Sushmitha Singha Roy - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Mar 26, 1984 Medinipur, West Bengal, India 40 years old

Indian heptathlete

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About Sushmitha Singha Roy

  • Sushmitha Singha Roy (Bengali: ???????? ???? ???? Hindi: ???????? ????? ???; born 26 March 1984 in Midnapore) is an Indian heptathlete.
  • She had won a silver and a bronze medal for her respective category at the IAAF Asian Championships (2005 in Incheon, South Korea, and 2007 in Amman, Jordan).Singha Roy qualified for the women's heptathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after attaining a B-standard of 5,866 points from the Indian Federation Cup in Bhopal.
  • She initially placed thirty-third out of forty-three heptathletes in the event, with a total score of 5,705 points, but was elevated to a single higher position, when Ukraine's Lyudmila Blonska stripped of her silver medal for failing the doping test on methyltestosterone.The following year, Singha Roy suffered numerous setbacks in her sporting career.
  • She finished last out of twenty-six athletes at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany, with a total tally of 4,983 points, which was farther from her personal best of 6,027, set at a national meet in Bangalore.
  • She also missed out the 2009 Asian Championships in Guangzhou, China, and the Open National Championships in Bhopal, because of her left hamstring injury.Singha Roy eventually came out of rehabilitation in time for her preparation and training to the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, representing the host nation India.
  • Singha Roy nearly missed out of the podium after finishing sixth in the women's heptathlon with a total score of 5,120 points.

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