The golden boy of artistic skating

HYDERABAD: Anup Kumar Yama is on a roll. After having recently bagged two gold medals at the 11th National Ice Skating Championship in Gurgaon, he also won World Championship in Artistic Roller Skating at Taiwan, apart from grabbing gold medals in various international games. He has also trained Bollywood diva Deepika Padukone and Neil Nitin Mukesh for their movie, Lafangay Parinday. For the 29-year-old Hyderabadi, skating comes as naturally as breathing. The skating bug bit him when his father used to skate for recreation. After the sport came to India in the 60s, his brother turned a skater and today, coaches Anup.