Jisna Mathew

Jisna Mathew
Jisna Mathew (r.) In Bhubaneswar 2017
nation	India
birthday	7th January 1999 (age 21)
place of birth	Kerala , India
size	155 cm
Career
discipline	sprint
status	active
Medal table
Asian Championships 1 × 1 × 1 × U20 Asian Championships 3 × 1 × 1 × U18 Asian Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Championships silver Wuhan 2015 4 × 400 m gold Bhubaneswar 2017 4 × 400 m bronze Bhubaneswar 2017 400 m Junior Asian Championships gold Ho Chi Minh City 2016 400 m gold Ho Chi Minh City 2016 4 × 400 m gold Gifu 2018 400 m silver Gifu 2018 4 × 400 m bronze Gifu 2018 200 m Youth Asian Championships silver Doha 2015 400 m
last change: November 17, 2019

Jisna Mathew (born January 7, 1999 ) is an Indian athlete who specializes in the 400 meter run . She also starts in the 4 x 400 meter relay .

Athletic career

Jisna Mathew gained her first international experience in 2015 at the Youth Asian Championships in Doha , where she won the silver medal behind Bahraini Salwa Eid Naser in 53.84 seconds . She then took part with the Indian 4 x 400 meter relay at the Asian Championships in Wuhan , where she won the silver medal behind the team from China in 3: 33.81 minutes. She also got a starting place in the relay for the World Championships in the  National Stadium  in  Beijing and started together with Tintu Lukka , MR Poovamma and Debasree Majumdar . Despite the season best of 3: 29.08 min, the season was eliminated in the preliminary run . Then she won the silver medal over 400 meters at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia in 53.14 s. In the following year she won the Junior Asian Championships in Ho Chi Minh City in 53.85 s over 400 meters and in 3: 43.57 min with the relay. She qualified for the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz , where she was disqualified in the individual competition in the preliminary round and eliminated with the relay with 3: 45.07 min in the preliminary round. In 2017, she won the gold medal at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar in 3: 31.34 minutes and secured the bronze medal over 400 meters in 53.32 seconds behind her compatriot Nirmala Sheoran and Quách Thị Lan from Vietnam. With the relay, she then took part again in the World Championships in the London Stadium together with MR Poovamma, Nirmala Sheoran and Anilda Thomas and was eliminated in advance by disqualification. The following year she won again at the Junior Asian Championships in Gifu in 53.26 s and won the silver medal behind the Japanese women in 3: 41.11 min. In addition, she secured the bronze medal in the 200-meter run in 24.48 seconds . At the U20 World Championships in Tampere she reached the semi-finals in the individual competition and was eliminated there with 53.86 s. With the season she did not reach the final in 3: 39.10 minutes.

In 2019 she reached the finals of the mixed relay at the World Championships in Doha, where she finished seventh in 3: 15.77 minutes. With the women's relay, however, she was eliminated with 3: 29.42 minutes in the lead.

Personal best

• 200 meters: 23.98 s, December 16, 2017 in Mangalagiri
• 400 meters: 52.65 s, May 15, 2017 in New Delhi

Web links

Commons : Jisna Mathew  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jisna Mathew in the database of World Athletics (English)