Country India Height 1.77 m | Sport Track and field Weight 64 kg | |
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Born 31 December 1996 (age 20) ( 1996-12-31 ) Tiruppur district, Tamil Nadu, India Personal best(s) 400 m: 48.24 seconds (Bangalore 2013)
400 m hurdles: 50.51 seconds (Bangalore 2016) Events 400 metres, 400 metres hurdles | ||
Ayyasamy dharun hails from tiruppur will achieve in rio olympics 2016 azhagesan coach
Ayyasamy Dharun (born 31 December 1996) is an Indian athlete who specialises in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles events. He has qualified for the 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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- Ayyasamy dharun hails from tiruppur will achieve in rio olympics 2016 azhagesan coach
- Early life
- Career
- References
Early life
Dharun was born on 31 December 1996 in a village called Ravuthampalayam near Avinashi in Tiruppur district. When he was in fourth grade, his father died of tuberculosis. Dharun's mother is a school teacher while his sister Sathya plays volleyball for Tamil Nadu.
Dharun studied B. A. at the Alva's College of Arts in Moodabidri, Karnataka. He represented Tamil Nadu at kho kho before switching to athletics in tenth grade.
Career
Dharun won the 400 metres hurdles gold medal at the 2016 South Asian Games in Guwahati with a time of 50.54 seconds, finishing 0.03 seconds ahead of fellow Indian Jithin Paul whom he overtook at the last hurdle.
In July 2016, Dharun was part of the relay team that broke the national 4 × 400 metres relay at Bangalore and qualified for the Olympics. The quartet of Dharun, Mohammad Anas, Kunhu Muhammed and Arokia Rajiv clocked 3:00:91, rewriting the national record of 3:02.17 set by themselves four weeks earlier in Turkey. The performance also helped the relay team jump to 13th place in the world rankings. It was the third time a men's relay team from India qualified for the Olympics, after 1964 and 2000.