Hima Das

Hima Das
Hima Das in Tampere 2018
nation	India
birthday	9th January 2000 (age 20)
place of birth	Dhing , Assam , India
size	156 cm
Weight	52 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	50.79 s
Trainer	Galina Bucharina
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 2 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Asian Games gold Jakarta 2018 4 × 400 m gold Jakarta 2018 4 × 400 m mixed silver Jakarta 2018 400 m  Junior World Championships gold Tampere 2018 400 m
last change: April 22, 2019

Hima Das (born January 9, 2000 in Dhing , Assam ) is an Indian sprinter who specializes in the 400 meter run .

Athletic career

Hima Das gained her first international experience at the 2017 Asian Youth Championships in Bangkok , where she finished seventh in the 200 meter final. She then took part in the Youth World Championships in Nairobi and was there in 24.39 s fifth. In 2018 she took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time , where she finished sixth in the 400 meter final in 51.32 seconds and seventh in the Indian 4 x 400 meter relay. Then she won the U20 World Championships in Tampere, Finland in 51.46 s superior to the gold medal in front of the Romanian Andrea Miklós and retired with the Indian relay in the first round. At the end of August, at the Asian Games in Jakarta , she won the silver medal over 400 meters behind the Bahraini Salwa Eid Naser and ahead of the Kazakh Elina Michina with a new Indian record of 50.79 seconds . In addition, she won the Indian relay before Bahrain and Vietnam. In the mixed relay, which was held for the first time, she won the silver medal behind Bahrain. In 2019 the Bahraini relay team was disqualified for a doping offense and awarded the gold medal to India. The following year, she could not finish her 400 meter run at the Asian Championships in Doha .

In 2017 the Indian became champion in the 200-meter run.

Personal best

• 200 meters: 23.10 s (0.0 m / s), June 27, 2018 in Guwahati
• 400 meters: 50.79 s, August 26, 2018 in Jakarta ( Indian record )

Web links

Commons : Hima Das  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hima That in the database of World Athletics (English)