Sign In
Learn bits
Today in News
Mahesh

13/12/22 14:50 PM IST

PT Usha becomes first woman president of Indian Olympic Association

In News
  • The legendary PT Usha was recently elected as the first woman president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
About PT Usha
  • Overall, Usha won 23 medals in the Asian track and field events in the 1980s and remained active as a coach post-retirement. She is also known as the “Queen of track and field”
  •  58-year-old P T Usha gained immense popularity back in the 1980s at a time when not many women came forward in the world of sports. She found herself a place in one of the first batches of sport-oriented schools the Kerala government had set up at that time.
  • Los Angeles Olympics of 1984: She qualified for the 400m hurdles final and missed out on the bronze medal by just one-hundredth of a second. Despite her defeat, this game made her a household name in India
  • PT Usha is perhaps the first Indian sports icon who returned to track and field after taking a hiatus from the sport following her marriage in 1991. She has been conferred with the Padma Shri and Arjuna Award
  • She has now become the first Olympian and the first international medallist to head the IOA in its 95-year-old history.
  • Usha is the first sportsperson to have represented the country and also become IOA chief since Maharaja Yadavindra Singh, who played a Test match in 1934.
Source- Hindustan Times

More Related Current Affairs View All

05 Aug

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)

'In a note that police found in his wallet, the gunman who killed four people in New York on Monday claimed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — a result of playin

Read More

05 Aug

How India’s pesticide market is changing

'Crop protection chemicals are commonly known as “pesticides”.' These are basically substances sprayed on crops to protect against insects (“pests”) that

Read More

04 Aug

Maharashtra’s new security Bill

'The Maharashtra Legislature passed the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill or a ‘Bill to provide for effective prevention of certain unlawful activities of Left Wing Ex

Read More

India’s First Ai-Driven Magazine Generator

Generate Your Custom Current Affairs Magazine using our AI in just 3 steps