For para athletics star Vanessa Low, return to India is a full-circle moment
12°57′ N 77°37′ E is tattooed on the left arm of multiple Paralympic medalist Vanessa Low of Australia.The co-ordinates are of Bengaluru. Her first-ever visit to India in 2009 was to the Garden City. She was 19 then and it was her first international classification event. She has three more coordinates of Christchurch, Lyon and Doha, host cities of the World Para Athletics Championships.Over a decade and a half since her visit to Bengaluru, the 34-year-old is back in the country as three-time Paralympic gold medalist and three-time World Champion in the T63 Long Jump. She’s in the capital to take part in the first-ever World Para Athletics Grand Prix happening in the national capital.
“2009 was my first trip. It was very chaotic. Transport didn’t work well and there were struggles but I lo...