Anju Bobby George
Anju Bobby George (born 19 April 1977) is a retired
Indian athlete. Anju Bobby George made history when she won the bronze medal in
long jump at the
2003 World Championships in Athletics in
Paris. With this achievement, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in a
World Championships in Athletics jumping . She went on to win the gold medal at the
IAAF World Athletics Final (a competition between best eight athletes in the world based on the world ranking) in 2005, a performance she considers her best. Anju was upgraded to the gold status from silver in the 2005 World Athletics Final in Monte Carlo following the disqualification of Tatyana Kotova of Russia by the International Association of Athletics Federations, following the recent re-testing of the latter's sample collected at the 2005 World Championship in Helsinki. She was awarded the
Arjuna Award in 2002,
Khel Ratna in 2003 and
Padma Shri in 2004. She had got 5th position with personal best of at the
2004 Athens Olympics. In March 2021, Anju won the
BBC lifetime achievement award for best athlete in India. She is also the current vice-president of the
Athletics Federation of India.
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