Who coached the athlete who is often called "queen of Indian track and field" and Payyoli Express?
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O. M. Nambiar O. M. Nambiar (born 1932) is an Indian athletics coach who was awarded Dronacharya award in 1985. He coached the well known Indian athlete P. T. Usha. He hails from Kerala state.
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P. T. Usha Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha (born 27 June 1964), popularly known as P. T. Usha, is a retired Indian track and field athlete. She has been associated with Indian athletics since 1979. She is often called the "queen of Indian track and field". She is nicknamed as the Payyoli Express. Currently she runs the Usha School of Athletics at Koyilandy in Kerala.
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Eliza Nelson Eliza Nelson, née Eliza Mendonca, is an Indian field hockey player and a former captain of the women's national field hockey team of India. Born in a Goan family on 27 September 1956 at Pune in the Indian state of Maharashtra, Nelson played for the Indian Railways and led the Indian national team that won the gold medal at the 9th Asian Games held at New Delhi in 1982. She was also a member of the team that secured fourth place at the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics. She received the Arjuna Award in 1981 and the Government of India awarded her the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1983.
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Babita Kumari Babita Kumari Phogat (born November 20, 1989) is an Indian female wrestler, who won the gold medal in 2014 Commonwealth Games. She also won a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships,
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Deepa Malik .30 September 1970) is an Indian athlete. She is the first Indian woman to win a medal in Paralympic Games and won a Silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the shot put. She has won accolades for her participation in various adventure sports. She is associated with Himalayan Motorsports Association (H.M.A.) and Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (F.M.S.C.I.). She has undertaken an 8-day, 1700-km drive in sub-zero temperatures which included a climb to 18000 feet. It was – Raid De Himalaya. This journey covers many difficult paths including remote Himalayas, Leh, Shimla and Jammu.
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Gamal Belal Salem Gamal Belal Salem (born Kipkemoi Katui on 12 September 1978 in Eldoret, Kenya) is a Qatari runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase, training with the world record holder Saif Saaeed Shaheen under the Italian coach Renato Canova.
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Mercy Kuttan Mercy Kuttan (born 1 January 1960) is a former Indian track and field athlete. She was the first Indian woman longjumper to cross six meters. In 1989, Mercy received Arjuna Award for her contribution to the Indian athletics.
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Monika Malik Monika Malik (born 5 November 1993) is an Indian field hockey player from Haryana who represented India in the 2014 Asian Games. She is currently employed with the Indian Railways.
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Kadambari Murali Kadambari Murali Wade (born 9 August 1975) the former sports journalist and former Editor-in-Chief of "Sports Illustrated India", is the only woman to have held that post at the "Hindustan Times". She joined SI India in November 2010, to direct the revamp of the monthly magazine beginning with its January 2011 issue. Her articles largely focus on cricket. She is the youngest national editor of a major news outlet. The first ever winner of the Sports Journalists Federation of India's Cricket Writer of the Year award in 2006, in August 2007, She also broke the story of the formation of the Indian cricket board's (BCCI) plans to create what would later be called the Indian Premier League (IPL) for cricket.
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Maxwell Trevor Maxwell Trevor is an Indian cyclist. Considered one of India's best cyclists, Trevor is a national record holder, winner of more than 250 medals and an eleven-time national track champion.
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Mary Kom Chungneijang Mery Kom Hmangte (born 24 November 1982), better known as Mary Kom, is an Olympic Indian boxer hailing from the Kom tribe in Manipur. She is a five-time World Amateur Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships. Nicknamed "Magnificent Mary", she is the only Indian woman boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning the bronze medal. She has also been ranked as No. 4 AIBA World Women's Ranking Flyweight category. She became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal in the Asian Games in 2014 in Incheon, South Korea.
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Dan Pfaff Dan Pfaff is a track and field (athletics) coach, who has coached national, world, and Olympic championship athletes.
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Bahadur Singh Chouhan Bahadur Singh Chouhan (born 8 February 1946) is a former Indian shot putter. Between 1973 and 1985 he won three gold, two silver and three bronze medals at the Asian Games and Championships. He placed 15th at the 1980 Summer Olympics, and was honoured with Arjuna award and Padma Shri. He is a recipient of Dronacharya Award, by the government of India. Presently he is working as the head coach of the Indian athletics team.
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Subhash Verma Subhash Verma is a retired Indian wrestler born on 15 July 1968 at village Malakpur, Baghpat, UP. Verma was trained at the Hanuman Akhara (wrestling school) of Delhi. He was a very famous pupil of Guru Hanuman. He had won Bharat Kesari (Very Popular Indian Style wrestling Tournament) title 15 times in his career. Now he runs his own Akhara to train young wrestler for India.
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List of Indian sportswomen This List of Indian Sportsmen includes the champion sports women that India has ever produced who bought laurels to their mother land by establishing records & winning titles on international stage.
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Robin Singh (cricketer) Robin Singh (born "Robindra Ramnarine Singh") is a former Indian cricketer who represented single Test and 136 ODI between 1989 and 2001 as an all-rounder. He has coached the Indian Premier League's Mumbai Indians since 2010 and the Caribbean Premier League's Barbados Tridents since 2013. He also coached the Deccan Chargers in the IPL's inaugural year. As a player, he was known for his agility and fitness.
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Gayathri Govindaraj Gayathry Govindharaj (born 27 April 1991) is an Indian athlete who competes in the 100 metres hurdles and Triple jump events. She is supported by Olympic Gold Quest, a not-for-profit foundation that identifies and supports Indian athletes.
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Pramila Rijal Pramila Rijal (Nepali: प्रमिला रिजाल ) (born 1 May 1985 in Chisapani) is a Nepalese track and field athlete who represented Nepal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 100 metres. She also competed at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships, running in the heats of the 200 metres and 400 metres.
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Sports Authority of India The Sports Authority of India (SAI) (Hindi: भारतीय खेल प्राधिकरण ) is an apex National Sports body set up in 1984 by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India for broad basing and bringing excellence in sports across India. It has 9 Regional Centres which are located at Bengaluru, Gandhinagar, Chandigarh,Kolkata, Imphal, Guwahati, Bhopal, Mumbai,Lucknow and Sonepat;and two Academic institutions viz. Netaji Subhash National Institute of Sports(NS NIS), Patiala and Laxmibai National College of Physical Education (LNCPE),Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala). Through NS NIS Patiala and some of the regional centres at Bengaluru, Kolkata and Thiruvananthapuram SAI offers a variety of courses in sports coaching and sports medicine and SAI LNCPE, Thiruvananthapuram conducts graduate and post-graduate courses in physical education.
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Valdivel Jayalakshmi Valdivel Jayalakshmi (born 5 August 1971) is an Indian sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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Morolake Akinosun Morolake Akinosun (born May 17, 1994) is an American track runner who participated in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and won gold at the 2015 Pan-American Games in Toronto in 4 x 100 meter with teammates Barbara Pierre, LaKeisha Lawson, Kaylin Whitney. She is only the second woman ever to score in four events at an NCAA Outdoor Championships in consecutive seasons. She is a four time NCAA 4 x 100 champion. Akinosun won a gold medal at the 2013 USA Junior Championships, placing first in the 100m (11.64).
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Duncan White Major Deshamanya Duncan White, MBE, ED (Sinhala: ඩන්කන් වයිට්) (1 March 1918 – 3 July 1998) was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) sportsman. He was the first Ceylonese athlete to win an Olympic medal, winning silver in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. He was also the only South Asian to have won an Olympic medal in track and field for more than fifty years, until Susanthika Jayasinghe won a silver medal in the 200 metres in 2000.