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Masudur Rahman Baidya was an Indian swimmer who was the world"s first physically handicapped swimmer to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Background
Masudur Rehman Bablu was born in 1983 at Birahim pur village in the East of noakhli of in BangladeshWest Bengal in a poor family. His father was an imam of a local mosque.
Career
At the age of ten, young Masudur lost both his legs in a train mishap.
Masudur rahman swimmer biography of mahatma
In the year, 1989, at a swimming event organized by the Artificial Limb Centre at Pune, Masudur came first in sixteen out of seventeen competitions. In spite of his physical disabilities, he came fifth on two other events after this.
On the first occasion, he swam from Panihati to Ahiritola in the heart of the Ganges river, flowing through Kolkata.
And came fifth.
He also stood fifth in an eighty-one kilometers long swimming competition organized in the district of Murshidabad in West