Annu Rani

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Annu Rani
India's Anu Rani, Javelin Throw Bronze Medalist.jpg
Rani during 22nd Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar
Personal information
Nationality India
Born (1992-08-28) 28 August 1992 (age 29)
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb) (2014)
Sport
SportTrack and field
Event(s)Javelin throw
TeamIndia
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)63.24 meters
(2021) NR
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  India
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Incheon Javelin
Asian Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Bhubaneswar Javelin
Silver medal – second place 2019 Doha Javelin
South Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Guwahati Javelin

Annu Rani (born 28 August 1992) is an Indian javelin thrower from Bahadurpur, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. She was the 1st Indian to reach the finals of women's javelin throw event in the World Athletics Championships, Doha, 2019.[1] Annu had qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics through world rankings after missing out on the Olympic Qualification mark. Her career best effort is 63.24m which helped her win the gold in the National Interstate Athletic Championship, Patiala, 2021.[2]

Personal life and background[]

Rani was born on 28 August 1992 in an agricultural family in Bahadurpur village in Uttar Pradesh .Her talent was identified by her brother, Upendra, who noticed her upper body strength during a cricket game. He began to train her by asking her to hurl sugarcane sticks in an empty field. Annu's first javelin stick was one that she crafted herself from a long piece of bamboo, because she couldn't afford one. Her brother later began to pay for her training as well, despite her father's disapproval at girls pursuing sports. He finally came around to supporting Annu's talent after she proved herself by breaking the national record in 2014, and now supports her ambition.[3][4]

Professional achievements[]

Annu Rani was initially coached by Kashinath Naik and is now coached by Baljeet Singh.[5]

In the 2014 National Inter-State Athletics Championship in Lucknow, Rani won the gold medal with a throw of 58.83 metres – thus breaking a 14-year-old national record. This enabled her to qualify for the 2014 Commonwealth Games with the selection criteria being a throw of 58.46 metres. Later in the year, she won the bronze medal with a throw of 59.53 metres at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. Two years later, she broke her own record again at the National Inter-state Athletics Championship with a throw of 60.01 metres and crossed the 60-metre barrier for the first time.[6] In March 2019, she broke her own record again with a throw of 62.34 meters at the National Senior Athletics Championships in Patiala, Punjab.[7]

Her most recent achievements include her silver medal win in the women's javelin throw event at the 23rd Asian Athletics Championships in Qatar on 21 April 2019, which enabled her to qualify for the finals in the World Athletics Championship, thhelping her in us becoming the first Indian woman javelin thrower to participate in World Athletics Championship,[8] and her bronze medal win at IAAF World Challenge event called Ostrava Golden Spike Athletics Meet, held in Ostrava, Czech Republic.[9]

She won the Sportstar Aces Sportswoman of the Year Award in Athletics in 2020.[8] She bagged the gold medal in the women's javelin throw event at the 59th National Open Athletics Championship.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Annu Rani qualifies for javelin throw finals with national record effort". India Today. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Tokyo 2020: India's women Javelin thrower Annu Rani secures Olympics quota through world rankings". India Today. 1 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Annu Rani's Quest For Gold – Impact Guru". impactguru.com. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  4. ^ Nikhil (27 June 2017). "Annu Rani – The Torchbearer for Indian Women in Athletics Javelin Throw". Voice of Indian Sports. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  5. ^ Srivastava, Shantanu (13 May 2020). "Annu Rani confident of breaching Olympic qualification mark, calls for resumption of outdoor training". Firstpost. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Annu Rani – The Torchbearer for Indian Women in Athletics Javelin Throw". Voice of Indian Sports – KreedOn. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  7. ^ "Fed Cup athletics: Annu Rani rewrites her own Javelin Throw national record, qualifies for Worlds". Scroll.in. Press Trust of India. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  8. ^ a b Rayan, Stan. "Annu Rani wins Sportstar Aces 2020 Sportswoman of the Year in athletics". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  9. ^ "Javelin: Bronze for Annu Rani at IAAF event". Sportstar. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  10. ^ "National Open Athletics Championship: Annu Rani wins gold, Neeraj Chopra pulls out". India Today. 10 October 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2021.

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