Kamaljeet kaur biography of mahatma

Sprint Queen of India Kamaljit Sandhu

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Kamaljeet Kaur Kooner nee Sandhu (born 20 August ) is a female Indian athlete who won gold medal at Bangkok Asian Games in m race.

She ran the distance in seconds.
Kamaljeet kaur biography of mahatma She was honoured by the country soon after her glorious win at Asian games. Wikidata item. She is also an alumna of Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya. Although Kaur did not benefit from any of those improvements in policy, she has no regrets.
She is the first Indian woman athlete to win an individual gold medal at Asian games. She is from Punjab state in India. She received Padma Shri award in
In , she was one of the finalists in the World University Games held at Turin, Italy, in metres race.
She participated in the Women's metres at the Munich Olympics, bowing out in the heats.
She was a star in all basketball, hockey and atheletics and went on to become the First Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Games back in !
Known as the Sprint Queen of India, her winning time of seconds in m was a record in itself.
She also held the m and m national records for over a decade until the like of PT Usha and Rita Sen could take inspiration and push the barriers even further.

Kamaljeet retired from athletics in She was also a national-level basketball and inter-varsity hockey player.

She went to the Asian Games as the coach of the Indian women's sprint team. She is also an alumna of Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya