Swapna Barman

Swapna Barman
Swapna Barman in Bhubaneswar 2017
nation	India
birthday	29th October 1996 (age 23)
place of birth	Jalpaiguri , West Bengal , India
size	161 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	High jump , heptathlon
Best performance	1.87 m, 6026 points
Trainer	Subhash Sarkar
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × U20 Asian Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Games gold Jakarta 2018 6026 points Asian Championships gold Bhubaneswar 2017 5942 points silver Doha 2019 5993 points Junior Asian Championships silver Taipei 2014 4962 points
last change: May 12, 2019

Swapna Barman (* 29. October 1996 in Jalpaiguri , West Bengal ) is an Indian athlete, referring to the heptathlon specializes.

Athletic career

Swapna Barman's first international competition was the 2014 Junior Asian Championships in Taipei , where she won the silver medal with 4962 points. At the Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea , she was fifth with 5178 points. In 2016 she finished eighth in the high jump at the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha with 1.70 m and seventh in the pentathlon with 3285 points. A year later she was crowned continental champion at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with a new high of 5942 points and therefore received a bye for the World Championships in London in August. There she reached 5431 points and finished 26th .

In 2018 she again took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta , where she won the gold medal in front of the Chinese Wang Qingling with a new personal best of 6026 points . The following year she won the silver medal behind the Uzbek Yekaterina Voronina at the Asian Championships in Doha with 5993 points .

Personal

Barman was born with twelve toes and suffers from tight shoes during competitions as there are no custom-made shoes for her. She is a student teacher for physical education at the University of Calcutta .

Personal best

• Heptathlon: 6026 points, August 29, 2018 in Jakarta
  • Pentathlon (hall): 3285 points, February 19, 2016 in Doha
• High jump: 1.87 m, June 3, 2017 in Patiala
  • High jump (hall): 1.78 m, February 19, 2016 in Doha

Web links

Commons : Swapna Barman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Swapna Barman in the database of World Athletics (English)