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Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha (born 27 June 1964) is an Indian sports administrator and retired track and field athlete. Usha was born in Koothali near Perambra in Kozhikode district, Kerala. She grew up in Payyoli.
PT Usha - Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha to use her full name - is one of India's greatest athletes, often called the country's "queen of track and field". A graceful sprinter with long strides, she dominated Asian track-and-field events for most of the 1980s, winning 23 medals in all, 14 of which were gold.
Dec 11, 2022 · The 58-year-old Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha – for short – is recognised as a phenom in Indian athletics and came onto the scene during the 1980s. Later, she became active as a coach and member of sports administration and was nominated as a Rajya Sabha MP in 2022 by the central government.
PT Usha, also known as the 'Golden Girl' of Indian athletics, is one of the most decorated athletes in Indian history. She won 11 medals at the Asian Games, 23 medals at the Asian Athletics Championships, and held several national and Asian records in sprint events.
PT Usha is a legendary Indian sprinter who won over a hundred international medals and set several national records. She was the first Indian woman to compete in the 400m hurdles at the Olympics and narrowly missed a bronze in Los Angeles 1984.
From her travel travails in Pakistan as a teenager to why she was terrified of running against the Russians as a 16-year-old at the Moscow Olympics and the heartbreak at the 1984 Games where she ...
Learn about the life and achievements of P.T. Usha, the first Indian woman to enter an Olympic final and the queen of Indian track and field for two decades. She won multiple medals in Asian Games and World Junior Championships, and set national records in 200m and 400m hurdles.
