Pramila Aiyappa

Pramila Aiyappa
Pramila in Heptathlon, Olympics 2008
Personal information
Birth name Pramila Ganapathy
Full name Pramila Gudanda Aiyappa
Nationality Indian
Born (1977-05-08) 8 May 1977
Kodagu, Karnataka, India
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Weight 57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Country India
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Heptathlon
Club Indian Railways
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) Heptathlon: 6105
(Chennai 2000)

Pramila Gudanda Aiyappa (née Ganapathy) (born 8 May 1977 in Kodagu, Karnataka[1]) is an Indian heptathlete.[2] Pramila made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed twenty-fourth in the women's heptathlon event, with a total score of 5,548 points.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Pramila made a comeback from her eight-year absence to compete for the second time in women's heptathlon, along with her fellow athletes Shobha Javur and Susmita Singha Roy. She initially placed twenty-eighth out of forty-three heptathletes in the event, with a total score of 5,771 points, but was elevated to a single higher position, when Ukraine's Lyudmila Blonska stripped of her silver medal after she tested positive for methyltestosterone.[3][4]

Pramila represented the host nation India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, where she nearly missed out of medal contention in the heptathlon, finishing only in fifth place, with a total score of 5,330 points.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "GG Pramila: Kodagu's daughter is now Jharkhand's pride". Kodagu Connect. 22 July 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Pramila Gudanda". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Blonska thrown out of long jump". BBC Sport. 21 August 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "Women's Heptathlon". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "Harminder gives India 2nd athletics medal, others disappoint". NDTV. 9 October 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2012.


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