FULL NAME: Swasti Singh
GENDER: Female
DATE OF BIRTH: 16 May 2001 (Source: Cycling Federation of India and Odisha Olympic Association)
BLOOD GROUP: B+ve
MARITAL STATUS: Unmarried
PARENTS: Father (Amar Singh), Mother (Uma Devi)
HOME ADDRESS: Qrs No F/82, Sector-6, Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India, PIN- 769002.
PRESENT ADDRESS: Room No 219, Sports Hostel, Indira Gandhi Sports Complex, New Delhi. PIN- 110002.
E-MAIL: swastisingh@gmail.com
ACADEMIC EDUCATION: 1st Year BA Psychology student at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
PROFESSION: Working as TTI in Indian Railways (Joined in November 2023)
HOME CLUB/ACADEMY: Rourkela Steel Plant
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Sushil Kumar Das (First coach), V N Singh (Since 2016).
TEAMS/UNITS REPRESENTED: Odisha, Indian Railways and India Women
TOTAL NATIONAL MEDALS: 23 (11 Gold, 6 Silver, 6 Bronze)
TOTAL INTERNATIONAL MEDALS: 4 (1 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze)

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:
*     Bagged a double, winning titles both in girls 500m and 1600m individual races of the 38th Odisha State Track & Road Cycling Championship, held at DRIEMS Campus in Tangi (Cuttack) no 20-21 Nov, 2015.

NATIONAL:
*     Bagged the Best Woman Cyclist Award and 2 Gold medals (one each in women elite 80km mass start and 35km criterium race) for Railways in the 28th National Road Cycling Championship, held in Vijayapur, Karnataka from 9-12 January 2024.
*     Won one Gold and one Bronze medal for Railways iin 4km team pursuit and 10km scratch race respectively in the 75 th National Track Cycling Championship, held in Ranchi, Jharkhand from 30 Nov to 4 Dec 2023.
*     Selected to represent India in the women elite omnium event of the 2023 Asian Track Cycling Championships and Asian Games after securing first position in the National selection trials, held in New Delhi on 12 May 2023.
*     Won the Gold medal in women elite 90km event of the 27th National Road Cycling Championship in Shirdi, Maharashtra on 9 January 2023.
*     Won one Gold and one Silver medal in elite women omnium race and 3km individual pursuit events of the 74th Senior National Track Cycling Championship, held in Guwahati, Assam from 11-15 December 2022.
*     Won the Silver medal in womens omnium race of the 36th National Games in Delhi on 3 October 2022.
*     Silver medal in women elite 20km point race in the 72nd National Track Cycling Championship at Usmania University in Hyderabad on 30 March, 2021.
*     Gold medal with New National Record (4:05.547s) in women elite 3000m individual pursuit in the 72nd Senior National Track Cycling Championship at Usmania University, Hyderabad on 29 March, 2021.
*     Silver medal in women elite 10 km scratch race in the 72nd National Track Cycling Championship, held at Usmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, 27 March, 2021.
*     Gold medal in the Elite women 60km mass start event of the 25th Senior National Road Cycling Championship, held in Navi Mumbai on 7 March, 2021.
*     Two Gold and one Silver medals in U-21 girls category of the 3rd Khelo India Youth Games in Guwahati between 13-15 January, 2020.
*     Created National Record in 2km individual pursuit event, clocking 2:37.00 seconds at the Sub-Junior National Cycling Championship, held at Jaipur, Rajasthan, 2019.
*     Gold in women junior 2km individual pursuit, Silver in women junior 10km point race and Bronze in women Elite 3km individual pursuit events in the 71st National Track Cycling Championship, held at SMS Stadium, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 30 Jan-3 Feb, 2019.
*     Gold in women elite 80km mass start, Bronze in women elite 30km criterium race and Bronze in women junior 60km mass start events in the 24th National Road Cycling Championship, held in Bikaner, Rajasthan, 13-16 November, 2019.
*     Bronze in women junior 15km individual time trial event in the 23rd National Road Cycling Championship, held in Kurukshetra, Haryana, 21 November, 2018.
*     Bronze in women junior 6km scratch race event in the Track Cycling Championship, held in New Delhi, 2-6 January, 2018.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     She was part of Indian senior women team that won the Bronze medal in elite women 4km team pursuit event of the 41st Senior Asian Track Cycling Championship at Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in New Delhi on 18 June 2022. This was the first-ever medal for the Indian women team in any Asian Track Cycling Championship.
*     Silver medal in womens individual road race event of the 13th South Asian Games in Kathmandu, Nepal on 7 Dec, 2019.
*     Bronze medal in 2km individual pursuit event of the Track Asia Cup Cycling Championships, held at IG Sports Complex in New Delhi from 9-11 September, 2019. Also created New National Record of 2:35.161 seconds, beating her previous record of 2:37.00 seconds.
*     Gold medal in junior women 2km individual pursuit event (Timing: 2:41.123s) of the 5th Asian Cup Track Cycling, held at Talkotora Velodrome in New Delhi from 21-23 Sept, 2018.

MISCELLANEOUS:
*     Won the Silver medal for second successive year and a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh in the women elite 55 km criterium race of the HCL Cyclothon in Noida, Uttar Pradesh on 17 March 2024.
*     Bagged one Gold and four Silver medals in the Khelo India Women Cycling League (Track Event, East Zone), held at Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium in Ranchi on 20-21 September 2023.
*     Won one Gold and one Bronze medal in 40km mass start and 20km individual time trial respectively in the Khelo India Women Cycling League (Road Event, North Zone), held in Amritsar, Punjab on 16-17 September 2023.
*     Won one Silver and one Gold medal for KIIT University in women elite 3km individual pursuit and point race respectively at the All India Inter Unviersity Cycling Track Championships in Patiala on 28 and 31 March 2023.
*     Received prize of Rs 1,25,000 by finishing 1st runner-up and in the 55m Criterium Race of the 1st HCL Cyclothon 2023 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh on 19 March 2023.
*     Won 1 Gold and 1 Silver medal in the Khelo India Womens Track Cycling League Zone 2, held in Guwahati, Assam on 11 and 12 March 2023.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     Odisha Government bestowed her with the Biju Patnaik Sports Award and a cheque of Rs 2 lakhs for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games at Lok Seva Bhawan, Bhubaneswar on 29 August 2023.
*     Odisha Sports Journalists Association felicitated her with the OSJA Sportsperson of the Year 2022 Award and a cheque of Rs 25,000 at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack on 21 March 2023.
*     Received the 30th Ekalabya Puraskar for the year 2022 and a cash award of Rs 5 lakh in Bhubaneswar on 23 December 2022.
*     On 4 July 2022, Odisha Government felicitated her with cash award of Rs 2 lakhs in a function at Kalinga Hockey Stadium, Bhubaneswar for winning Asian Track Cycling Championship bronze medal in June 2022.
*     She was felicitated with a cash award of Rs 50,000 at the 29th Ekalabya Award Ceremony 2021 in Bhubaneswar on 3 January 2022.
*     Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik felicitated Swasti and handed over a cheque of Rs 2 lakhs as as financial incentive in Bhubaneswar on 7th April, 2021.
*     Swasti has been honing her skills as a trainee of SAI National Cycling Academy in New Delhi since 2017.
*     Swasti started her cycling career in 2015.
*     Her father Amar Singh is working in Rurkela Steel Plant.
*     Her grandfarther also worked in RSP.
*     Her elder brother Aditya was also a cyclist.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 12 September 2019
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 19 March 2024