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Nationality
  
India

Sport
  
Running

Name
  
PU Chitra


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Born
  
9 June 1995 (age 28) (
1995-06-09
)
Palakkad, Kerala, India

Event(s)
  
1500 metres,3000 metres,5000 metres

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Chithra PU (born 9 June 1995 at Mundur, Palakkad District, Kerala) is an Indian track and field athlete from the state of Kerala. She has won many state, national and international school meet gold medals in middle and long distance track events.

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Chitra won the Gold Medal in 1500m at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneshwar with a time of 4.17.92 seconds to seal a World Championships place and earning the tag "Queen of Asia in the mile". The previous year she won gold medals in the 1500m, 3000m, 5000m race and 3 km cross country in 59th Indian National School Games, Ranchi, Orissa

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Other Achievements

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2017 - Won gold medal in 1500m race in 5th Asian Indore and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG), held at Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

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2017 - Won gold medal in 1500m race in 22nd Asian Athletic Championship and recorded her best time 4.17.92

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2016- Won gold medal in 1500m race in 12th South Asian Games. Time: 4:25.59

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2013 - Won gold medal in 3000m race in the first ever Asian school athletic meet, She reached the finishing point in 10:05:22

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2013 - Won gold medal in 1500m, 3000m, 5000m race and 3 km cross country in 58th Indian National School Games, Etawah, UP

2013 - Won gold medal in 1500m, 3000m and 5000m race in 57th Kerala State School Games, Ernakulam

2012 - Won gold medal in 1500m, 3000m and 5000m race in 56th Kerala State School Games, Trivandrum

2011 - Won gold medal in 1500m, 3000m, 5000m race and bronze in 3 km cross country in 56th Indian National School Games, Pune, Maharashtra

Personal life

Chithra is the third of four children of Unnikrishan & Vasantha Kumari, both agricultural labourers from Kerala. She is an undergraduate student. She did her schooling in Mundur Higher Secondary School in Palakkad. She has been awarded Tata Nano cars by the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council and the Government of Kerala for her remarkable achievements in the school meets.

A controversy emerged immediately after Athletic Federation of India has rejected her entry for Word Athletic Meet 2017 (London). Kerala High Court has directed the federations for her inclusion, however it was rejected due to cutoff time. Chitra received overwhelming support from all sections of public for her fight against Athletic Federation. As it turned out, 40 out of 44 athletes who participated in the heats of the 1500m event at the World Championship finished with times at least three seconds better than Chitra's personal best time of 4:17.92.

References

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