Sanjivani Jadhav

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Sanjivani Jadhav
Women 5000M Bronze Medalist Sanjivani Jadhav.jpg
at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships
Personal information
NationalityIndian
Born (1996-07-12) 12 July 1996 (age 25)
Nashik, India
EducationUniversity of Pune[1]
Height1.54 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight38 kg (84 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event(s)5000 m, 10,000 m
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  India
Asian Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Bhubaneswar 5000 m
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
Silver medal – second place 2017 Ashgabat 3000 m
Universiade
Silver medal – second place 2017 Taipei 10000m
Asian Cross Country Championships
Bronze medal – third place Senior Race
Asian Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Taipei 3000m
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Doha

Sanjivani Baburao Jadhav (born 12 July 1996) is an Indian long-distance athlete at 5000m and 10,000m. In 2019 she was banned from competition after probenecid was found in routine tests and a bronze medal from the 2019 Asian Athletics Championships was withdrawn.[2] She had won a bronze medal at 5000m at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships.

Life[]

Jadhav was born in Nashik which is a city in Maharashtra.[3] She attended where she combined her ambition for sport with that of becoming a civil servant.[4] She was identified as an outstanding athlete and supported by SportsNest who nurture sports athletes. In 2013 she won three medals at the 1st Asian School Athletics Meet. She came second in the 2016 Delhi marathon.[3]

She is coached by Vijender Singh who trained Kavita Raut. In 2017 she won a bronze medal at the Asian Athletic games in Odisha during the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 5000 metres.[5] She was fifth in the Women's 10,000 metre at the same event. In 2018 she took a bronze medal in the 8 km event as part of the Asian Cross Country Championships in Guiyang. The gold and silver were taken by Li Dan of China and Japanese .[6]

Sanjivani received the in 2018. In 2019 she was banned from competition after the masking agent probenecid was found in routine tests in 2018. Her 10,000m bronze medal from the 2019 Doha Asian championships was withdrawn.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ 2017 Universiade bio
  2. ^ a b Y.B.Sarangi. "Sanjivani gets two-year doping ban, to lose her Asian medal". Sportstar. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  3. ^ a b "Athletes". sportsnest.org. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
  4. ^ "Silver-winning Sanjeevani Jadhav from Maharashtra at Olympiad wants to become civil servant". dna. 2013-12-08. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
  5. ^ "Sanjivani Jadhav: Another middle-distance star emerges from Nashik". The Indian Express. 2017-07-07. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
  6. ^ "Sanjeevani Jadhav wins bronze in Asian Cross Country Championship". Hindustan Times. 2018-03-15. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
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