Greatest Sports Womens 1.P. T. Usha 2.Sania Mirza 3.Saina Nehwal

1. Greatest Sports Women
P. T. Usha
Sania Mirza
Saina Nehwal

2. P. T. Usha

3. P. T. Usha
Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha
( ) is
born on June 27, 1964 in Kerala.
P. T. Usha was born in the village of
Payyoli, Kerala. In 1976 the Kerala
State Government started a Sports
School for women, and Usha was
chosen to represent her district.
She is popularly known as P. T. Usha
or Payyoli Express and also called the
“Queen of Indian track and field”.

4. Career
• In 1979 P. T. Usha participated in the National School Games, where she
was noticed by O. M. Nambiar, who coached her throughout her career.
• Her debut in the 1980 Moscow Olympics proved lackluster.
• In the 1982 New Delhi Asiad, she got silver medal in the 100 m and the
200 m, but at the Asian Track and Field Championship in Kuwait a year
later, Usha took gold in the 400 m with a new Asian record.
• Between 1983-89, Usha garnered 13 golds at ATF meets. She finished first
in the semi-finals of the 400 meters hurdles in the 1984 Los Angeles
Olympics, but faltered in the finals.
• In almost a repeat of Milkha Singh's 1960 feat, there was a nail-biting
photo finish for the third place. Usha lost the bronze by 1/100th of a
second. She became the first Indian woman (and the fifth Indian) to
reach the final of an Olympic event by winning her 400 m hurdles Semi-
final.

5. Career
• Usha has won 101 international medals so far.
She is employed as an officer in the Southern
Railways. In 1985, she was conferred the Padma
Shri and the Arjuna award.
• She won five golds at the 6th Asian Track and
Field Championship at Jakarta in 1985.
• In the 10th Asian Games held at Seoul in 1986, P.
T. Usha won 4 gold and 1 silver medal in the
track and field events.
• She created new Asian Games records in all the
events she participated.

6. Achievements
• National Record at State athletic meet at Kottayam, 1977.
• Selected to the Moscow Olympics, 1980.
• First Indian woman to reach the final of an Olympic event.
• Participated in 1982 Delhi Asiad and won the first medal
of the games.
• Usha gathered 5 gold medals and one bronze in 1985, at
the Jakarta Asian Athletic meet.
• Won four golds in 1986, Seoul Asian games, claiming for
herself the title of Asia's sprint queen.
• Participated in Olympic games from 1980, except on 1992,
Barcelona Olympics.
• She last participated in Atlanta Olympics, 1996.

7. P. T. Usha

8. Sania Mirza

9. Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza is born on 15 November
1986, in Bombay.
She was born to Imran Mirza, a sports
journalist, and his wife Nasima.
She is a professional Indian tennis
player.
She began her tennis career in 2003.

10. Career
• Mirza is the highest ranked female tennis player
ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27
in singles and 7 in doubles.
• She is the third Indian woman to be featuring at
a Grand Slam tournament (the first one being
Nirupama Vaidyanathan at the 1998 Australian
Open and the second being Shikha Uberoi at the
2004 US Open.)
• She is the first Indian woman to be seeded in a
Grand Slam tennis tournament and the first
Indian woman to win a WTA title.

11. Awards
• Arjuna Award (2004)
• WTA New Comer of the Year (2005)
• Padma Shri (2006)

12. Sania Mirza

13. Saina Nehwal

14. Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal is born on March
17, 1990.
She is an Indian (Khel Ratna)
badminton player, currently ranked 5
in the world by Badminton World
Federation.
She has got brown belt in Karate. But
she quit Karate at age of 8.

15. Career
• Saina created history by the winning the prestigious Asian Satellite
Badminton tournament (India Chapter) twice, becoming the first
player to do so.
• She became the first Indian woman to reach the quarter finals at
the Olympic Games.
• Saina has been signed up by Olympic Gold Quest to support her in
fulfilling her dream of winning the Olympic gold medal.
• Saina has been awarded with Padma Shri award in January 2010.
• Saina is brand ambassador of Deccan Chargers, an Indian Premier
League team owned by Deccan chronicle.
• She has also became one of the 8 brand ambassadors of 2010
Commonwealth Games held on New Delhi India.
• She got 19 gold medal, 4 silver and 2 bronze between 2003-12.

16. Saina Nehwal

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