This is brief Presentation about the topic "FAMOUS WOMEN ATHLETES IN INDIA". P.T Usha, Anju boby george,Shiny Abraham, K.M Beena mol,Tintu Luka, Preeja Sreedharan

1. FAMOUS INDIAN WOMEN ATHLETS

2. This is a list of popular female
athletes from India with photos
when available. India has a rich
history of competing in sports, and
these are the famous females
making competition so exciting.
Some of the best Indian female
athletes in the world are listed
here, and many of them have
represented India in the Olympics..

3. P.T USHA
Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha
(born 27 June 1964), popularly known as P. T. Usha, is
a retired Indian track and field athlete. She has been
associated with Indian athletics since 1979.She is
regarded as one of the greatest athletes India has ever
produced and is often called the "queen of Indian
track and field". She is nicknamed as the Payyoli
Express. Currently she runs the Usha School of
Athletics at Koyilandy in Kerala. P. T. Usha was born in
the village of Payyoli, Kozhikode District, Kerala. In
1976, the Kerala State Government started a Sports
School for women, and Usha was chosen to represent
her district.

4. • Participated in the Moscow Olympics, 1980.
• Became the first Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event.
• Became the youngest Indian sprinter, aged 16, to compete in the 1980
Moscow Olympics.
• Participated in the 1982 New Delhi Asian Games.
Tried the 400m for the first time at the 1983 Asian Track and Field Meet (re-
christened as the Asian championship) at Kuwait. She emerged successful in
the one-lapper in an international arena for the first time.
• Achieved a record of 55.42 seconds at Los Angeles, the very first time the
400m hurdles was added to the women's athletics. This is the
current Indian national record.
• Won 5 gold medals and 1 bronze in 1985, at the Jakarta Asian Athletic
meet.
Current World Record for most gold medals earned by a female athlete in a
single track meet. Usha secured 5 gold medals, in the 100, 200, and 400
metre, 400m hurdles, and 4 × 400 m relay (1985 Asian Track and Field Meet at
Jakarta, Indonesia).
ACHIEVEMENTS

5. • Won 4 golds and 1 silver in 1986, Seoul Asian Games, claiming
for herself the title of Asia's sprint queen.
• Participated in three Olympic Games, Moscow 1980, Los
Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988. Member of 4 × 400 m relay
squad in Atlanta 1996, but did not compete.
• Represented India in 4 x 100 meters relay together with Rachita
Mistry, E. B. Shyla, and Saraswati Saha at the 1998 Asian
Championships in Athletics where her team won the gold
medal on way to setting the current national record of 44.43 s.

6. ANJU BOBY GEORGE
Anju Bobby George (born 19 April 1977) is
an Indian athlete. Anju Bobby George made history
when she won the bronze medal in Long Jump at
the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris.
With this achievement, she became the first Indian
athlete ever to win a medal in a World Championships
in Athletics jumping 6.70 m. She went on to win the
Gold medal at the IAAF World Athletics Final in 2005, a
performance she considers her best. Anju was
upgraded to gold status from silver in the 2005 World
Athletics Final in Monte Carlo following the
disqualification of Tatyana Kotova of Russia by the
International Association of Athletics Federations,
following the recent re-testing of the latter’s sample
collected at the 2005 World Championship in Helsinki .
She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2002.

7. ACHIEVEMENTS
With her bronze winning performance at the world
athletics Championship 2003 in Paris, Anju Bobby
George catapulted herself to fame and won the Rajiv
Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2004. Even before winning
the bronze at the Paris meet, Anju had shown a lot of
promise by winning the gold at the junior Asian
Championship in1996. Although she started with
Heptathlon, but later began to concentrate on her jump
events and went on to win long jump medal at the junior
Asian championship. She also won the silver medal at the
SAF games in Nepal. Anju became the first Indian woman
to win a bronze medal clearing 6.49 m at the
Commonwealth Games at Manchester 2002. She also
won the gold medal at the Busan Asian Games. Anju
received the prestigious Arjuna award (2003) for eminent
sports persons from the government of India after her
success in the World Athletic meet

8. SHINY ABRAHAM
Shiny Wilson (nee Abraham) (born 8 May 1965) is a
retired Indian athlete. She has been a National
Champion in 800 metres for 14 years.Shiny Abraham
Wilson (Shiny Abraham) represented India more than 75
times in international competition. She holds the added
distinction of representing Asia in four World Cups, She
is also perhaps the only athlete to have taken part in six
Asian Track & Field Meets in a row beginning 1985 in
Jakarta.During this period she won seven gold, five silver
and two bronze medals in the Asiad competitions. She
collected a total or 18 gold and two silver medals from
the seven South Asian Federation (SAF) Meets she has
competed.

9. ACHIEVEMENTS
 Shiny Abraham has participated in four Olympic Games: Los
Angeles (1984), Seoul (1988),
 Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta(1996). .
 Although she didn't win any medals at any of the four Olympics,
she and P.T. Usha powered India to an unexpected Women's 4X400
relay final at the 1984 Games.
 She was also the captain of the Indian Contingent at the 1992
Games.
 She has also represented India in three Asian Games and has won
a Gold, 2 Silvers and a Bronze.
 In the Asian Track and Field meets, she has won 7 Gold Medals, 6
Silver Medals and 2 Bronze Medals.
 Represented India for more than 75 Times .
 First Indian Women athlete to reach the semi-finals in Olympics in
women's 800m
 First Indian woman captain and flag bearer for Indian Contingent
for 1996 Atlanta Olympics

10. K.M BEENA MOL
Kalayathumkuzhi Mathews Beenamol, popularly known
as K. M. Beenamol (born 15 August 1975), from
Kombidinjal, Idukki district, Kerala is an international
athlete from India. Beenamol also made history with her
brother K. M. Binu, when they became the first Indian
siblings to win medals in a major international
competition. Binu won a silver medal in men's 800m
race. It was during 2000 Summer Olympics, beenamol
was largely unknown, until she became the third Indian
woman to reach an Olympic semi-final since P. T.
Usha and Shiny Wilson, who achieved almost the same
feat in 400m Hurdles in 800m respectively in the 1984
Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

11. TINTU LUKA
Tintu Luka (born 26 April 1989) is an Indian track and
field athlete, who predominantly competes in the middle-
distance running events. Born in Valathode, Kerala, she is
the national record holder in the women's 800 metres. Luka
represented India at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympic
Games. In addition to being the 2015 Asian Champion in the
800 meters, she has won a total of six medals at the Asian
Athletics Championships.
Luka also competes in sprinting events including 400
metres and the 4 × 400 metres relay, and was a part of the
gold medal winning relay team at the 2013 Asian Athletics
Championships and the 2014 Asian Games. She is mentored
by Indian Olympian P. T. Usha, and trains at the Usha School
of Athletics, Koyilandy, Kerala. She was awarded Arjuna
award, the country's second-highest sporting honour by
Government of India in 2014

12. ACHIVMENTS
In 2008, Luka won a silver medal in the 800-metre race at the Asian Junior
Athletics Championship in Jakarta.
At 2010 Commonwealth Games Luka finished in sixth place in the women's
800m with a timing of 2:01.25s.
Luka won the bronze medal in the women's 800 metres event of the track
and field competitions at the Asian Games 2010. Tintu, who had a
disappointing finish in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, led the pack right
from the start, but couldn't keep pace in the last 50 metres and finished
third with a timing of 2:01.36 seconds.
In the Continental Cup, Croatia, 2010, Luka timed 1:59.17, to break Shiny
Wilson’s 15-year-old national record of 1:59.85 in the 800m event.
In the second of the three semi-finals for 800 metres event at the
London 2012 Olympic Games, Luka finished sixth in her heat clocking an
1:59.69 seconds her seasons best, but could not qualify for the finals.
On 1 October 2014 Luka won the Silver Medal in the 800m at the Asian
Games held at Incheon, South Korea. She was also the part of the team that
won the Gold Medal in the 4 X 400 m relay at the 2014 Asian Games.The
team clocked 3:28:68 to break the Games Record.

13. PREEJA SREEDHARAN
Preeja Sreedharan (born 13 March 1982 at
Mullakkanam,Idukki Kerala) is an Indian long-distance runner.
She won gold medal in the 10,000 metres event and silver
in 5000 metres at the Guangzhou Asian Games. She holds Indian
national record for both 5000 and 10,000 metres.
At the 2006 Asian Games she finished fifth in both the 5000 and
the 10,000 metres. At the 2007 Asian
Championships at Amman she won the silver medal in the 10,000
metres. She qualified for the Beijing Olympics in June 2008 after
achieving a B qualifying mark for the Games and then finished
twenty-fifth in the Olympic 10,000 metres.
Her personal best for the 10,000 metres is 31:50:28 minutes in
Guangzhou Asian Games. This is the current Indian national
record.
Sreedharan emerged the winner among the Indian women
athletes taking part in the annual Delhi Half Marathon
She received the Arjuna Award for Athletics in 2011.

14. THANK YOU
By
Anju Varghese
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