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write the important life of PT usha
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Pilavullakandi Thekkeparampil Usha (born 27 June 1964), popularly known as P. T. Usha, is an iconic Indian athlete. P.T. Usha’s journey into the world of athletics began in the year 1976 when she was chosen to represent her district in the then newly founded Sports School for Women run under the aegis of the Kerala State Government. In 1979 she participated in the National School Games, where she won the individual championship and came into the limelight. Her first international performance came in the 1980 Pakistan Open National Meet at Karachi where she won 4 gold medals for the country. In 1982 at Seoul World junior athletic championship she won a gold medal in 200 meters and bronze medal in 100 meters. The same year at New Delhi Asian Games, she won silver medals in both 100 and 200 metres. In the 1983 Asian Track and Field Championships in Kuwait, she won gold in the 400 metres setting a new Asian record. By 1984, the Los Angeles Olympics, she had improved tremendously. She won the 400 M hurdles heats and semi finals, and missed getting India's first track-and-field bronze medal in the 400m hurdles finals by 1/100 sec, in a dramatic photo finish. She put her faith in her natural talent and trusted in God almighty, with the strength from the people of India. She emerged a winner becoming the first Indian sports woman to enter the Olympics final at the age of twenty. She had set a Commonwealth and Asian continental best, 55.42 seconds for the event which still stands today as a National Record. In the 1985 Jakarta Asian Championships, she won six medals, five gold and one bronze. Such a spectacular performance created an all-time record for most gold medals won by an individual at a single event in the history of the championships. This track record of Usha in the world of athletics has not been matched or surpassed till date by any athlete, in the world, surprisingly the only world record held by an Indian in the world of athletics. Usha nearly replicated her superlative performance of the Jakarta Championships in the 1986 Seoul Asian Games with a tally of one silver and four gold medals. In the 1987 Singapore Asian Championships, she won three gold and two silver medals. In 1989 at the New Delhi ATF, she won 4 gold and 2 silver medals. In her 24 years of active career from 1976 to 2000, she won 103 international medals and 1042 national medals, to her credit.
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