FULL NAME: Bhaktaram Desti
GENDER: Male
BORN: 14th June, 2002 (Official date)
PARENTS: Sadan Desti (Father), (Mother)
HOME ADDRESS: Village- RSC-4, PS- Chitrakonda, Dist- Malkangiri, State- Odisha, Country- India.
EDUCATION: Studied at Municipal Barracks High School, Berhampur.
HOME CLUB/ACADEMY: Govt Sports Hostel, Berhampur.
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Sachindra Majhi and Sita Jena

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:

NATIONAL:
*     Won the Gold medal with new clean & jerk National Record in U-17 boys 49kg class of the 2nd Khelo India Youth Games at Pune on Jan 9, 2019.
*     Won the gold medal in boys 50kg category with a total lift of 176kg (snatch 77kg, clean & jerk 99kg) in the 1st Khelo India School Games, held in Delhi from Jan 31 to Feb 8, 2018.
*     Represented Odisha in the 11th Youth, 52nd Junior Men and 28th Junior Women National Weightlifting Championships, held at Patna (Bihar) from February 22 to 26, 2016.
*     Won gold medal in 50kg class of the School National Games in 2016.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     His father is a small-timed farmer and feeds his family by cultivating paddy.
*     Joined Berhampur Sports Hostel in 2013.
*     Started learning weightlifting under the guidance of coach Sachindra Majhi.
*     Came under the tutelage of Sita Jena in 2015.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 1 March, 2016
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 4 July, 2019