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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