PT Usha IOA President: PT Usha becoming first woman IOA President: “I never thought I would one day become IOA president,” track and field legend PT Usha said after she was elected as the first woman head of the Indian Olympic Association on Saturday. (More Sports News) Usha, 58, was officially elected for the top post during the polls, heralding a new chapter in Indian sports administration. Follow latest Sports news &updates with InsideSport.IN
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“In my whole life, I had lived just 13 years without sports. Otherwise, I have been living with sports, as an athlete, coach and administrator in different roles,” she said while addressing a press conference after her elevation to the top job.
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“I had never thought that I would one day become IOA chief or member of Parliament. This is all because of my sport,” she said with her entire executive council members by her side. Usha took to athletics at the young age of nine while she was studying in class four at a school in Payyoli near her native village in Kozhikode district of Kerala
What followed was a stellar career during which she won multiple Asian Games gold medals and achieved a fourth-place finish in the 1984 Olympics 400m hurdles final. She announced her retirement in 1990, got married and returned to the tracks again in 1994 before finally quitting athletics in 2000.
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That initial nine years of her childhood and four years between 1990 and 1994 was the 13 years she was referring to. After 2000, she remained associated with athletics as mentor to promising athletes at her academy — Usha School of Athletics. She is currently the chairperson of its junior selection committee. She has also served in national award committees of the government.
PT Usha IOA President: Olympic medallist Gagan Narang happy with PT Usha becoming first woman IOA President, says ‘Couldn’t have a better president at helm’
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