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{{Infobox sportsperson<br />
| full_name = Sonalben Manubhai Patel<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1987|9|15}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Viramgam]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]<br />
| spouse = Ramesh Chaudhary<br />
| country = {{IND}}<br />
| sport = Athletics<br />
| event = Para Table Tennis C3<br />
}}{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2020}}<br />
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'''Sonalben Manubhai Patel''' is an international [[Para table tennis]] [[Player (game)|player]] and Asian medalist from [[Viramgam]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]].<br />
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== Career ==<br />
She is participating in wheelchair class 3 para table tennis. She is making her Paralympic debut in Tokyo Paralympic 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|agency=Press Trust of India|title=Tokyo Paralympics, table tennis: Bhavinaben and Sonalben Patel go down in opening round matches|url=https://scroll.in/field/1003671/tokyo-paralympics-table-tennis-bhavinaben-and-sonalben-patel-go-down-in-opening-round-matches|access-date=2021-08-26|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=admin|last2=newstesla|date=2021-08-25|title=Tokyo Paralympics: Paddler Sonalben Patel loses her Group D opener {{!}} Tokyo Olympics News - Times of India {{!}} NewsTesla|url=https://newstesla.com/tokyo-paralympics-paddler-sonalben-patel-loses-her-group-d-opener-tokyo-olympics-news-times-of-india/,%20https://newstesla.com/tokyo-paralympics-paddler-sonalben-patel-loses-her-group-d-opener-tokyo-olympics-news-times-of-india/|access-date=2021-08-26|website=newstesla.com|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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Ms. Lakhia from Blind People's Association, [[Ahmedabad]] encouraged her to take up Table Tennis and she soon began to train professionally under the guidance of her coach Lalan Doshi.<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
She was diagnosed with [[polio]] when she was 6 months old, which later affected both her legs and right hand and left her with 90% disability.<ref>{{Citation|title=Polio couldn't stop her, Gujarat's Sonalben Patel is India's Paralympic hope {{!}} The Bridge|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXQREhJ0CWs|language=en|access-date=2021-08-26}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[India at the Paralympics]]<br />
* [[Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics]]<br />
[[Category:Indian female table tennis players]]<br />
[[Category:Paralympic table tennis players of India]]<br />
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[[Category:1987 births]]<br />
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