Lalita Babar
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Born in Satara district of Maharashtra, Lalita Shivaji Babar belongs to the family of farmers and trains under Nikolai Snesarev.
Her family troubles, which include her family farms being affected by drought, has only been uplifted by the constant success she continue to gain at the highest level of athletics.
Babar began her career in track and field athletics as a long-distance runner.
In 2014, she became the hat-trick winner of the Mumbai Marathon.[4] Determined to win a medal in multi-discipline events like the Asian Gamesand Commonwealth Games, she switched to 3000 metres steeplechase in January 2014, following her win at the marathon. At the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, she won the bronze medal clocking 9:35.37 in the final. In the process, she broke the national record held by Sudha Singh. But after disqualification of the gold medallist Ruth Jebet from Bahrain, Lalita was promoted to the silver medal.[6]
At the 2015 Asian Championships, Babar won the gold medal clocking 9:34.13 and broke her own personal record, the Indian national record and the games record. In the process, she qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Babar went on to shatter the national record again at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with a time of 9:27.86 in her qualifying heat.[8] Being the first Indian woman to qualify for the steeplechase final, she placed eighth in the final.
Born in Satara district of Maharashtra, Lalita Shivaji Babar belongs to the family of farmers and trains under Nikolai Snesarev.
Her family troubles, which include her family farms being affected by drought, has only been uplifted by the constant success she continue to gain at the highest level of athletics.
Babar began her career in track and field athletics as a long-distance runner.
In 2014, she became the hat-trick winner of the Mumbai Marathon.[4] Determined to win a medal in multi-discipline events like the Asian Gamesand Commonwealth Games, she switched to 3000 metres steeplechase in January 2014, following her win at the marathon. At the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, she won the bronze medal clocking 9:35.37 in the final. In the process, she broke the national record held by Sudha Singh. But after disqualification of the gold medallist Ruth Jebet from Bahrain, Lalita was promoted to the silver medal.[6]
At the 2015 Asian Championships, Babar won the gold medal clocking 9:34.13 and broke her own personal record, the Indian national record and the games record. In the process, she qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Babar went on to shatter the national record again at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with a time of 9:27.86 in her qualifying heat.[8] Being the first Indian woman to qualify for the steeplechase final, she placed eighth in the final.
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