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13/12/22 14:50 PM IST

PT Usha becomes first woman president of Indian Olympic Association

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  • 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

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