India's 10 Most Inspirational Sportswomen

Anju Bobby George: Long jumper, Anju Bobby George rose to fame by winning the bronze medal in long jump at the World Athletics Championships, 2003 in Paris. This winning performance catapulted herself to fame and won the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2004. Even before winning the bronze at the Paris meet, Anju had shown a lot of promise by winning the gold at the junior Asian Championship in1996.

Although she started with Heptathlon, but later began to concentrate on her jump events and went on to win long jump medal at the junior Asian championship. She also won the silver medal at the SAF games in Nepal. Anju became the first Indian woman to win a bronze medal clearing 6.49 m at the Commonwealth Games at Manchester 2002. She also won the gold medal at the Busan Asian Games. Anju received the prestigious Arjuna award (2003) for eminent sports persons from the government of India after her success in the World Athletic meet.

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