UP farmer’s daughter Rupal Chaudhary turns into first Indian to win twin medals at World U-20 Athletics

Rupal Chaudhary created historical past by changing into the primary Indian athlete to win two medals on the World U20 Athletics Championship as she adopted up her 4x400m relay silver with a bronze medal within the ladies’s 400m right here.

Hailing from a household with modest means, her father being a small time farmer in Shahpur Jainpur village in UP’s Meerut district, the 17-year-old has been in unbelievable kind having run as many as 4 400m races in simply three days.

Rupal clocked 51.85 seconds to complete third behind Yemi Mary John (51.50) of Great Britain and Damaris Mutunga (51.71) of Kenya on Thursday night time.On Tuesday, she had gained a silver as a part of the 4x400m relay quartet that completed second behind USA with an Asian junior file time of three:17.76s.

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Yemi Mary John 🇬🇧 storms to a private better of 51.50 and claims the 400m crown!#WorldAthleticsU20 pic.twitter.com/aulNekr19S

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 5, 2022

On the identical day, she ran her particular person 400m first spherical warmth earlier than that includes within the semi-finals on Wednesday and remaining on Thursday. She ran her private finest time twice within the championships, first a 52.27s in semi-finals earlier than bettering it within the remaining.

Earlier this 12 months, Rupal shocked pre-race favorite Priya Mohan of Karnataka to clinch the gold medal within the ladies’s 400m on the National U-20 Federation Cup Athletics Championships right here on Friday.Rupal is the second Indian to have gained a medal within the ladies’s 400m after Hima Das clinched a historic gold within the 2018 version of the championships in Finland with a time of 51.46s.

Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra was the primary Indian to win a gold within the championships in 2016 in Poland.

Rupal’s bronze is India’s ninth medal total from the championships, which was earlier often called World Junior Championships. In the final version in Nairobi in 2021, India had gained three medals — 2 silver, 1 bronze