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    KIWSF 2025: Orphaned by fate, crowned by determination, Odisha’s Rasmita Sahoo strikes gold in canoe
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    KIWSF 2025: Orphaned By Fate, Crowned By Determination, Odisha’s Rasmita Sahoo Strikes Gold In Canoeing

    By IANS News August 22, 2025 • 15:00 PM View: 324
    Khelo India Water Sports Festival: Two road accidents had brought devastation in the life of Odisha’s Rasmita Sahoo, but her gold medal in the women’s 200-metre canoe singles at Khelo India Water Sports Festival 2025 was no accident.

    It was the culmination of years of the hard work that fetched the 23-year-old top honours when she clocked 53.53 seconds, ahead of athletes from Kerala and Madhya Pradesh in Srinagar’s iconic Dal Lake.

    Rasmita, who hails from a fishing community of Choudwar, Cuttack, was just nine years old when her father, a fisherman, met with a motor accident in 2011, leaving him critically injured, and their five-member family without livelihood. Four years later, in 2015, her mother met with a similar road accident, but, unlike Rasmita’s father, she could not battle her injuries and passed away.

    TAGS Rasmita Sahoo Khelo India Water Sports Festival Madhya Pradesh Dal Lake Mahanadi River Sports Authority National Centre Odisha Police Laishram Johanson Singh Asian Games Hirakud Dam
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