Ayyasamy Dharun

Ayyasamy Dharun

Dharun at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1996-12-31) 31 December 1996
Tiruppur district, Tamil Nadu, India
Height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Country  India
Sport Track and field
Event(s) 400 metres, 400 metres hurdles
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 400 m: 48.24 seconds (Bangalore 2013)
400 m hurdles: 50.51 seconds (Bangalore 2016)

Ayyasamy Dharun (born 31 December 1996) is an Indian athlete who specialises in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles events. He has qualified for the 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Early life

Dharun was born on 31 December 1996 in a village called Ravuthampalayam[2] near Avinashi in Tiruppur district. When he was in fourth grade, his father died of tuberculosis. Dharun's mother is a school teacher while his sister Sathya plays volleyball for Tamil Nadu.[3][4]

Dharun studied B. A. at the Alva's College of Arts in Moodabidri, Karnataka.[5] He represented Tamil Nadu at kho kho before switching to athletics in tenth grade.[3][6]

Career

Dharun won the 400 metres hurdles gold medal at the 2016 South Asian Games in Guwahati with a time of 50.54 seconds, finishing 0.03 seconds ahead of fellow Indian Jithin Paul whom he overtook at the last hurdle.[7]

In July 2016, Dharun was part of the relay team that broke the national 4 × 400 metres relay at Bangalore and qualified for the Olympics. The quartet of Dharun, Mohammad Anas, Kunhu Muhammed and Arokia Rajiv clocked 3:00:91, rewriting the national record of 3:02.17 set by themselves four weeks earlier in Turkey. The performance also helped the relay team jump to 13th place in the world rankings.[8] It was the third time a men's relay team from India qualified for the Olympics, after 1964 and 2000.

References

  1. ↑ Ayyasamy Dharun. rio2016.com
  2. ↑ "Exporters' assn gives 1 lakh to Olympian". The Times of India. 23 July 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 RSI, Prasad (14 July 2016). "From Tamil Nadu bylanes to Rio track". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Ayyasamy Dharun Profile: 4x400m Relay". The Indian Express. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  5. ↑ Kumar, R Vimal (23 July 2016). "Youth from Avinashi qualifies for Olympics". The Hindu. PressReader. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  6. ↑ Swaminathan, Swaroop (12 July 2016). "Run that has changed quarter-miler Dharun's world". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "South Asian Games: India Win 11 Out of 12 Medals in Athletics". NDTV. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  8. ↑ "India's 4x400m relay teams qualify for Rio Olympics". Rediff. 10 July 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.

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