Dutee Chand, a professional sprinter from India, married his long-time girlfriend, Monalisa. On Twitter, he informed his followers and sympathizers of this news. She tweeted: “I loved you yesterday, I still love you, always have and always will,” along with a photo from the wedding.
“I loved you yesterday, I love you still, I always loved you, I will always love you.” pic.twitter.com/1q3HRlEAmG
– Dutee Chand (@DuteeChand)
December 2, 2022
Who is Dutee Chand?
Professional sprinter Dutee Chand was born in India on February 3, 1996. The daughter of Chakradhar Chand and Akhuji Chand, who lives in the village of Chaka Gopalpur in Odisha, Jajpur district, she is the current national champion in the sprint Women’s 100 meters. The first Indian to take home a gold medal in the 100 meter race in an international competition was a low-income person.
Career
When Dutee Chand ran the 100 meters in 11.85 seconds in 2012, he won the national championship for athletes under 18 years of age.
She is the current 100 meter national champion. 36 years after PT Usha competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Chand, who once had to sit out due to IAAF hyperandrogenism rules, qualified for the women’s 100m event at the Moscow Olympics. Rio 2016. In 2016 she was assigned a position as deputy director at the state-owned Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC).
She is only the third Indian woman to have qualified for the women’s 100m race at the Olympics. However, her 11.69 seconds in the preliminary round of the 2016 Summer Olympics did not allow her to advance. At the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, Chand won silver in the women’s 100 meters. The Indian had not won a medal in this competition since 1998. She ran the 100 meter race in 11.32 seconds to become the first Indian sprinter to win gold at the Universiade in 2019.
Awards and honors
- He won the 100 meters race at the 2012 National Athletics Championships in Lucknow while competing in the Under-18 division.
- 2013: At the Asian Championships held in Pune, India, he won the bronze medal in the 200 m.
- He reached the 100m final of the 2013 World Junior Championships in Ukraine, becoming the first Indian to do so.
- He won the 100 and 200 meter races at the 2013 National Athletics Championships in Bengaluru.
- He won two gold medals at the Asian Junior Athletics Championships in June 2014 in the 200 meters and 4×400 meters relay.
- She won the women’s 100 meter gold medal at the 2016 Federation Cup National Athletics Championships in New Delhi.
- He set a new Indian national record in the 60 meters in the qualification round of the 2016 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships with a time of 7.28 seconds. With a time of 7.37 seconds he took home the bronze medal of the competition.
- She was the third Indian woman to compete in the women’s 100 meters race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
- At the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships, she took home two bronze medals: one in the women’s 100 meters race and another in the women’s 4 x 100 meters relay.
- On August 26, with a time of 11.32 in the women’s 100 meters final, she won a silver medal, her first of the 2018 Asian Games. In the women’s 200 meters final on August 29, she won her second. silver medal at the Asian Games.
- She became the first Indian runner to win Universiade gold at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, where she won a gold medal in the 100 meter dash in 11.32 seconds.
- He received the Arjuna Award in 2020.
Personal life
Apart from covering miles on foot, Dutee tried his luck studying law in 2013 at KIIT University. And now, she is currently working in the state-owned PSU The Odisha Mining Corporation Ltd. as the CEO.
She publicly came out as being in a same-sex relationship in 2019, becoming the first openly queer athlete in India. She claimed that the Indian Supreme Court’s decision to decriminalize gay sex in 2018 encouraged her to speak publicly about her sexuality and mention that she was in a same-sex relationship.
And today, she and her long-time partner, Monalisa, are happily married.
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