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Shital Mahajan Rane, is an Indian extreme sportsperson, skydiver and the holder of five world records 14 National records in the sport. She is known as the first woman to perform first parachute jump of life without training over the Geographical North pole in minus 37 degree Celsius from 2400 ft, and first accelerated free fall jump without any trials over the Antarctica - South pole from 11,600 feet, in minus 38 degree Celsius the youngest woman to jump over both the North and South Poles, and the first woman jumper to perform it without trials. The Government of India honored Mahajan in 2011, with the fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri. ==Biography== Shital Mahajan was born on 19 September 1982 at Pune in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra to mother Mamta Mahajan house wife and father Kamalakar Mahajan, an machine worker with Tata Motors. Her education was at the Fergusson College, Pune from where she graduated (BSc) in geology. Inspired by the feats of a friend's brother, she took a fascination for para jumping. Her first jump was on 18 April 2004 after which she is reported to have achieved 652 jumps.〔 Shital is married to Vaibhav Rane, a software engineer working in Finland. The solemnization of the marriage was performed on a hot air balloon, 600 feet above ground, on 19 April 2008,〔 a feat which has been recorded in the Limca Book of World Records. The couple has twin sons. Shital Mahajan is the founder of ''Phoenix Skydiving Academy'', a skydiving training centre based in Pune. The academy, established in 2012, provides training facilities for aspiring students and prepares students for skydiving competitions around the world. Shital Mahajan is the first woman in the world to perform a static line jump from 2400 ft over Geographic North Pole on 18th April 2004. she is a first woman in the world to perform accelerated free fall jump over the Antarctice - South Pole, which was completed on 15 December 2006. She also became the first woman to perform successful jumps over the North and South Poles, without any trials,〔 when she completed her jump over the South Pole.〔 The attempt also made her the youngest woman to achieve the feat at the age of 24. The first Indian woman to perform a wing suit jump, Mahajan is a US certified A, B, C and D skydiver and trainer〔 and is the first Indian civilian woman skydiving coach.〔 shital has done skydiving from 6 different aircrafts and skydiving from verious heights from 2400 ft to 18000 ft. Mahajan was a leader of the team that created a world record as the first team to perform free fall parachute jump over Antarctica.〔 She has also led a team of 89 Indian skydivers to achieve a record for maximum tandem jumps in one day and also 35 tandem jumps in one hour, the jumps performed on 25 August 2014 at Spain.〔〔 She is also credited with a free fall jump from a hot air ballon at 5800 feet〔 and a jump at 24000 feet.〔 shital mahajan and her husband Mr. vaibhav rane also has achieved first Indian civilian couple to get skydiving licences. as a couple shital and vaibhav has 2 National records and 1 World record. shital mahajan was part of 79 way skydiving formation in California in 2012. she was the only Asian woman who participated in that skydiving formation attempt. in total shital has 14 National and 5 World records in her credit till September 2015.〔http://www.ibnlive.com/news/sports/indias-most-unknown-sportsperson-shital-mahajan-has-broken-five-world-records-1109327.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shital Mahajan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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