Legendary sprinter PT Usha takes over as the president of Indian Olympic Association

Legendary sprinter PT Usha takes over as the president of Indian Olympic Association

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Category : Sports Published on: November 29 2022

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Legendary sprinter PT Usha has been elected as the president of the Indian Olympic Association.
Usha is one of the most decorated Indian athletes ever, having won 11 medals, including four golds in the Asian Games from 1982 and 1994.
She also bagged four goal medals at the 1986 Seoul Asian Games, winning the 200m, 400m, 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay events.
Usha is considered as one of the best Indian athletes of all-time but is most remembered for missing out on a medal in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics 400m hurdles final, where she was beaten by Romania’s Cristieana Cojocaru by one hundredth of a second.
The legendary sprinter will become the first sportsperson to have represented the country and also become IOA chief since Maharaja Yadavindra Singh, who played a Test match in 1934.
Yadavindra Singh was the third IOA president who held office from 1938 to 1960.

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