FULL NAME: Soubhagya Kumar Rath
GENDER: Male
BORN: 1st July, 1989 (Source: Self)
FAMILY: Father (Late Panchanan Rath), Mother (Basanti Rath), Wife (Dr Sagarika Mishra)
PERMANENT ADDRESS: Nayagarh, Odisha, India
PRESENT ADDRESS: Cuttack, Odisha, India
PHONE: 94385 89974 (Mobile)
EDUCATION: Studied at Brajendra High School, Nayagarh; Nayagarh College; Krupajala Engineering College, Bhubaneswar and National Institute of Technology, Patna.
PROFESSION: Working as Transmission Executive at All India Radio since 17 June 2015. Working at All India Radio Sambalpur since 11 December 2011. Earlier worked at All India Radio Cuttack.
ROLE IN SPORTS: Ironman, Mountaineer, Triathlete
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Sumit Kumar Sahoo (Swimming)

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPORTS:
*     Created mountaineering history for Odisha as he and his wife Sagarika Mishra became the first couple from the State to successfully summit Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa and the largest free-standing mountain of the world on 28 February 2025.
*     Successfully completed the Kili International Half Marathon (21.1 km) with a time of 02:24.22 at Mosi, Tanzania on 23 February 2025.
*     Became the third Ironman Triathlete from Odisha by completing 3.8 km swimming, 180km bicycle ride and 42.2 km run in Hamburg, Germany in 2019. The stipulated time was 15:50 and he successfully completed in 15:27:59.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     Covered the 38th National Games 2025 (beach sports) at Shivpuri, Rishikesh in Uttarakhand.
*     He is a member of Odisha Sports Journalists Association.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 23 August 2019
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 6 March 2025