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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Bihar vegetable seller's son wins Commonwealth Games bronze: Meet Jhandu Kumar, who drove an e-rickshaw to fund his training & turned years of taunts over his name into triumph

For years, people laughed at his name. They doubted his future after polio left him disabled and watched him drive an e-rickshaw to fund his training.

On Friday, those doubts were replaced by applause as Jhandu Kumar, the son of vegetable sellers from Bihar, won India's first medal at the Commonwealth Games by claiming bronze in the men's heavyweight para powerlifting event.

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