Para Athlete Jayanti Behera Selected for Biju Patnaik Sports Award | News Room Odisha

Para Athlete Jayanti Behera Selected for Biju Patnaik Sports Award

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government will confer the prestigious Biju Patnaik Sports Award to para athlete Jayanti Behera for her outstanding performance in Sports and Games for the year 2019.

The award will be given to her during a function at Lok Seva Bhawan at 5 PM on August 29, 2020, on the eve of the National Sports Day, said Sports Secretary Vishal Kumar Dev.

Jayanti Behera, who hails from Sakhigopal, brought laurels to the State by winning silver and bronze medals during the Asian Para Games, Indonesia in 2018.

She also participated in World Para Athletics Championships, Dubai in 2019.

Some of her achievements are as follow:

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