Janki Goud | |
Birth Place: | Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India |
Sport: | Judo |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Janki Goud is an Indian judoka.[1] She won a bronze medal at the 2017 Judo Asian & Oceania Championship held by the International Blind Sports Federation at Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[2] [3] She was congratulated by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in a tweet.[4]
In 2016 and 2017, she won silver and gold medals respectively at the 4th and 5th National Judo Championship for Deaf & Blind.[5] She won the gold medal at the 6th National Blind and Deaf Judo Championship, held in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in February 2018.[6]
At the age of 5, she lost her sight after contracting measles. As of August 2018, she has been reported to be 23 years old.[1] She received judo and self-defence training from Sightsavers, a nongovernmental organization.[7]