gold – Kiran Shriram Metkar (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Kalaiselvi Elango (Tamil Nadu); Bronze – Geeta Panalal Chouhan (Maharashtra)
WOMENS 100m Run T47
Gold – Jayanti Behera (Odisha); Silver – Bhavani Valasamgari (Andhra Pradesh); Bronze – Nishu (Punjab)
WOMENS Discus Throw F37/F38
Gold – Lakshmi (Haryana); Silver – Priyanka (Rajasthan); Bronze – Varshaben Chaudhary (Gujarat)
WOMENS 100m Run T44
Gold – Ritika Pal (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Bhavani K Munniyandi (Andaman & Nicobar); Bronze – Nirmala (Rajasthan)
WOMENS 100m Run T42
Gold -Sobhagya Shree (Rajasthan); Silver – Pinki Kumari (Rajasthan); Bronze – Pooja (Haryana)
WOMENS Discus Throw F40
Gold – Akutai Sitaram Ulbhagat (Maharashtra); Silver – Choti Mehra (Chhattisgarh); Bronze – Pandi Meena Sonaimuthu (Tamil Nadu)
MENS 100m Run T12
Gold – Abhishek C (Karnataka); Silver – Chirag Tyagi (Uttar Pradesh); Bronze – Sujith MS (Delhi)
MENS 100m Run T11
Gold – Pragadeeshwara Raja (Tamil Nadu); Swaraj Ambati (Andhra Pradesh); Raman Jee (Delhi)
WOMEN 100 m T12/T13
Gold – Sakshi Kale (Goa); Silver – Janaki Oram (Odisha); Bronze – Sidra Muskan (Delhi)
-BADMINTON
Krishna Nagar defeated Mahesh 21-3, 21-6 in the quarter-final stage in MS SH 6
Mandeep Kaur defeated Sanjana Kumari 21-12, 21-18 in the semi-final in WS SL 3
Arati Janoba Patil defeated Latika 21-17, 21-12 in the semi-final in WS SU 5
Palak Kohli won against Shivangi Pandey 21-1, 21-2 in the semi-final in WS SL 4
Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan defeated Latatai Parmeshwar Umrekar 21-6, 21-4 in the semi-final in WS SH6
Nitesh Kumar defeated Umesh Vikram Kumar 21-9, 21-14 in the semi-final in MS SL 3
MENS Discus Throw F11
Sanjeev Kumar defeated Manjunatha Chikkaiah 21-13, 21-6 in the quarterfinal in MS WH 2.
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