Rongali Ravi

Ravi Rongali (born 25 July 1996) is an Indian para athlete from Andhra Pradesh. He competes in the shot put F40 category. He qualified to represent India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics at Paris.

Early life and education Ravi is from Chirikivanipalem village, Kotapadu mandal, in the erstwhile Visakhapatnam district, which is now in Anakapalle district. His father Demudu Babu and mother Manga are farmers. He is dwarf in nature, standing at 125cms in height. He did his schooling at a residential school in Bheemunipatnam and completed his intermediate at Punyagiri. Later, he completed his graduation at Mahati Degree College, Visakhapatnam. He learnt his basics and initially trained under coach Rahul Balakrishna. He trained for Paralympics under coach Diwakara Thimme Gowda at Sports Authority of India South Centre at Bangalroe.

Career Ravi started with badminton and won a silver medal in doubles and a bronze in singles at the National Para Badminton Championships at Bangalore in 2015. He won two more bronze in the Nationals at Faridabad in 2016. Later, he switched to athletics and focused on individual throw events and won a gold medal the at18th National Para Athletics Championships at Faridabad, Haryana in 2018.