Deepa Malik's Silver medal: Virender Sehwag hails Paralympian's effort with BRILLIANT message

New Delhi: Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag on Monday took to Twitter to congratulate Deepa Malik's medal-winning performance at Rio Paralympics.

Deepa, on Monday bagged a Silver medal in shot put, which made her the first woman to win a medal at Paralympics.

The 45-year-old's throw of 4.61m won her a silver in the shot put F-53 event.

Sehwag, who is known to laud performances of Indian athletes, once again took to social micro-blogging site to tweet an inspirational message for Deepa.

Thank you & congrats #DeepaMalik for reminding us how fortunate we are to be cheering for inspirations like you pic.twitter.com/FbXxV8KaV6

— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) September 12, 2016