All the four students are mildly mentally challenged and are the only ones selected from Punjab for the international event. The winners include 16-year-old Ramandeep Kaur, daughter of a driver, who bagged goldin 4x100 m relay and bronze in shot put.

Twenty-year-old Ashish John, a resident of village Shampura, was a part of the basketball team that struck gold. Ashish’s father runs a small cycle repair shop in the village. Harvinder Kumar, the 16-year-old son of a tea stall owner in Ropar city, bagged two silver medals —in badminton singles and mixed doubles as well as a bronze in the boys’ doubles. Nineteen-years-old Gurcharan Singh from village Mansali won bronze in the 15 km road race cycling event.

The World Summer Special Olympics are held every four years. In 2003, Honey Saini, a female student from the centre had played badminton and won gold in the mixed doubles and silver in doubles. She was moderately mentally challenged. Honey is now rehabilitated and is efficiently looking after her grandparents and father.

In 2007, the Olympics were held at Shanghai where no student from Punjab was selected. This year, the Indian delegation comprised of 188 participants and boasted a tally of 240 medals.
SRC.http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110708/sports.htm#7