Rupal Chaudhary
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Rupal Chaudhury (born 23 December 2004) is an Indian sprinter.[1]
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| Birth name | Rupal Chaudhury | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 December 2004 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 400m: 51.85 (Cali, 2022) 400m hurdles: 59.30 (Bhubaneshwar, 2022) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
She comes from Shahpur Jainpur village in the Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh.[2]
Career
In 2022, Rapul defeated pre-race favourite Priya Mohan to win the women's 400m at the Indian National U-20 Federation Cup Athletics Championships.[2] Later that year, she was a bronze medalist at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia in the 400 metres, setting a new personal best time of 51.85 seconds.[3] At the same event she also won silver in the Mixed 4x400m relay in an Asian U20 record time.[4] In doing so, she became the first Indian athlete to win two medals at the World U-20 Athletics Championships.[5]
She suffered a knee injury which ruled her out of the entire 2023 season.[6]
She ran as part of the Indian 4x400m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics, in Nassau, Bahamas in May 2024.[7][8]
References
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