Dutee Chand participated in the Rio Olympics, representing India. She was born on 3rd February 1996. She is an Indian professional sprinter and current national champion in the women's 100 meters event. She is the third Indian woman to ever qualify for the Women's 100 meters event at the Summer Olympic Games, having qualified for the event in the 2016 Summer Olympics. Dutee Chand’s contact number, contact email id, office address, residence address, fax number, email id, etc might be shared here in this article. Also find the active social profiles of the players with important links that are helpful for the visitors. Chand was born to Chakradhar Chand and Akhuji Chand in Gopalpur, Odisha, in the Jajpur district of Odisha. She belongs to a weaver family which is below the poverty line. She is an inspiration to other people but, her source of inspiration comes from her elder sister Saraswati Chand, who was an athlete herself. In order to pursue law she enrolled in the KIIT University. In 2012, the athlete became a national champion in the category of under 18 when she clocked 11.80 seconds for the 100 metres event. Asian Championship held in Pune, Chand won the bronze medal in the 200 metres event by clocking 23.811 seconds. 2012 is the year when she become the first Indian to reach the final of 100 metres of a global athletics. In 2013 she became the national champion at the National Senior Athletics Championship (Ranchi) for 100 metres and 200 metres when she gave the timing of 11.72 sec in 100 metres and career best of 23.73 sec in 200 metres. The supergirl broke 16 year old national record of Rachita Mistry (11.38 seconds )by giving timing of 11.33 seconds in women's 100 metres dash in the Federation Cup National Athletics Championship held in New Delhi, 2016. She missed the Rio Olympics qualification by one hundredth of a second. Later on on 25th June, 2016 she broke her own record twice in one day by clocking 11.24 second at the XVI International Meeting G Kosanov Memorial held in Kazakhstan.
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