Dutee Chand
| Personal information | |
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| Born |
3 February 1996 Gopalpur, Odisha, India |
| Height | 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) |
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| Country |
 India
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| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | 100 metres |
| Club | ONGC |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) |
100 m: 11.24 (Almaty 2016) 200 m: 23.73 (Ranchi 2013) 4X100 m relay: 43.42 (Almaty 2016) |
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Medal record
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| Updated on 20 August 2016. | |
Dutee Chand (born 3 February 1996) is an Indian professional sprinter and current national champion in the women's 100 metres event. She is the third Indian woman to ever qualify for the Women's 100 metres event at the Summer Olympic Games, having qualified for the event in the [Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres|2016 Summer Olympics]], where her 11.69 into a -0.7 wind did not advance to the next round.
Chand was born on 3 February 1996 to Chakradhar Chand and Akhuji Chand in Gopalpur, Odisha, in the Jajpur district of Odisha. She is from a below poverty line weavers family. Her source of inspiration comes from her elder sister Saraswati Chand, who was an athlete herself. In 2013, she enrolled in the KIIT University to pursue law.
Dutee Chand in 2012 became a national champion in the under-18 category when she clocked 11.8 seconds in the 100 metres event. Clocking 23.811 seconds, Chand won the bronze in the 200 metres event at the Asian Championships in Pune. The year also saw her become the first Indian to reach the final of a global athletics 100 metres final, when she reached the final in the 2013 World Youth Championships. In the same year, she became the national champion in 100 metres and 200 metres when she won the events clocking 11.73 s in the final in 100 metres and a career-best 23.73 s in 200 metres at the National Senior Athletics Championships in Ranchi.
Dutee clocked 11.33 secs in women’s 100m dash to win the gold and erase Rachita Mistry’s 16-year-old earlier national record of 11.38 secs in the 2016 Federation Cup National Athletics Championships in New Delhi, however she missed the Rio Olympics qualification norm of 11.32 secs by one-hundredth of a second. But finally on 25 June 2016, Dutee broke the very same National record twice in one day after clocking 11.24 at the XVI International Meeting G Kosanov Memorial in Almaty, Kazakhstan, thereby qualifying for the Olympic Games.
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