Vishwaraj Rajendrasinh Jadeja

Vishwaraj Jadeja, born on 4th October 1985 in Gujarat, is India's fastest long-distance Ice Skater who has put India on the map for creating world records in Ice Skating. He trains as an elite athlete in the Netherlands under the guidance of his current coach Wim Nieuwenhuizen, who is arguably one of the toughest coaches in ice-skating in the world. Vishwaraj started with Roller Skating but switched to ice-skating later and decided to go to Europe to train and master the sport. After seeing the competition, he realized that it was not easy to switch from one sport to the other but Vishwaraj, being firm with his decision, has proved his mettle in a couple of years. Of course, like every athlete who loves his sport, he has the same dream and goal - to represent India at the Olympics.

Major Achievements -

• Vishwaraj holds 65 national records and competed in over 200 races for India.
• He has won the National gold medal in Roller Skating and Lower Division Race in Europe.
• He was awarded the Sardar Patel Award in 2004-05 for his achievement in skating.
• Vishwaraj was the only athlete to have competed in all the different races and recorded his personal best time at the 2017 Asian Winter Games held in Japan.
• He has set an unofficial world record for Ice skating at a distance of 5 km at an altitude of 4,500 meters at Lake Tso Moriri in January 2019.
• He won four medals at the 2020 Winter World Masters Games, including 3 silver medals and 1 bronze medal. Vishwaraj won silver in the 3 km, 5 km and 10 km races, while he finished third in the 1 km race and won the bronze.