An eminent sports personality, Padma Shri and Arjuna Awardee, Smt. Deepa Malik is India’s first female para-athlete to win a medal at the Paralympics (Rio, 2016). She has to her credit Asian record in the Javelin throw for five consecutive years. She is also the first Indian paraplegic open-water swimmer, having swum across the Yamuna; a biker and a celebrated car rallyist who became the first Indian with paraplegia to hold an FMSCI (Federation Motor Sports Club of India) rally license & participate in the Raid de Himalaya, the highest rally raid in the world. Limca Book of Records recognises her for four distinctions in Adventure Sports.
She was honored with INDIAN WOMEN ACHIEVERS AWARD by the President of India on January, 20, 2018 at New Delhi
