Paramjeet Kaur Explained

Paramjeet Kaur
Birth Date:1976 4, df=yes
Birth Place:Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality:Indian

Paramjeet Kaur (born 2 April 1976, in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian former athlete. She won a gold medal in the women's 4X400m relay in the 2000 Asian Athletics Championships held in Jakarta, Indonesia. She represented India in the Sydney Olympics 2000[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] in the women's 4X400 relay event. She is the first woman athlete from Rajasthan to represent India in Olympics until 2000. She is also the first woman Olympian from the Indian Revenue Service.

Her moment of glory and pride came when she along with K. M. Beenamol, Jincy Philips, and Manjula Kuriakose broke a 13-year-old national record in the women's 4x400 relay event in the Inter State Senior Athletics Championships held in Chennai. They also clocked the world's sixth fastest time in the long relay in 2000. These quarter milers recorded a time of 3:28.11 sec, smashing the previous national record of 3:31.55 sec set in Rome in 1987 by one of Indian athletics' best relay squads, P.T. Usha, Shiny Abraham, Vandana Shanbagh, and Vandana Rao. Their time was better than the Asian Games record of 3:29.11 sec created by China in Hiroshima.

She was awarded "Best Athlete of the Meet" for various championships during her career including three consecutive years in Inter-University meet.

Awards and honours

Achievements

Representing
2000Jakarta, Indonesia1st4 × 400 m relay3:31.54 NR
2000Sydney, Australia4 × 400 m relay3:31.46
1999Kathmandu, Nepal1st 4 × 100 m relay
1998Colombo, Sri Lanka2nd 4 × 400 m relay
1996 New Delhi, India1st4 × 400 m relay
2nd400 m
1992Singapore1st4 × 400 m relay
2nd4 × 100 m relay
1992New Delhi, India1st4 × 400 m relay3:41.27

Personal life

Paramjeet Kaur is married to Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, a sports enthusiast. They have two children, Yash and Mansi.

Notes and References

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  2. News: Olympic Games: Indian contingent travels to Sydney with a fistful of dreams. India Today/1/244693.html. 2014-12-29.
  3. News: Twenty four member team for Sydney Olympics. https://web.archive.org/web/20181013190654/https://www.thehindu.com/2000/09/06/stories/07060756.htm. dead. 2018-10-13. The Hindu. 2000-09-06. 2014-12-29.
  4. News: Indian Contingent announced. Rediff.
  5. News: India and the Olympics. Book "India and the Olympics". 978-1-135-27575-4 . 2014-12-29 . Majumdar . Boria . Mehta . Nalin . 7 May 2009 .