Deepthi Jeevanji smashes world record at World Para Championships

"She would not express anything. It can't be that she would not feel the pain after training so hard but she was not able to express it. My other trainees would be tired, they would grimace. Deepthi would be quiet. It was not normal," says Ramesh, who has coached Dutee Chand.

Ramesh took Deepthi to the National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Secunderabad in 2016 and found that her intelligence level was very low. She was intellectually impaired. Deepthi then started competing in para sport and has never looked back.

On Monday, she blazed to 400m sprint (T20) gold at the World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe with a world record timing of 55.07s. It also helped her qualify for the Paris Paralympics. Deepthi became the first Indian to win gold in track in world para championships.