Nirmala Sheoran
.jpg) Nirmala Sheoran - Gold Medal Winner in 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 15 July 1995 Bhiwani district, Haryana, India | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  India | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | 400 metres | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 400m: 51.48s (Hyderabad 2016) | |||||||||||||||||
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Nirmala Sheoran (born 15 July 1995)[1] is an Indian sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres event.
Early life and career
Sheoran was born in Chehad Khurd village of Haryana state's Bhiwani district.[2]
She qualified for two events at the 2016 Summer Olympics: the women's 400 metres and the women's 4 × 400 metres relay.
Sheoran qualified for the women's 400 metres event at the Olympics by clocking 51.48 seconds, her personal best time, at the National Inter-State Senior Athletics championships in Hyderabad in July 2016. She finished well below the Olympics qualification mark of 52.20 seconds and also surpassed the previous best time at the meet of 51.73 seconds set by M. R. Poovamma in 2014. Sheoran's time in the heats of the same event was 52.35 seconds, while her previous personal best of 53.94 seconds was set in 2013 at Chennai.[3][4]
Sheoran also qualified for the Olympics in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay event. The quartet of Sheoran, Poovamma, Tintu Lukka and Anilda Thomas clocked 3:27.88 at Bangalore in July 2016, finishing with the 12th best time in the world as top 16 relay teams qualified for the Olympics.[5][6]
In 2017 She was part of the winning 4x400m team who took gold at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneshwar. The team was Nirmala, Mazumdar, M. R. Poovamma and Jisna Mathew.[7]
References
- ^ "Nirmla - Olympic Athletics". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Das, Indraneel (13 August 2016). "'This will last for a few days, after that I will be forgotten... that's life'". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Rio 2016: Nirmala Sheoran sets championship record to qualify for Olympics in 400m". DNA India. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ "Nirmala Sheoran achieves Olympic qualification". ESPN.in. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ Ninan, Susan (13 July 2016). "Indian men's, women's 4x400 relay teams seal Rio spots". ESPN.in. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ Ninan, Susan (11 July 2016). "4x400 women's relay team a strong medal hope: Usha". ESPN.in. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ "Asian Athletics Championships 2017: Deconstruction of the gold standard". The Indian Express. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
