BELGAUM:

Nineteen-year-old  Atish Anil Jadhav from Belgaum has been selected for the Special Olympic World Summer Games  (SOWSG), to be held in Athens (Greece) from June 22-July 4. He is one among six players selected from India,, and the only one from Karnataka.

Atish will compete in the 50 meters butterfly and 400 meters freestyle event. The Indian team will undergo a pre-Olympic training camp in New Delhi from June 9-19 and will leave for Athens on June 20.

Atish is studying in Bodhini, a school for slow learners. He took to swimming in 2004, and has participated in five national swimming championships for the disabled and underprivileged. He is supported by LEAD – the Society for Development of Disabled and Underprivileged.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / TNN/ Jun 06th, 2011