9/11/2016: FRONT PAGE: Vegetable seller’s son from TN high-jumps to para gold in Rio

Posted on 11 September 2016. Tags: 9/11/2016, from, Front, Gold, highjumps, PAGE, para, seller’s, Vegetable

Chennai: With one high jump, Thangavelu Mariyappan clinched a gold in Rio on Friday and became the toast of a medal-starved nation. The 21-year-old para-athlete, who’s been raised by a single mom who sold vegetables and worked as a daily wage…
The Times of India (New Delhi edition)