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Jyothi Hiriyur Manjunath (born 1 July 1983) is an Indian professional sprinter who competes in 100 metre, 200 metre, and 4x100 metre relay categories. She is the former national champion and is currently ranked third place in India with the personal best timings of 11.46 and 23.42 seconds in 100 and 200 metres respectively. A Canara Bank employee, Jyothi is married to former Indian sprinter and Asian Championship medalist Srinivas.[1]
Hiriyur Manjunath Jyothi was born to father Manjunath and mother Thipamma in Hiriyur, Chitradurga, Karnataka on 1 July 1983. Her father H. N. Manjunath has sold everthing to make his daughter Jyothi's wishes come true. She is the third of her four siblings.
Career highlights
At the beginning of her career, she was participating in the 400 metre relay and won gold in the 400 metre relay at the Asian Athletics Championships held at South Korea in 2004.
She had won bronze in the 100 metre relay at the Asian Athletic Championship in China, which became India's first sprint medal in nine years.
Jyothi, an ankle leg runner at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, earned a bronze medal when she finished the 400 metre relay, breaking all the odds, missing silver by one-tenth of a second.
Jyothi was part of a national squad comprising Merlin Joseph, Srabani Nanda, and Dutee Chand, who broke the national record at the IAAF World Challenge at Beijing in May 2016.[2]
The same squad went on to break their own national record in the following month with the timing 43.42 (stands till date) at Almaty, Kazakhstan. Missing out the Rio Olympics Qualification by milliseconds. [3]
Jyothi (second) from leftShe won the Best Athlete Award at 2016 Open nationals on winning gold in 100 metre, 200 metre and 400 metre relays.
She has many medals at the national and international levels to her name.
Jyothi has been honoured with the Ekalavya Award by her state government, an award given to the Outstanding Sports person from her state. She has also been felicitated with the Rajyothsava award and the Karnataka Olympics Association Award.
warming up during 2016 national championships
Family and breakthrough
Jyothi is married to former international sprinter Srinivas, who is also her present coach. In 2011, she took some rest from professional competition. In the same year, she gave birth to a baby girl. Jyothi gave a comeback at the 2014 Senior Interstate Meet. She then went on to participate at the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games losing out medals by finishing 5th place in both events. In 2016, she achieved her personal best timings in all her events at the Federation cup, held at Delhi.
