Dutee Chand, a professional sprinter from India, has married his long-time girlfriend Monalisa. On Twitter, she informed his supporters and well-wishers about the news. She tweeted: “Loved you yesterday, still love you, always have, always will” alongside a photo from the wedding.
“I loved you yesterday, still love you, always have, always will.” pic.twitter.com/1q3HRlEAmG
– Dutee Chand (@DuteeChand)
December 2, 2022
Who is Dutee Chand?
Professional sprinter Dutee Chand was born on February 3, 1996 in India. The daughter of Chakradhar Chand and Akhuji Chand, who lives in Odisha village Chaka Gopalpur, Jajpur district, is the current national champion in the women’s 100 meters event. The first Indian to win a gold medal in the 100 meters at an international competition was a low-income individual.
Career
When Dutee Chand ran 100 meters in 11.85 seconds in 2012, she won the national championship for athletes under 18 years of age.
She is currently the 100 meter national champion. 36 years after PT Usha competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Chand, who had been sidelined due to IAAF hyperandrogenism regulations, has qualified for the women’s 100m event at the Rio Olympics 2016. She was appointed as assistant director of state-run Odisha Mining Corporation in 2016. (OMC).
She is only the third Indian woman to ever qualify for the women’s 100 meter race at the Olympics. However, her 11.69 seconds in the 2016 Summer Olympics qualifying round did not allow her to advance. At the Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018, Chand won a silver medal in the women’s 100 meters. India has not won a medal at this competition since 1998. She ran 100 meters in 11.32 seconds to become the first Indian sprinter to win a gold medal at the Universiade in 2019.
Awards & Honors
- Won the 100 meter race at the 2012 National Athletics Championships in Lucknow while competing in the U18 category.
- 2013: At the Asian Championships in Pune, India, won the bronze medal in the 200 m event.
- reached the 100 meters final of the 2013 World Youth Championships in Ukraine, becoming the first Indian to do so.
- Won the 100 and 200 meter races at the 2013 National Athletics Championships in Bangalore.
- She won two gold medals at the Asian Youth Athletics Championships in June 2014 in the 200 meter and 4×400 meter relays.
- Won the women’s 100 meter gold medal at the 2016 Federation Cup National Athletics Championships in New Delhi.
- She set a new Indian national record in the 60 meters event in the qualifying round of the 2016 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships with a time of 7.28 seconds. With a time of 7.37 seconds, she brought home the bronze medal in the competition.
- She was the third Indian woman to compete in the women’s 100 meters at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
- At the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships, she brought home two bronze medals: one in the women’s 100 meter run and one in the women’s 4 x 100 meter relay.
- On August 26, with a performance of 11.32 in the women’s 100 meter final, she won her first silver medal at the 2018 Asian Games. In the women’s 200 meter final on August 29, she won her second silver medal at the Asian Games.
- She became the first Indian female athlete to win a gold medal at the Universiade at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, where she won gold in the 100 meter sprint in 11.32 seconds.
- She received the Arjuna Award in 2020.
Personal life
Besides walking miles, Dutee also tried her hand at studying law in 2013 at KIIT University. And currently, she is currently working for PSU The Odisha Mining Corporation Ltd. owned by the state as managing director.
She publicly announced that she was in a same-sex relationship in 2019, becoming the first openly gay athlete in India. She claims that the Indian Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay sex in 2018 encouraged her to talk publicly about her sexuality and mention that she was in a same-sex relationship. gender.
And today, she and her longtime partner Monalisa are happily married.
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