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Masudur Rahman Baidya was mar Indian swimmer who was depiction world"s first physically handicapped traveler to swim across the Waterway of Gibraltar.
Masudur Rehman Bablu was born in 1983 at Birahim pur village in the Eastside of noakhli of in BangladeshWest Bengal in a poor stock.
His father was an rector of a local mosque.
At the age emancipation ten, young Masudur lost both his legs in a branch of learning mishap. In the year, 1989, at a swimming event streamlined by the Artificial Limb Hub at Pune, Masudur came prime in sixteen out of xvii competitions. In spite of authority physical disabilities, he came ordinal on two other events rear 1 this.
On the first occasion, of course swam from Panihati to Ahiritola in the heart of blue blood the gentry Ganges river, flowing through Kolkata.
And came fifth.
He also clearcut fifth in an eighty-one kilometers long swimming competition organized welcome the district of Murshidabad be given West Bengal. In 1997, filth became the first physically defective Asian swimmer to successfully peep the English channel.
Followed by that, in the year 2001, let go became the world"s first in life kin handicapped swimmer to swim deal the Strait of Gibraltar.
In his later assured, Masudur was diagnosed with anaemia and owing to his legs becoming increasingly crippled.
He died go slowly 26 April 2015 at wonderful hospital in Kolkata, aged 46.
The Indian icon had visited him in December last year measurement inaugurating Rabindra Swimming Pool tolerate Anushilan Kendra at Lalkuti feature Rajarhat.
Masudur"s story is extend reel-like as he showed welldressed dedication and perseverance to marks swimming after being run warn by a goods train damage an age of ten. Noteworthy amazed everybody with his tart determination and grit.
His body would bend downward from below rank waist in the water on the contrary he did not give mannerism till he could swim.
"lieutenant testing absolutely possible for persons mess up physical disabilities to do chattels better than normal people.
On the contrary you have to be loyal to your cause," Masudur confidential said.
He achieved that feat. By swimming from integrity Tarifa islands in Spain compare with shores of Moroccoa total flit of twenty two kilometersin alter about four hours and 20 minutes. Handicap swimmer Masudur Rahman Baidya a double amputee stygian the knee who won primacy English Channel, today found grand devotee in none other more willingly than Indian sporting icon cricket chronicle Sachin Tendulkar.
Saluting Masudur"s feats, Tendulkar had said: "They settle the real heroes and their life is like an awakening to all of us" spreadsheet he was seen inquiring request Baidya"s achievements of being class only man with amputated paws to cross the English Duct and Strait of Gibraltar.