FULL NAME: Rohit Hembram
GENDER: Male
BORN: 6 November 2003 (Source: Cycling Federation of India)
PARENTS: Father (Luthar Hembram), Mother (Basanti Hembram)
HOME ADDRESS: Amajharan, Lathikata, Sundargarh, Odisha, India
ACADEMIC EDUCATION: Studied BA at at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), Bhubaneswar. Earlier studied at Hamirpur High School, Rourkela.
PROFESSION: Not known
HOME CLUB/ACADEMY: Rourkela Steel Plant Cycling Academy
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Susil Kumar Das
TEAMS/UNITS REPRESENTED: Rourkela Steel Plant and Odisha State

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:
*     Won 2 Silver medals (one each in elite men individual time trial and mass start events) at the 41st Odisha State Road Cycling Championship, held at Dhabaleswar Madhusudanpur Bridge, Cuttack on 28-29 Oct 2024.
*     Won the Gold medal and a cash prize of Rs 20,000 in the 151km-long 4th Golden Triangle Cycling Championship on 13 February 2022.
*     Won the Gold medal and a cash prize of Rs 20,000 in the 151km-long 3rd Golden Triangle Cycling Championship on 14 February 2021.
*     Won the Gold medal and a cash prize of Rs 20,000 in the 151km-long 2nd Golden Triangle Cycling Championship on 13 February 2020.
*     Won two Gold medals in the 39th State cycling championship at Sundargrah.
*     Secured 1st position in the State Level Khelo India Cycling Competition in May, 2020.
*     Secured 1st position in the 51km mass start event, held in Bhubaneswar on 6 May, 2020.
*     Secured 1st position in the 7.8km road race in Cuttack on 20 May, 2020.

NATIONAL:
*     Secured 6th position in 10km stracth event at the Junior Men National Track Cycling Championship at Usmania University in Hyderabad on 27 March, 2021.
*     Secured 10th position in the National Road Cycling Championship in Aligarh in 2016.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     Took up competitive cycling in June 2016.
*     Played football before a hand-injury in 2015 forced him to quit the sport.
*     Rourkela Sports Association has been providing him a monthly stipend of Rs 1,000.
*     Puri Cycling Association Secretary Sabyasachi Das gifted him a sports bicycle.
*     He is believed to be the first tribal sports cyclist of Odisha.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 2 April 2021
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 31 October 2024