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{{short description|Indian para high jumper}}
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| residence = [[Greater Noida]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
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'''Varun Singh Bhati''' (born 13 February 1995) is a para [[high jump]]er from India. He was afflicted by [[poliomyelitis]] at a young age, and joined sports during his school days. He has won several medals in international events including bronze at [[2016 Summer Paralympic Games]] and [[2017 World Para Athletics Championships]].

==Early life==
Since 2014, he has been coached by Satyanarayana, a former national athlete. Bhati is supported by the [[GoSports Foundation]] through the Para Champions Programme.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indusind.com/content/forsports/programmes/para-champions/varun-bhati.html|title=Varun Bhati|website=www.indusind.com|access-date=2019-01-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gosportsfoundation.in/|title=GoSports Foundation}}</ref> He lives in [[Greater Noida]]. He currently trains at the [[Sports Authority of India]] in Bangalore.<ref name="toi2016">{{cite web | title=Varun Singh Bhati overcame obstacles to clinch bronze at Paralympics | website=The Times of India | date=10 September 2016 | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/others/Varun-Singh-Bhati-overcame-obstacles-to-clinch-bronze-at-Paralympics/articleshow/54266286.cms | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref>

==Career==
Bhati has [[T42 (classification)|T42]] disability. He received attention in 2012 when he registered the 'A' qualification mark for the [[2012 Summer Paralympic Games]] in London with a performance of 1.60{{nbsp}}m. However, owing to limited slots available to India, he failed to qualify for the 2012 Games.<ref name="toi2016"/><ref name="HighBeam Research 2012">{{cite web | title=Varun Bhati makes the cut in high jump for Paralympics | website=HighBeam Research | date=29 March 2012 | url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2620377121.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911194258/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2620377121.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=11 September 2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref>

He participated in the 2014 [[Asian Para Games]] at [[Incheon]], Korea where he stood 5th. He won a gold medal at the 2014 China Open Athletics Championship the same year. In 2015, he stood 5th again at the 2015 Para World Championship in [[Doha]], Qatar. He recorded a jump of 1.82{{nbsp}}m at the 2016 IPC Athletics Asia-Oceania Championship where he won a gold as well as set a new Asian record.<ref name="toi2016"/><ref name="International Paralympic Committee 1995">{{cite web | title=(Athletics) Athlete Profile : BHATI Varun Singh - Dubai 2016 IPC Athletics Asia-Oceania Championships | website=International Paralympic Committee | date=13 February 1995 | url=https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/dubai-2016/ENG/ZB/ZBB101A_DU2016AT@@@@@@@ENG_number=22882.htm | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref>

Bhati won the bronze medal in the [[2016 Summer Paralympic Games]] at [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]] when he jumped 1.86{{nbsp}}m, his personal best.<ref name="toi2016"/><ref name="won2016">{{cite web | title=Rio Paralympics: Mariyappan Thangavelu wins gold, Varun Bhati clinches bronze in men's high jump | website=The Times of India | date=10 September 2016 | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/others/Rio-Paralympics-Mariyappan-Thangavelu-wins-gold-Varun-Bhati-clinches-bronze-in-mens-high-jump/articleshow/54259706.cms | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> He won the bronze in the [[2017 World Para Athletics Championships]] by clearing a 1.77{{nbsp}}m jump.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/silver-for-sharad-kumar-bronze-for-varun-bhati-at-world-para-athletics-championship-4763528/|title=Silver for Sharad Kumar, Bronze for Varun Bhati at World Para Athletics Championship|date=2017-07-23|website=The Indian Express|language=en-IN|access-date=2019-01-01}}</ref>

He won a silver medal in the [[2018 Asian Para Games]], recording a jump of 1.82{{nbsp}}m.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/asian-para-games-sharad-kumar-smashes-continental-record-for-gold-in-mens-high-jump-5397935/|title=Varun bhati smashes Silver in 2018 Asian Para Games at jakarta|work=Indian Express|access-date=11 October 2018}}</ref>

== Awards ==
[[File:The President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind presenting the Arjuna Award, 2017 to Shri Varun Singh Bhati for Para-Athletics, in a glittering ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on August 29, 2017.jpg|thumb|Varun Singh Bhati being awarded the Arjuna Award (2017) by the President of India, [[Ram Nath Kovind]] at [[Rashtrapati Bhavan]] in [[New Delhi]] on 29 August 2017]]

Bhati was awarded the [[Arjuna Award]] on 29 August 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/videos/videos-sport/2017/aug/04/para-high-jumper-varun-bhati-to-get-arjuna-award-102127.html|title=Para high jumper Varun Bhati to get Arjuna Award|website=The New Indian Express|access-date=2019-01-01}}</ref>

He was voted Para-athlete of the Year 2017 at the Times of India Sports Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/mahindra-scorpio-toisa-varun-bhati-voted-para-athlete-of-the-year/articleshow/63081885.cms|title=varun-bhati-voted-para-athlete-of-the-year|website=Times of India}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Sharad Kumar (athlete)|Sharad Kumar]]

==References==
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[[Category:University of Delhi alumni]]
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