Are you a fan of Devendra Jhajharia? Searching for the queries like How to contact him? What is the phone number or email id of Devendra Jhajharia? What is the office or residence address of Devendra Jhajharia? Is Devendra Jhajharia available on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? Check out this article for the available answers. Devendra Jhajharia was born on 10th June 1981 age 36 years in Rajasthan. In his childhood, he lost his left hand working as at the age of eight, while climbing a tree he touched a live electric cable, many medical attention was given to him but no result came out. Devendra was spotted by Dronacharya Awardee coach R. D. Singh where he was competing at a school sports day, in 1997. Devendra is married to Manju, she is a former nationally ranked Kabaddi player, the couple has two children named Jiya and Kavyan. He is an F46 Javelin Throw player and represented India in 2016 Paralympic games and won the Gold Medal for India, earlier in 2004 also he won the Gold Medal for India. Represented India in IPC World Championship in 2013 and won Gold Medal for India, and won Silver Medal for India in 2015. During Asia Para Games Devendra won the silver medal for India, all the medals he won are for Javelin- F46. He has been awarded many prestigious awards such as, in 2004 Jhanjharia won Arjuna Award, then in the year 2012 was honoured with Padma Shri award, in the year 2014 FICCI honoured him with Para-Sportsperson of the Year Award, and in 2016 he was awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
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