Nirmala Sheoran

Nirmala Sheoran
Nirmala Sheoran (middle) in Bhubaneswar 2017
nation	India
birthday	15th July 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Bhiwani , Haryana , India
size	172 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	51.48 s
Trainer	Vijender Singh
status	active
Medal table
Asian Championships 3 × 0 × 0 ×
Asian Championships gold Pune 2013 4 × 400 m
last change: June 25, 2020

Nirmala Sheoran (born July 15, 1995 in Bhiwani , Haryana ) is an Indian sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Athletic career

Nirmala Sheoran gained her first international experience at the 2013 Asian Championships in Pune , where she finished seventh in the 400 meter final. In addition, she won the gold medal in the Indian 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 32.26 minutes. With the relay she then took part in the World Championships in Moscow and was eliminated there with 3: 38.81 min in the preliminary round. In 2016 she qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was eliminated in the first round with 53.03 s . Even with the season she could not qualify for the final with 3: 29.53 min . In 2017 she won the gold medal in the individual competition as well as with the Indian relay at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar in 52.01 seconds. She received a bye for the World Championships in London , where she was eliminated with 53.07 s in the semifinals . With the relay she was disqualified in advance .

In 2018 she took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the first time , finishing fourth there with 52.96 s. In October 2019, she was banned from the Athletics Integrity Unit for four years for taking the banned substance drostanolone , and her results were canceled between August 15, 2016 and November 21, 2018.

Personal best

• 400 meters: 51.48 s, July 1, 2016 in Hyderabad
• 800 meters: 2: 12.13 min, October 28, 2012 in Lucknow

Web links

Commons : Nirmala Sheron  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nirmala Sheoran in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Nirmala Sheoran in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )