Pt usha

FOR the generation growing up in India in the Eighties, there was nothing as exhilarating and mesmerising than watching Payyoli Tevaraparampil Usha take off the blocks like a gazelle. Such was the speed, grace and charisma of PT Usha, who notched up five medals in the 1986 Asian Games, including four gold medals. Usha, born in Payyoli, Kozhikode district of Kerala, remained the ‘Queen of track and field’ for almost two decades. She was arguably India’s first sports icon, who was an inspiration to people across the nook and corner of India, cutting across gender, generation and professional boundaries. Fondly called the ‘Payyoli Express’ for her awesome speed (much before encomiums like ‘Rawalpindi Express’ for Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar and ‘Indian Express’ for India’s tennis duo stars of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi came into vogue), Usha became a trend-setter for women in India who took to excelling in sports. She is probably the first Indian sports icon who returned to track and field after taking a hiatus from the sport following her marriage in 1991. The ‘Payyoli Express’ hit the limelight as a junior athlete in the National Inter-State Meet at Kollam, Kerala, in 1978. However, her international debut in the 1980 Moscow Olympics proved lacklustre. In the 1982 New Delhi Asiad, Usha bagged a silver medal in the 100m and the 200m, but at the Asian Track and Field Championship in Kuwait a year later, Usha bagged the gold in the 400m with a new Asian record. F...

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Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha has asserted that though the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections will take place soon, while the priority is to hold trials for upcoming competitions. Since January, a number of Indian wrestlers – including Olympic bronze medallists Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Vinesh Phogat – have accused WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment and intimidation . The wrestlers have been protesting to seek his removal from the national sports federation. MORE: The IOA accordingly formed an ad hoc committee to look after the affairs of the WFI, and also put forward a 45-day deadline within which new elections were to be held for the federation. The ad hoc committee of Bhupender Singh Bajwa, the Wushu Association of India president, and national rifle coach Suma Shirur took charge on May 4, but still await the IOA to announce the name of a retired High Court judge as a returning officer for the elections. While the elections are to take place with a June 17 deadline, Usha asserted that the elections aren’t the priority. MORE: Take my medals back, says Olympian Bajrang Punia “The kids are our priority and we needed to send teams to the Under-15 and Under-20 Asian wrestling championships,” she told The New Indian Express. “We conducted open trials where more than 2500 wrestlers participated. I personally wanted to see the trials and went to Sonepat. I must say it is being cond...

Biography PT Usha - Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha to use her full name - is one of India's greatest athletes, often called the country's "queen of track and field". A graceful sprinter with long strides, she dominated Asian track-and-field events for most of the 1980s, winning 23 medals in all, 14 of which were gold. She was a crowd favourite wherever she raced. Long after her successful career as an athlete, PT Usha was elected as the president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) in 2022 at the age of 58. She is the first woman president of the IOA in its 95-year history and the first Olympian appointed as IOA president. Born in the village of Kuttali in Kerala, PT Usha studied in nearby Payyoli - which later gave rise to her nickname ‘The Payyoli Express’ - and her natural talent was discovered when she was nine. At a school race, the fourth-grade student effortlessly went on to beat the school champion, three years her senior. It astonished the teachers and her abilities over the next few years earned her a place in one of the first batches of sport-oriented schools the Kerala government had set up. PT Usha continued to dominate state and national meets and at 16 years old, became the then youngest sprinter to represent India at the Olympics, when she was included in the contingent for the 1980 Games in Moscow. Usha did not qualify for the final then but in the 1982 Asian Games, broke through to the conscience of Indian audiences when she won silver in both 100...

P. T. Usha’s signature Journey of Becoming the Golden Girl of India Since childhood, P. T. Usha was interested in sports and always loved to run and jump over the fences while playing with her siblings. While she was in school, her PT teacher asked her to participate in the school’s athletic competition. P. T. Usha (standing in the middle) on winning an athletic competition in her teens In 1976, she was spotted by the Indian athletics coach O. M. Nambiar, who decided to train Usha professionally. In an interview, while sharing the memories, with Usha, Nambiar said, I first saw Usha in 1976 during the Payyoli school annual sports meet where I was the guest to distribute the prize. What impressed me at first sight about Usha was her lean shape and fast walking style. I knew she could become a very good sprinter. She was different from others in the sports school and was very punctual. I lived near her house and therefore I had lots of time to train her. The results were quick.” An old picture of P. T. Usha with her coach O. M. Nambiar In the same year, the Kerala State Government started a sports school for women in Kannur, Kerala. Usha joined the school and started her professional training in athletics under her coach O. M. Nambiar. At that time, she was in class 8 and was among the first batch of the school. Considering her performance in athletics, the Kerala Government then awarded her a scholarship of Rs 250 pm. She came into the limelight with the National School Game...

New Delhi: Nominated Rajya Sabha MP PT Usha at Parliament House during the ongoing Monsoon Session, in New Delhi, (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore) 7 things to know about PT Usha: > PT Usha was born June 27, 1964, in a small village in Kerala's Kozhikode district. She has been associated with Indian athletics since she was 15 years old and is fondly nicknamed 'Payyoli Express' for her powerful sprinting ability and also 'Queen of Indian track-and-field'. >Her talent was spotted by athletics coach OM Nambiar, who began training her and, after collecting a big handful of medals (mostly gold) at national-level events, in 1982 won silver at the 100m and 200m events at the Asian Games in Delhi. > In the 1983 Asian Championships in Kuwait she won her first international gold - in the 400m - and also picked up another 200m silver. > In the 1984 Olympics in the United States, she tragically missed winning India's first medal in a track-and-field event after a photo-finish showed she finished fourth in the 400m hurdles by 1/100 second. > PT Usha won 18 gold medals for India at international events between 1983 and 1998; the last was in the 4x100m relay at the Asian Championships in Japan. She also won 13 silver medals and three bronze medals. > Among her achievements is participating in the setting of the national 4x100m relay record at the 1998 Asian Championships, with Valdivel Jayalakshmi, Rachita Mistry and EB Shyla. > PT Usha was awarded the Padma Shri in 1985, and also received honor...