FULL NAME: Dinesh Kumar
GENDER: Male
DATE OF BIRTH: 30 January 2000 (Source: Cycling Federation of India)
PARENTS: Father (Mahendra Patel), Mother (Shobha Devi)
HOME ADDRESS: Basanti Coloby, Rourkela, Odisha, India
ACADEMIC EDUCATION: Not known
PROFESSION: Employee of Indian Air Force
HOME CLUB/ACADEMY: Not known
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Sushil Kumar Das
TEAMS/UNITS REPRESENTED: Odisha, India

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

NATIONAL:
*     Won the Bronze medal for Services in the in mens elite 40km individual time trial event of the 27th National Road Cycling Championship, held in Shirdi, Maharashtra from 7-10 January 2023.
*     Won one Gold and two Silver medals in the 74th Senior National Track Cycling Championship, held in Guwahati, Assam from 11-15 December 2022.
*     Won 3 Gold medals for Services (SSCB) in 4000m individual pursuit, team pursuit and omnium events of the 36th National Games in Delhi on 1, 2 and 4 October 2022.
*     Won the Gold medal in U-21 boys time trial event of the 3rd Khelo India Youth Games in Guwahati, Assam on 12 January, 2020.
*     Participated in the National Track Championships in Kerala in 2015.
*     Participated in the 68th National Junior Cycling Championship in Ludhiana in 2015.
*     Participated in the 67th National Junior Cycling Championship in Kerala in 2014

INTERNATIONAL:
*     He was part of Indian team that won the Bronze medal in elite men 4km team pursuit event of the 41st Senior Asian Track Cycling Championship at Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in New Delhi on 18 June 2022.
*     He was part of the Indian team that won Gold medal in team pursuit (senior) event of the Track Asia Cup held in Cycling Velodrome at the Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi on 10 October, 2017.

MISCELLANEOUS:
*     Won the second runner-up prize of Rs 80,000 in men 55 km professional race of the HCL Cyclothon in Noida, Uttar Pradesh on 17 March 2024.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     On 4 July 2022, Odisha Government felicitated her with cash award of Rs 2 lakhs in a function at Kalinga Hockey Stadium, Bhubaneswar for winning Asian Track Cycling Championship bronze medal in June 2022.
*     He is a trainee of SAI Cycling Academy, Delhi.
*     In 2017 he was picked up by the Indian Air Force and he has been practicing at the NIAS, Patiala since then.
*     Son of a small time shop-keeper, Dinesh often helped his father during his childhood in Rourkela.
*     Stayed at the house of his maternal grandfather, who is a fruit seller in Rourkela.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 17 January 2020
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 19 March 2024