He won the silver in the 800m run, behind the Japanese gold winner by just 13 microseconds. "It was just this much," says Dhama—the length of his hand. "I was disappointed but it was a close fight. Also, the winner is a very senior athlete, well over 30," he says. Dhama lost his sight suddenly, over a week, when he was six or seven. "Doctors said it was due to an injury but I've no idea when that happened. I've been operated upon seven-eight times but my vision couldn't be restored or even improved," he says. He's competes in Track 11 for the 100% blind; and though he has no use for them, he sometimes wears a snazzy pair of glasses as a style statement.
Dhama is originally from Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, where his parents and elder brother are farmers. On his doctor's suggestion, he moved to Delhi and attended JPM Senior Secondary School for the Blind at Lodhi Road. He first competed internationally while still in school. He won two golds—the first lot of many—at the World Youth and Student Championships in 2009. He got to join because at the 2008 Indian Blind Sports Association's national meet, he won gold and set the junior records for both 400 and 800 metres. He covered them in 1:1 minutes and 2:25 minutes, respectively, breaking previous records of 1:3 minutes and 2:37 minutes. He's got a lot faster since, doing better at meets in Malaysia, Dubai and Sharjah. At Incheon, his times were 4:23 minutes for 1,500m (bronze medal) and 2:9 minutes for 800 (silver). He won the second bronze for covering 5,000m in 16:41 minutes; this was the first time he was competing in that category.
The totally blind have guides. "The guide runs alongside holding one end of a rope. You hold the other. He can't drag or pull but helps you with things like directions and obstacles," explains Dhama. His guide was Ankit Yadav whom he met at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium where he trains and his coach is Satyapal Singh, the first Dronacharya Awardee in Delhi University. Singh is sports teacher at Acharya Narendra Dev College.
Stephen's, that had once barred cricketer Unmukt Chand from writing his semester exams for not meeting minimum attendance requirements, has been supportive to Dhama. "My applications for attendance waiver and other permissions are cleared. And whenever I've asked for anything—adjustment in meal times, for instance—they've accommodated." Dhama finished first year of History honours with a 78%.
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