Before javelin, Sumit Antil wanted to be a wrestler. That changed when a motorbike accident at age 17 cost him his left leg below the knee, a turning point detailed in both The Quint and The Better India’s profiles of his journey. Rather than step away from sport, Antil, who hails from Sonipat, Haryana, redirected his training toward para-athletics.
The redirection paid off emphatically. At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Antil won gold in the men’s javelin throw F64 event with a world-record throw of 68.55m. He did not stop there — at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Para Games, he extended his own world record to 73.29m, a distance reported as the farthest javelin throw recorded across all categories in para-athletics at that time.
Antil’s Instagram bio reflects the honors that followed: he is listed as a Padmashree and Khel Ratna Awardee, and describes himself as a 2x Paralympic Champion and 3x World Champion. His story, as recounted in interviews with Olympics.com and recognized by ESPN’s Para Athlete of the Year honors in 2023, remains anchored in the specifics of what he accomplished on the field rather than the accident that preceded it.
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