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'''Kanchan Lakhani''' (born 13 March 1984) is an Indian para athlete from [[Faridabad]], [[Haryana]]. She qualified to represent [[India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics]] at [[Paris]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sportstar |first=Team |date=2024-08-14 |title=India at Paris Paralympics 2024: Complete list of 84 athletes at Paralympic Games |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/olympics/paris-paralympics-2024/news/paris-2024-india-paralympics-contingent-full-list-of-84-indian-athletes-qualified-sports-ministry-paralympic-games-news/article68512627.ece |access-date=2024-08-17 |website=Sportstar |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-14 |title=Paralympics 2024: India to send their biggest ever contingent to Paris |url=https://thebridge.in/para-sports/india-biggest-contingent-paris-paralympics-49084 |access-date=2024-08-17 |website=thebridge.in |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-16 |title=India name Bhagyashree Jadhav and Sumit Antil as flag bearers for Paralympics |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/other-sports/story/paris-paralympics-india-bhagyashree-jadhav-sumit-antil-flag-bearer-2583153-2024-08-16 |access-date=2024-08-17 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref> With a personal best of 10.06m, she finished 7th in the women's discus throw F53 category at the Paralympics.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-19 |title=Australian medal-winning cyclist defects to Britain |url=https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/40916689/olympic-medal-winning-cyclist-joins-team-gb-australia |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=ESPN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Paris Paralympics 2024: Full List Of Indian Athletes - All You Need To Know {{!}} Olympics News |url=https://sports.ndtv.com/paralympic-games-2024/paris-paralympics-2024-full-list-of-indian-athletes-all-you-need-to-know-6361848 |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=NDTVSports.com |language=en}}</ref> She is ranked 3rd in the World Para Athletics Rankings 2024 in the F53 javelin throw for women.<ref>https://db.ipc-services.org/sdms/web/ranking/at/pdf/type/WR/list/1058/category/out/gender/W/evt/JAV/class/F53</ref> She is also ranked World 7th in discus throw.<ref>https://db.ipc-services.org/sdms/web/ranking/at/pdf/type/WR/list/1058/category/out/gender/W/evt/DIS/class/F53</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Lakhani is from Faridabad, Haryana. Her father Manohar Lal, mother Pushpa, and brothers Sunil and Kamal, supported her. She did her schooling at K L Mehta Dayanand Senior Secondary School. She met with a train accident on 4 September 2008 and lost her hand. She was also paralysed from waist below due to the injury to spinal cord.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=जिंदगी से नहीं मानी हार, यूं बनीं पैरा ऐथलीट चैंपियन |url=https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/punjab-and-haryana/faridabad/the-story-of-para-athlete-kanchan/articleshow/63364750.cms |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Navbharat Times |language=hi}}</ref> In 2016, she met coach Narsi Ram at Raja [[Nahar Singh Stadium]] and he convinced her to take up athletics and trained her in throws.

== Career ==
In 2022, Lakhani took part in the World Para Grand Prix Athletics Championships in Tunisia. In 2021, she won gold medals in javelin and discus and a silver in [[shot put]] at the third Indian Open National Para Athlete Championships at Bangalore.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Faridabad News: कुदरत की करनी को पीछे छोड़ कंचन लखानी ने लिख दी सफलता की इबारत - Leaving the actions of nature behind wrote the success story jagran special |url=https://www.jagran.com/haryana/faridabad-ncr-leaving-the-actions-of-nature-behind-wrote-the-success-story-jagran-special-23201313.html |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Jagran |language=hi}}</ref> In 2018, she represented India at the World Para Grand Prix Athletics Championships in Paris. The next year in 2019, she also took part in the World Para Grand Prix Athletics Championships in Beijing.<ref name=":1" /> Earlier in 2017, she won three gold medals in the National Para Athletics Championships in Jaipur.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> In March 2018, she won a gold at the 18th National Para Athletics held in Panchkula.<ref name=":1" />

[[Dainik Jagran]], a national newspaper, gave her the Nari Shaktikaran Award on Women's Day.<ref name=":1" />

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.facebook.com/kanchan.lakhani.5/about_work_and_education Facebook]
* [https://www.paralympic.org/kanchan-lakhani Paralympic.org]

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[[Category:Paralympic discus throwers]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Faridabad]]
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[[Category:Paralympic athletes for India]]
[[Category:Indian women discus throwers]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Paralympics]]

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Satarupa at 16:13, 28 February 2026