Anju bobby george biography kristina

Indian athlete (born )

Anju Bobby George (born 19 April ) is an Indian former athlete. She made history when she won the bronze medal in long jump at the World Championships in Paris.

With this achievement, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships jumping metres (&#;ft).^[1] She went on to win the gold medal at the World Athletics Final in , a performance she considers her best.

Anju was upgraded to the gold status from silver in the World Athletics Final in Monte Carlo following the disqualification of Tatyana Kotova of Russia by the International Association of Athletics Federations, after the re-testing of the latter's sample collected at the World Championship in Helsinki.^[2] She was awarded the Arjuna Award in , Khel Ratna in and Padma Shri in ^[3] She finished 5th position with a personal best of metres (&#;ft) at the Olympics.

In March , she won the BBC lifetime achieveme