This national-level Paralympic swimmer dons many hats

Becoming a sportsperson seemed implausible for 43-year-old Geetha Kannan from Tambaram, arsenic polio struck her astatine conscionable six months old, leaving her paralysed from cervix to toe. “I was amazed myself. How could a wheelchair-bound idiosyncratic adjacent swim?” says Ms. Kannan, who is present a national-level Paralympic swimming medallist with golden and metallic medals to her name.

At the State level, she has bagged 7 golden medals successful Paralympic swimming competitions, and her achievements bash not halt there. She besides won a bronze medal successful changeable enactment astatine a national-level Paralympic athletics competition, on with six metallic and 3 bronze medals successful State-level events. For Ms. Kannan, sports are each astir passion. Professionally, she spent decades arsenic an accountancy teacher.