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[[File:The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Arjuna Award for the year-2015 to Shri Anup Kumar Yama for Roller Skating, in a glittering ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on August 29, 2015.jpg|thumb|The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Arjuna Award for the year-2015 to Shri Anup Kumar Yama for Roller Skating, in a glittering ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on August 29, 2015]]<br />
'''Anup Kumar Yama''' (born 1 September 1984) is an Indian [[roller skate]] [[athlete]]. He was conferred with Arjuna Award in 2015 by Indian Government (Given for outstanding achievement in National Sports).<br />
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He won two bronze medals<ref>[https://archive.today/20140306140342/http://www.gz2010.cn/info/ENG_ENG/ZB/ZBB101A_RS@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ENG_number=220684.html - Pairs Skating Results]</ref> at the [[2010 Asian Games]] held in [[Guangzhou]], [[China]] in the Men's Single Free Skating and Pairs Skating events with his partner [[Avani Panchal]].<br />
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==Career==<br />
Anup started skating at the age of four and is coached by his father Mr Veeresh Yama, who was a skater himself and is now a judge at the national level. Yama practices at the [[Indira Gandhi]] rink in [[Domalguda]] and has won several national titles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/article284883.ece|title = City boy scripts history on ice}}</ref><br />
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Born on 1 September 1984 in a family of athletes, as a second-generation performer, he is now ranked the first in the world in the ‘Inline Artistic Roller Skating’ category at the recently concluded 2013 58th World Artistic Roller Skating Championship in [[Taiwan]].<br />
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After winning the bronze medal in the 57th World Artistic Roller Skating Championship 2012, which was held in [[New Zealand]], he headed straight to the 15th Asian Roller Skating Championship in [[Hefei, China]]. It was held from 23 to 31 October, and he won three gold medals and two silver medals. This achievement surpassed his previous [[Asian Figure Skating Championships|Asian Championship]] achievement of three gold medals and two bronze medals which was the highest number of medals ever won by a single skater in the Asian Championship Artistic Skating event. He is the record-holder for most medals ever won by an artistic skater in Asia at a single Asian Championship.<br />
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The medals won by Yama at the 15th Asian Roller Skating Championship are as follows:<br />
* One gold medal in Senior Men’s Freestyle Quad Artistic Skating<br />
* One gold medal in Senior Men’s Figure Artistic Skating<br />
* One gold medal in Senior Men’s Combined Artistic Skating<br />
* One silver medal in Men’s Inline Figure Artistic Skating<br />
* One silver medal in Men’s Solo Dance Artistic Skating<br />
His obsession towards this sport and years of work have made him the only Indian to win:<br />
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* 80 gold medals at the district level <br />
* 80 gold medals at the national level <br />
* Eight gold medals, five silver medals and nine bronze medals at the Asian level <br />
* One bronze medal and one gold medal at the world level<br />
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He is the only skater in India to participate in more than 10 World Championships and has a unique distinction of being ranked number one in India, first in [[Asia]] and first in the entire world.<br />
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He visits [[Italy]] every year to fine tune his skating techniques, receiving assistance from international coaches of repute.<br />
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==Achievements==<br />
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===Achievements at the National Level===<br />
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# 1 gold medal in Freestyle Artistic Skating at the All India National Competition, [[Bangalore]], 1989. <br />
# 2 gold medals in Freestyle and Pair Artistic Skating at the National Championship, Patiala-Punjab, 1991.<br />
# 3 gold medals in Freestyle, Figure and Pair Artistic Skating at the National Championship, Patiala-Punjab, 1992.<br />
# 3 gold medals in Freestyle, Figure and Pair Artistic Skating at the National Championship, Trivendrum-Kerala, 1993.<br />
# 3 gold medals in Freestyle, Figure and Pair Artistic Skating at the National Championship, Patiala-Punjab, 1994.<br />
# 1 gold medal, 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal at the National Championship, [[Kolkata]], 1995.<br />
# 1 gold medal in Freestyle Artistic Skating at the National Championship, Patiala-Punjab, 1996.<br />
# 1 silver medal in Freestyle Artistic at the National Championship, [[Pune]], 1997.<br />
# 1 gold medal in Freestyle Artistic at the National Championship, [[Visakhapatnam]], 1998.<br />
# 1 gold medal in Freestyle and Figure Artistic Championship respectively at the National Championship, [[Faridabad]], 2000.<br />
# 2 gold medals for Freestyle and Figure Artistic Championship at the National Championship, Visakhapatnam, 2001.<br />
# 2 gold medals for Freestyle and Figure Artistic Championship at the National Championship, Visakhapatnam, 2002.<br />
# 2 gold medals for Freestyle and Figure and a silver medal in pair skating at the NATIONAL GAMES, 2002.<br />
# 3 gold medals for Freestyle, Figure and Pair Artistic Skating at the National Championship, Faridabad, 2004.<br />
# 2 gold medals for Freestyle and Figure Artistic Skating at the National Championship, Kolkata, 2005.<br />
# 3 gold medals for Freestyle, Figure and Pair Artistic Skating at the National Championship, Visakhapatnam, 2006.<br />
# 4 gold medals for Freestyle, Figure, Pair and Solo Dance Artistic Skating at the National Championship, Visakhapatnam, 2008.<br />
# 5 gold medals for Freestyle, Figure, Pair, Solo Dance and Inline Artistic Skating at the National Championship, Visakhapatnam, 2009.<br />
# 6 gold medals for Freestyle, Figure, Pair, Combined, Solo Dance and Inline Artistic Skating at the National Championship, Visakhapatnam, 2010.<br />
# 7 gold medals for Freestyle, Figure, Pair, Combined, Solo Dance, Pair dance and Inline Artistic Skating at the National Championship, 2011.<br />
# 8 gold medals for Freestyle, Figure, Pair, Combined, Solo Dance, Pair dance, Show Group and Inline Artistic Skating at the National Championship, 2012.<br />
# 7 gold medals for Freestyle, Figure, Pair, Combined, Solo Dance, Pair dance, and Inline Artistic Skating at the National Championship, 2013.<br />
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===Achievements at the Asian Level===<br />
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# Participated in the 8th Asian Roller Skating Championship, 1999. ([[Jinshan District|Jinshan]] - China)<br />
# 1 bronze medal in Freestyle Artistic Skating at the 9th Asian Roller Skating Championship, 2001. ([[Taitung County|Taitung]] -Taiwan)<br />
# 2 bronze medals for Combined and Pair Artistic Skating at the 10th Asian Roller Skating Championship, 2004. ([[Akita Prefecture|Akita]] - Japan)<br />
# 2 bronze medals in Figure and Pair Skating and a silver medal in Combined Artistic Skating at the 11th Asian Roller Skating Championship, 2005. ([[Jeonju]] - Korea)<br />
# 1 gold medal in Pair Skating, 1 silver in Combined and 1 bronze in Freestyle Artistic Skating at the 12th Asian Roller Skating Championship, 2006. ([[Kaohsiung]] -Taiwan)<br />
# 3 gold medals in Quad Freestyle, Inline Freestyle and Combined and 2 bronze medals in Figure and Pair Dance Skating at the 13th Asian Roller Skating Championship, 2008. ([[Haining City|Haining]] -China)<br />
# 1 gold medal in Inline Artistic Skating, 1 silver in Combined and bronze in Pair Artistic Skating at the 14th Asian Roller Skating Championship, 2010. (Kaohsiung -Taiwan)<br />
# 2 bronze medals at the 2010 Asian Games. (Guangzhou - China)<br />
# 3 gold medals in Quad Freestyle, Figure and Combined and 2 silver medals in Inline Freestyle and Solo dance at the 15th Asian Roller Skating Championship, 2012 (Hefei-China)<br />
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===Achievement at the World Level===<br />
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# 1 bronze medal in 2012 Inline Artistic Roller Skating World Championship at New Zealand<br />
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