 Patel in August 2022 | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Sonalben Manubhai Patel | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 September 1987 Viramgam, Gujarat, India | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Ramesh Chaudhary | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country |  India | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Para Table Tennis C3 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sonalben Manubhai Patel is an international Para table tennis player and Asian medalist from Viramgam, Gujarat, India.
She is participating in wheelchair class 3 para table tennis. She is making her Paralympic debut in Tokyo Paralympic 2020. [1] [2]
Ms. Lakhia from Blind People's Association, Ahmedabad encouraged her to take up Table Tennis and she soon began to train professionally under the guidance of her coach Nilay Vyas In the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, she won the bronze medal in the women's singles by defeating England's Sue Bailey. [3]
She was diagnosed with polio when she was 6 months old, which later affected both her legs and right hand and left her with 90% disability. [4]
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