Sarmad Tariq,
From Islamabad,
Injury level ,
Incident on .
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Sarmad Tariq is an athlete, story-teller or motivational speaker, life coach & a writer. After meeting a
swimming accident at the age of 15 he was left shoulder down paralyzed
and confined to a wheelchair. Sarmad believes that his
physical confinement is the reason to his spiritual liberation.
Resilience being the key to his success.
Among regular achievements he also holds the world record of longest non-stop drive by a quadriplegic and drove his hand controlled car for 33 hours, covering a distance of 1,847 km from Khyber to Karachi. On 30th January 2005 he was the first ever and only wheelchair bound athlete in Lahore Marathon, by finishing the race distance of 42km in seven and a half hours he qualified to represent his country in ING New York City Marathon 2005 and made history for Pakistan by returning with a finisher’s medal. Author of a fiction novel "Natural Gases by Shuntoo".
Among regular achievements he also holds the world record of longest non-stop drive by a quadriplegic and drove his hand controlled car for 33 hours, covering a distance of 1,847 km from Khyber to Karachi. On 30th January 2005 he was the first ever and only wheelchair bound athlete in Lahore Marathon, by finishing the race distance of 42km in seven and a half hours he qualified to represent his country in ING New York City Marathon 2005 and made history for Pakistan by returning with a finisher’s medal. Author of a fiction novel "Natural Gases by Shuntoo".
His passion to find his hidden abilities and stretching those to extreme limits has inspired many.
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