Despite odds, Telangana’s Kotturi Pranay wins Gold in High Jump
By Anurag Mallick Published on 26 Nov 2019 2:06 PM GMT
Hyderabad: Telangana’s 14-year-old Kotturi Pranay from Nakkalapalli, a remote village in Mancherial district, has set an example of overcoming odds. He won a gold medal in High Jump at the National Inter-District Athletic Championship held in Tirupathi on Monday.
Hailing from a financially weak background, his parents work as labourers in agricultural fields. However, none of his difficulties stopped Pranay from reaching where he wanted to in the athletics. He proved that by winning gold in the event in the under-14 category.
The secretary of Telangana Social welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society, Dr RS Praveen Kumar was satisfied with the result. He said, “It’s immensely satisfying to see hundreds of students from social and tribal welfare residential educational institutions competing at international and national level sports events in a multitude of disciplines.”
He also thanked the Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao and Social Welfare Minister Koppula Eshwar for their support. “They helped establish exclusive sports academies to groom students from impoverished families into finest sportsmen and women,” Praveen further said.
