Anju Bobby George
Anju Bobby George , Malayalam അഞ്ജു ബോബി ജോർജ്ജ് (* 19 April 1977 in Changanasseri , Kerala as Anju Markose ) is an Indian athlete .
Life
At the Asian Games in 2002 she won gold in the long jump and was fourth in the triple jump . In the same year she won bronze in the long jump at the 2002 Commonwealth Games . At the World Indoor Championships in 2003 , she was seventh. In the summer she won the bronze medal at the world championships with 6.70 meters. This was India's first track and field medal in a global competition since Norman Pritchard won two silver medals at the 1900 Olympic Games .
At the 2004 Olympic Games , she set her personal best with 6.83 meters and came in sixth. At the 2005 World Championships she was fifth. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she was sixth. At the 2005 World Athletics Finals in Monte Carlo, she won the silver medal with a jump of 6.75 m. The then winner Tatiana Kotowa (6.83 m) from Russia was convicted of fraud by a subsequent doping test of her blood sample from the 2005 World Championships and suspended by the IAAF 2013. As a result, Anju Bobby George was subsequently awarded the gold medal.
Her best performance in the triple jump is 13.67 meters.
In 2003 she received the Arjuna Award and in 2004 the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna , the highest state honor for athletes in India. In 2004 she was also awarded the Padma Shri civil order .
At a height of 1.77, her competition weight is 62 kg. She has been married to the triple jumper Bobby George since 2001.
literature
- Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2006. The international Track and Field Annual. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2006, ISBN 1-899807-34-9 .
Web links
- Anju Bobby George in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Brief portrait on webindia123.com (engl.)
- Anju - A Star on the Rise ( Memento from February 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), article by M. Velayudhan Kutty in Kerala Calling, October 2003 (PDF file; 292 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2005 World Athletics: Kotova disqualified, Anju's silver turns into gold in The Times of India of January 14, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bobby George, Anju |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Markose, Anju |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Changanasseri , Kerala |