FULL NAME: Sarita Routray
GENDER: Female
BORN: Date not known
HOME ADDRESS: Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Student of Open Learning System, Bhubaneswar.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

NATIONAL:
*     Put up eye-catching performances in National championships.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Selected to represent India in floor hockey event of the Special Olympics World Winter Games, scheduled to be held in Austria from March 14 to 25, 2017.
*     Won one gold medal in unified beach volleyball event of the Special Olympics World Summer Games, held in Los Angeles, USA from July 22 to August 2, 2015.

OTHER NOTABLE INFORMATION:
*     She was felicitated by Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi in an event organised by Parichay Foundation in Bhubaneswar on March 6, 2017.
*     Sarita was nine years old when she was admitted in the Centre of Special Education for Children with Multiple Disabilities of Open Learning Systems (OLS), Bhubaneswar.
*     Sarita was assessed with mild intellectual disability and hearing impairment and hence put in the functional academy of OLS, where she could learn to read and write.
*     After a few months Sarita was admitted in Class II in the nearby general school, but she discontinued going there after a couple of years came back to OLS where she started learning Odissi dance and tailoring etc.
*     Her special talent in sports was identified by the CEO of OLS, Prakash K Rath, who is also the Area Director of Special Olympics Bharat-Odisha and she was sent to participate in various competitions organised by Special Olympics Bharat.
*     Her talent in cycling was honed by her coach, mentor and confidante, Arpita Mohapatra, an SOB National Trainer and Limca Book of Records holder in Mountain Biking.
*     SOB-Odisha sent Sarita along with her coach to the Tata Sports Academy in Jamshedpur for training under the expert guidance of nine-time National cycling champion Satbir Singh Sahota.
*     Sarita has also shown her prowess in floorball and floor hockey.
*     Satita`s father is a person with hearing impairment and earns a paltry sum as a house painting worker.
*     Her mother has opened a small grocery store in their temporary house in a slum in Bhubaneswar to augment the family income.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: July 20, 2015
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: March 7, 2017