Adille Sumariwalla

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Adille J. Sumariwalla
Vice-President of Indian Olympic Association
Assumed office
14 December 2017
Personal details
Born (1958-01-01) 1 January 1958 (age 63)
India India
NationalityIndian

Adille Sumariwalla (born 1 January 1958) is an Indian athlete and entrepreneur, popular for representing India at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.[1] Sumariwalla competed as a 100m runner in several international competitions and at the Olympics. Currently, he is the president of the Athletics Federation of India, and was elected as one of the members of council of IAAF at its 50th congress, thus becoming the first Indian to do so.[2] He is also an entrepreneur and owns many media businesses in India, after tenures at some media companies including the American Media Company.

Athletics[]

Sumariwalla has been an athlete since his school days. He had set the men's 200m inter college record, at a mere 22.2 seconds and held it for 35 years, until recently Gaurang Amre broke the record, clocking at 21.7 seconds. He expressed gladness as the record was broken, but at the same time expressed concern over the time taken to break the record, quoting these records should be broken "every two or three years".[3] He has won the national title in 100m sprint 11 times.[4] Sumariwalla represented India at the 1980 summer olympics as a hundred-meter sprinter, in which he stood seventh in round one.[5] He has been the Chef-de-Mission for the Indian contingent, for the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea.[6] Sumariwalla is of the opinion that there has been great increase in infrastructure for sports by the government in recent years, and has quoted that "The day is not far when India can expect an Olympics Medal in Athletics".[7] He has also been quoted as saying "If athletes do not perform well in the Olympics, we will take action against them."[8]

Entrepreneurship[]

Apart from athletics, Sumariwalla has been a part of many media businesses and corporations. He started his professional career with Tata Engineering and locomotive co. (now Tata Motors). He worked there for 15 years in various domains, after which he was appointed as the founding CEO of The Asian Age in 1994. He has since worked with many other corporations, notably Mid Day Multimedia and Clear Channel. He was responsible for setting up the outdoor division at Mid Day in 1997, which then merged its tasks with Clear Channel. After leaving Clear Channel, after serving eight years as a chairman and managing director, he left the company and has later been on the board of Next Media Works and SE TransStadia Ltd.[9][10] He is also a co-founder of Interspace Communications.[11][12]

References[]

  1. ^ "Marching behind tricolour was a great feeling". Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  2. ^ "AFI president elected IAAD council member". Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Gaurang Amre breaks Sumariwallas record".
  4. ^ "Official bearers Athletics Federation of India".
  5. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Adille Sumariwalla". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
  6. ^ "AFI president Sumariwala to be Chef-de-Mission for Asian Games - The Hindu".
  7. ^ "AFI President Adille Sumariwalla : The day is not far when India can expect olympic medal in Athletics". Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  8. ^ "Athletics Federation of India to take action against under-performers at Tokyo Olympics". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Adille Sumariwalla bids adieu to Clear Channel".
  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ^ "Business News Live, Share Market News - Read Latest Finance News, IPO, Mutual Funds News".
  12. ^ "About | Next Mediaworks Ltd (NEXTMEDIA) Company".

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