Lalitha Killaka
Indian para athlete
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Lalitha Killaka is a para athlete from Andhra Pradesh. She won a gold and a silver at the World Para Athletics Championships in March 2024. Earlier in October 2023, she won a silver medal at the 2022 Asian Para Games.[1]
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| Born | Vizianagaram, India | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paralympic athletics | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life and education
Killaka is a visually challenged tribal girl from Gummalakshmipuram in Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh.[2] She did her schooling at Netra Vidyalaya run by Chinna Jeer Swami and passed Class X in 2020. She is currently studying 2nd year degree in Netra Vidyalaya college. She is trained by coach Rahul Balakrishna.[3] Tabares Khan is her guide runner. Her father K. Borja[4] and mother Chitamma are farm labourers. She is one of the four siblings.[2] Her school awarded her a cash prize of Rs.3,00,000 and Rs.50,000 for her guide runner.[3][5]
Career
She was part of the Indian team at the 2022 Asian Para Games at Hangzhou, China.[6] She won a silver medal[7][8] finishing second behind Rakshitha Raju in the women 1500m T11 on 25 October 2023.[9][10]
In May 2023, she won a silver at the 5th Indian Open Para Athletics International Championship at Shree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru.[11]