Liver Donor, Medalist Athlete, Entrepreneur, and TEDX Speaker

Each of the 2,500 athletes who participated in the recent World Transplant Games celebrated in Perth (Australia) last April, they had a story about overcoming adversity, adapting to routine life and making daily efforts to return to normal, after an operation where their lives were headed. There is always sport as a stimulus. Ankita Shrivastava (1993, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India) was a basketball player selected in the national youth categories and a swimmer in his country’s competitions until he was 18 years old, with a firm belief from the age of 13 to donate part of his liver with his mother, he entered an operating room that stopped his sporty development.

medical question

When Ankita Shrivastava he is 13 years old, his mother was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. It was the result of a blood transfusion infected with hepatitis when she gave birth. Shrivastava he is the only partner, but he cannot donate part of his liver until he is 18 years old. The waiting period is horrible to watch the days go by without help.

When he finally reached 18, another problem arose. I had to gain weight. He weighs only 50 kilos and to get through the surgery he has to increase his body weight. She said “I had to gain a lot of weight in order to donate. I ate, threw up, and kept eating to finally reach my goal weight. Then my mom went into a coma and we had to wait he went out to continue the transplant.” Months passed and Ankita he turned 19. The doctors weren’t sure the transplant would be successful, but he insisted they try it. Finally, on February 26, 2014, at the age of 21, Shrivastava he donated 74% of his liver, but fate had it otherwise. His mother died three months after the operation.

SA Ankita he is left with an emotional hole in his heart and a memory scar. He was in the ICU for 18 days and it took two months before he could walk. To make matters worse, his father also abandoned the family. He had to start finding his life to support his family with the effects of the operation reminding him of what happened. He began working at a large printing, publishing and animation company while juggling college.

Competition as a refuge

He decided to pursue athletics. After spending a year recuperating, he began training rigorously. With only partial sponsorship and administrative support from organ of Indiahe hung three medals on Newcastle World Games of 2019. He explained that “preparing to be an athlete after a transplant is not an easy task.” In addition, his diet changed: “Digestive problems after the transplant meant he had to stick to a strict diet, including fresh fruits and vegetables.” He said, convinced that “the athlete in me refused to let this operation that changed my life break my spirit.”

In this edition at Australia, competed in the donor category where he won the gold medal in the long jump with a distance of 3.07m. and two silver medals, one in the shot put with a distance of 28.27m. and another at a distance of 3,000m. with a time of 23:54.71.

successful businessman

She tops the list of most famous Indian businesswomen while running an audiovisual entertainment agency. With an MBA from University of Pennsylvaniawas awarded the Top World Women Leaders, the Women in Business, the Excellence in Sports and the National Sports Times Award 2019, among many others.

He is a director of Aadarsh ​​Technosoft and MSA Global Sourcing, which deals with the sourcing of entertainment products worldwide from the Disney company in India. He also works, with two other colleagues from Wharton School of Businessfor your early stage startup, airfit, which plans to open crossfit centers in airports. He also leads the talks TEDX from entrepreneurship to sports.