Profile details
- Born
- 2 Jul 1983
- Birthplace
- Hassan
- State listed
- Karnataka
- Country
- India
- Height
- 175 cm
- Plays
- Right-handed
- Sport
- Para Badminton
- Discipline
- Para
- Category
- Men
- Status
- Active
District, weight, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
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Honours & Awards
- ▸Arjuna Award
Competition Appearances
1 recorded appearance, most significant first.
- ·badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – men's singles SL4
Career Timeline
- 2020Competed at badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – men's singles SL4
Statistics
About
Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj (born 2 July 1983) is an Indian para-badminton player and IAS officer who is currently ranked World No. 1 in men's singles and has won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 games thus becoming the only Indian para-badminton player to win back to back medals at the Games. Yathiraj is also an IAS officer of the 2007 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre, and has served as District Magistrate of Gautam Buddha Nagar & Prayagraj.
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Biography adapted from Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Snapshot taken — where the text describes a role or a club in the present tense, read it as of that date.
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