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Anju Bobby George
Anju Boby George in 2006
Personal information
Birth name
Anju Markose
Born
(1977-04-19) 19 April 1977 (age 47) Changanassery, Kottayam, Kerala, India
Height
1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight
66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country
India
Sport
Athletics
Events
Long jump
Triple jump
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Long jump: 6.83 m NR (Athens 2004) Triple jump: 13.67 (Hyderabad 2002)
Medal record
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
World Championships
0
0
1
World Athletics Final
1
0
0
Asian Games
1
1
0
Commonwealth Games
0
0
1
Asian Championships
1
1
0
South Asian Games
1
0
0
Total
4
2
2
World Championships
2003 Paris
Long jump
World Athletics Final
2005 Monte Carlo
Long jump
Commonwealth Games
2002 Manchester
Long jump
Asian Games
2002 Busan
Long jump
2006 Doha
Long jump
Asian Championships
2005 Incheon
Long jump
2007 Amman
Long jump
South Asian Games
2006 Colombo
Long jump
Updated on 30 July 2013
Anju Bobby George (born 19 April 1977) is a retired Indian athlete. Anju Bobby George made history when she won the bronze medal in long jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris. With this achievement, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in a World Championships in Athletics jumping 6.70 metres (22.0 ft).[1] She went on to win the gold medal at the IAAF World Athletics Final (a competition between best eight athletes in the world based on the world ranking) in 2005, a performance she considers her best. Anju was upgraded to the gold status from silver in the 2005 World Athletics Final in Monte Carlo following the disqualification of Tatyana Kotova of Russia by the International Association of Athletics Federations, following the recent re-testing of the latter's sample collected at the 2005 World Championship in Helsinki.[2] She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2002, Khel Ratna in 2003 and Padma Shri in 2004.[3] She had got 5th position with personal best of 6.83 metres (22.4 ft) at the 2004 Athens Olympics. In March 2021, Anju won the BBC lifetime achievement award for best athlete in India.[4] She is also the current vice-president of the Athletics Federation of India.[5]
^"EVENT REPORT WOMEN LONG JUMP FINAL". IAAF. 30 August 2003.
^"IAAF ratifies Anju's top finish in 2005 World Athletics Final". Times of India. PTI. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
^"Anju Bobby George is now a gold medallist". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 14 January 2014.
^"Anju Bobby George bags BBC lifetime achievement award". Mathrubhumi. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
^"Executives". Athletics Federation of India. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
AnjuBobbyGeorge (born 19 April 1977) is a retired Indian athlete. AnjuBobbyGeorge made history when she won the bronze medal in long jump at the 2003...
for India. Anju and Bobby started their athletics training academy named AnjuBobbyGeorge Academy in Bangalore, Karnataka under AnjuBobby Sports Foundation...
competition, discus thrower Neelam Jaswant Singh and long jumper AnjuBobbyGeorge reached the podium at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first...
category. She is trained by veteran Indian long jumper AnjuBobbyGeorge and her husband Robert BobbyGeorge. Singh was born on 7 January 2004 in Jhansi, Uttar...
was formerly called as Amateur Athletic Federation of India (AAFI). AnjuBobbyGeorge an Indian Olympian was appointed as the vice president of AFI. Athletics...
Athletics since 1983. Their first ever medal was a Bronze medal won by AnjuBobbyGeorge in 2003 in Paris; in the Women's long jump discipline. Neeraj Chopra...
second medal at the World Athletics Championships after long-jumper AnjuBobbyGeorge's bronze in 2003. On 26 August, he won first place at the Lausanne...
year 2002, and the Padma Shri in the year 2004. The third recipient, AnjuBobbyGeorge, a long jumper, is India's first and only World Champion at the IAAF...
Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France from 23 to 31 August 2003. AnjuBobbyGeorge became the first ever Indian athlete to win a medal at the World Championships...
brother. Raj played for Air India alongside Purnima Rau, Anjum Chopra, and Anju Jain, before joining Railways for the domestic championship. She has played...
India at the 2002 Asian Games India at the 2004 Summer Paralympics "AnjuGeorge will be India's flag-bearer". Deccan Herald. 7 August 2004. Retrieved...
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