Himashree Roy Explained

Himashree Roy
Sport:Sprinter
Event:100 metre, 4x100m relay
Birth Date:1995 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Paschim Mallik Para, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India
Country:India

Himashree Roy is an Indian athlete. She won the bronze medal in the 100 meters women's relay race along with Merlin K Joseph, Srabani Nanda and Dutee Chand in the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships which concluded on July 9, 2017.[1] [2] She was born in Kolkata, West Bengal on 15 March 1995.[3]

Career

She won the silver medal in women's 4x100m relay race along with N. Shardha, Sonal Chawla and Priyanka in the National Open athletics championships 2018 where they represented the Indian Railways.[4] [5] Himashree Roy timed 11.60 seconds to set a record in women's 100 metres on 5 August 2018 in the 68th State Athletics Championships, at the Salt Lake Stadium while representing the Eastern Railway Sports Association (ERSA).[6] She won the bronze medal in women's 100m final in 84th All India Railway Athletics Championship, 2017.[7]

Himashree Roy, MG Padmini, Srabani Nanda and Gayathri Govindaraj won the bronze medal for women's 4x100m relay race in the second leg of the 2015 Asian Grand Prix Games, held in Thailand.[8] [9] She also won the gold medal in the women's 4×100 metre relay with teammates Dutee Chand, Srabani Nanda and Merlin K Joseph while representing the Indian Railways in the 55th National Open Athletic Championship, 2015.[10]

Notes and References

  1. News: Asian Athletics Championships: Odisha girls conjure up bronze in relay. The New Indian Express. 2018-10-08.
  2. News: Indian women athletes bring home gold. femina.in. 2018-10-08. en.
  3. Web site: Himashree Roy AFI. indianathletics.in. en. 2018-10-08. 8 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181008135035/http://indianathletics.in/profile/himashree-roy. dead.
  4. Web site: Results - 58th National Open Athletics Championships 2018 AFI. indianathletics.in. en. 2018-10-08. 8 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181008174844/http://indianathletics.in/content/results-58th-national-open-athletics-championships-2018. dead.
  5. News: Sreeshankar sets National mark. Sarangi. Y. b. 2018-09-27. The Hindu. 2018-10-08. en-IN. 0971-751X.
  6. Web site: Five meet records on final day. www.telegraphindia.com. en. 2018-10-08.
  7. Web site: Kamalpreet breaks record of Krishna Punia in Railway meet .
  8. News: Indian men's and women's 4x100m team clinch bronze at the Asian Grand Prix Games. 2015-06-25. 2018-10-08. en.
  9. News: Memorable outing for Arokia Rajiv. 2015-06-26. The Hindu. 2018-10-08. en-IN. 0971-751X.
  10. News: Dutee Chand wins Triple Gold at National Open Athletics Championship -. 2015-09-19. Odisha News Insight. 2018-10-08. en-US.