T47 is the category where athletes have a unilateral upper limb impairment, such as a below-elbow or wrist amputation or similar reduced function, paired with normal leg function.

Gavit’s right hand was amputated after he fell down from a mango tree as a five year old. He started his athletics career at the age of 17 by coach Vajinath Kale.

He spotted young Gavit at a local meet about six years back. “I’ll be honest. It wasn’t like that he was a great runner at that time nor did I see something special in him. I just wanted the young child to have a fair chance at the sport, and that could happen only with good formal coaching,” coach Kale had told this newspaper back in 2021.

Meanwhile, the other medallist Basil was born without his right arm.

The sprinter from Kerala started sprinting at the age of 16 and after a strong breakthrough year in 2026 booked his berth for the Commonwealth Games.

Interestingly, Basil defeated Gavit during the CWG trials in the T46-47 final, finishing ahead of Gavit with 10.64s.

With this performance, Gavit became the first Indian male athlete to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal in Para Athletics and only the second Indian para athlete overall to win a CWG Para Athletics gold, after Sharmila’s gold in the Women’s Shot Put F57 event.