SHOOTING STARS

Beating all odds, these sportspersons went on to taste success

BREAKING BARRIERS PT Usha

At 18, she won silver in 100m, 200m at the 1982 Asian Games. She narrowly missed bronze in 400m hurdles at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

KM Beenamol

She won three medals, including gold in 800m at the Asian junior meet in 1992. During the 2000 Sydney Olympics, she reached the 400m semis. In the 2002 Asian Games, she won three medals, two of them gold, in 800m and 4x400m relay.

Anju Bobby George

She became the first Indian to win a medal (bronze) in the 2003 World Championship.

She finished fifth in the 2004 Athens

Olympics and won gold in the 2005

World Athletics

Final.

UNSTEADY GRAPH Seema Antil

She claimed bronze in discus at the 2002 Junior World Championship. Though she won gold at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, her performance the Olympics and World Championship hasn’t been encoura

Beant Singh

The middle-distance runner from Haryana shot to fame when he won gold at the Asian Youth Championship in 2015. The 19-year-old Olympic hopeful suffered a setback because of overtraining. He is yet to make an impression.

OLYMPIC HOPEFULS Tejaswin Shankar

The 19-old-year high jumper also holds the senior national record of 2.26m. He is hopeful of raising the bar further in the 2018 season

Neeraj Chopra

In 2016, the javelin thrower set a world record of 86.48m on way to gold in the U-20 World Championship. He went on to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.

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