FULL NAME: Srabani Nanda
GENDER: Female
BORN: 7 May, 1991 (Source: Athletics Federation of India)
FAMILY: Father (Banabihari Nanda), mother (Subasini Rayguru).
HOME ADDRESS: Tikabali, Kandhamal, Odisha, India.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION: Arts Graduate from Ramadevi Women`s College, Bhubaneswar. Currently she is pursuing MBA in North Odisha University.
TYPE OF ATHLETE: Sprinter
HOME CLUB/ACADEMY: Government Sports Hostel, Bhubaneswar
COACH: Nila Madhab Deo, Sharon Hannan (former coach of Olympic champion Sally Pearson), Tarun Shaw (SAI) and Stiphen Fransis.
PROFESSION: Joined East Coast Railway headquarter here as a junior clerk on February 1, 2012. Joined Odisha Hydro Power Corporation (OHPC) as Junior Manager in 2016. Now working with OHPC as Assistant Manager (Group-A).
PERSONAL BEST TIMINGS: 100 metre: 11.36 secnds and 200m: 23.07 seconds
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:
STATE:
* Won two gold medals in women`s 100m sprint (11.9s *NMR) and 200m sprint (24.3 *NSR) events of the 59th Odisha State Athletic Meet at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack (Dec 28 to 30, 2011).
NATIONAL:
* Won 1 Gold and 1 Silver medal in women 200m and 100m respectively in the 37th National Games at the Athletics Stadium in Bambolim, Goa on 2 November and 29 October 2023 respectively.
* Won the Silver medal in women 200m sprint with a time of 23.88 seconds in the 62nd National Open Athletics Championships at Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on 14 October 2023.
* Won the womens 100m sprint and 4x100m relay titles at the Indian Grand Prix-5 in Chandigarh on 10 and 11 September 2023.
* Bagged 1 Gold (200m run), 1 Silver (100m run) and 1 Bronze (4x100m relay) medals in the 62nd National Inter State Senior Athletics Championship, held at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar from 15-19 June 2023.
* Won the womens 100m Gold medal in the 26th National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships at Birsa Munda Stadium, Ranchi, Jharkhand on 16 May 2023.
* Won the womens 100m Gold and 200m Silver medal in the 61st National Open Athletics Championships at Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore on 16 and 19 October 2022.
* Won the women 200m Bronze medal in the 36th National Games at IIT Ground in Gandhinagar on 4 October 2022.
* Won the womens 100m Bronze medal in the 61st National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships at the JN Stadium, Chennai on 11 June 2022.
* Won the women 100m title in the Indian Grand Prix-4 at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar on 24 May 2022.
* Won the women 200m title, clocking 24.04s at the Indian Grand Prix 3 at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar on 21 May 2022.
* Won the 200m Bronze medal in the 58th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championship, held at Sarusajai Stadium, Guwahati from June 26-29, 2018.
* Won the 200m Gold medal in the 57th National Senior Inter-State Athletic Championships, held at Acharya Nagarjuna University ground in Guntur (AP) from July 15 to 18, 2017.
* Won the 200m Gold and 100m Silver in the 21st Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championships, held at NS-NIS in Patiala from June 1 to 4, 2017.
* Won the 100 meter Bronze medal in the 2nd Indian Grand Prix, held at NIS, Patiala on May 6, 2016.
* Won the 200m Gold (23.39 secs) and 100m Silver (11.45 secs) in the 20th Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championship, held at J N Stadium in New Delhi from April 28 to 30, 2016.
* Won the women 100m gold medal with new National record, clocking 11.23 secs in Indian Grand Prix-I at J N Stadium in New Delhi on April 24, 2016. She erased the National record of former Odisha sprinter Rachita Mistry, who had clocked 11.38 secs at Trivandrum in the year 2000.
* Won three silver medals for Railways, finishing second in women 100m (11.70s), 200m (23.75s) and 4x100m relay in the 55th National Open Athletic Championship, held at SAI Complex in Kolkata from Sept 17 to 19, 2015.
* Won one gold medal each in women 200m sprint (23.92 secs) and 4x100m relay events of the 55th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championship, held at J N Stadium in Chennai from July 10 to 13, 2015.
* Bagged a golden double by winning both the 100 and 200m titles, clocking 11.59 and 23.67 seconds respectively in the 19th Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championship, held at Mangaluru from May 1 to 4, 2015. She was also adjudged the best woman athlete of the championship.
* Bagged one bronze medal in women 4x100m relay event of the 35th National Games, held in Kerala from Feb 1 to 14, 2015.
* Won a silver medal each in women’s 100 and 200 metre sprints, clocking 11.86 and 24.02 seconds respectively in the 18th Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championship, held at Patiala from August 16 to 19, 2014.
* Won one gold medal in women’s 4x100m relay and one bronze each in women’s 200m (23.82s) and 100m sprint (11.59s) in the 54th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championship, held at Lucknow from June 5 to 8, 2014.
* Won a bronze medal in women`s 200m event, clocking 24.05 seconds in the 53rd Senior National and Inter-State Athletics Championship at JN Stadium in Chennai on June 7, 2013.
* Won two silver medals in 100 and 200 metre sprint events, clocking 11.89 seconds and 23.96 seconds respectively in the 17th Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championship, held at Patiala from April 23 to 26, 2013.
* Bagged one silver medal each in women`s 100 and 200 metre sprint, clocking 12.06 seconds and 24.90 seconds respectively in the 16th Federation Cup National Senior Athletics Championship held at Patiala from April 21 to 24, 2012.
* Bagged a double by winning gold medals in women`s 100m and 200m sprint, taking 11.95 and 24.56 seconds respectively in the 77th All-India Railway Athletics Championship at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar (Feb 3 to 5, 2012.
* Bagged one silver medal in women`s 200m sprint (24.52 seconds) in the 51st Open National Athletics Championship at Kolkatal on September 13, 2011.
* Won two silver medals in women`s 100m sprint (11.98 secs) and 4x100m relay with Anuradha Biswal, Renubala Mahanta and Saraswati Chand in the 15th National Senior Federation Cup Athletics Championship held at Ranchi, Jharkhand from May 1 to 4, 2010.
* Bagged a double, winning the u-20 girls 100m (12.11s) and 200m (25.04s)gold medals in the 25th National Junior Athletics Championship at Warangal (AP) on Nov 20, 2009.
* Won the gold medal in 100m sprint and silver in 200m sprint in the 53rd National School Games at Kolkata in January, 2008.
* Bagged a double by winning gold medals in both 100 and 200m sprints of the 20th Junior National Inter-Zonal Athletics Championship at Jamshedpur in September, 2008.
* Bagged a double by winning gold medals in both 100 and 200m sprints of the 24th Junior National Athletics Championship at Mysore in November, 2008.
INTERNATIONAL:
* Won the women 200m Bronze medal, clocking 23.32 seconds in the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association Destiny Series-1 meet at Kingston on 22 May, 2021.
* Won the women 200m Bronze medal, clocking 23.29s at the Velocity Fest 9 in Kingston, Jamaica on 18 April, 2021.
* Won the women 100m Bronze medal at the Velocity Fest 2020 Meet 2 in Kingston, Jamaica, clocking 11.78 on 18 July, 2020.
* Won the Bronze medal in women 4x100m relay event of the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar on 8 July, 2017.
* Competing in women 200m sprint at the Rio Olympic Games, she finished 6th in Heat-5 with a time of 23.58s at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 15 August, 2016.
* She was a member of the Indian women’s 4x100m relay team that won the Gold medal with a timing of 44.34 secs in the 3rd Indian Grand Prix at Sree Kanteerva Stadium in Bangalore on July 10, 2016.
* She was a member of the Indian 4x100m women’s relay team that created a new National record, clocking 43.42 secs while winning the Silver medal in the Kazakhstan National Athletics Championships at Almaty on July 4, 2016.
* Qualified to represent India in the Rio Olympic Games by clearing the qualifying mark (23.20 secs) in 200m event with a timing of 23.07secs at the 26th G Kosanov Memorial Meet in Almaty, Kazakhstan on June 26, 2016.
* Helped India win the Silver medal in the women 4x100m relay event of the 26th G Kosanov Memorial International Athletics Meet at Almaty in Kazakhstan on June 25, 2016.
* Won one Silver medal in women’s 4x100m relay event of the XIX International Competition on the prizes of Olympic Champion Tatiana Kolpakova at Bishkek in Kyrghystan on June 18, 2016.
* Bagged Silver medal in 200m (23.55s) event of the Taiwan Open Athletics Championship, held at Taoyuan City in Taipei on May 20, 2016.
* Helped India break the 18-year-old National record in 4x100m women relay event, while finishing fourth at the IAAF World Challenge in Beijing on May 18, 2016.
* Won one Gold in 200m sprint, one Silver each in women 100m sprint and 4x100m relay events of the 12th South Asian Games, held at Guwahati on Feb 9 and 10, 2016.
* Won one Bronze medal as member of the Indian 4x100m women relay team in the third and final leg of the Asian Grand Prix Series at Chanthaburi (Thailand) on June 29, 2015.
* Won one Bronze medal each in women 100m sprint (11.72 secs) and women 4x100m relay events in the second leg of the Asian Grand Prix Athletics Series at Pathum Thani in Thailand on June 25, 2015.
* Won the women 100m Bronze, clocking 11.58 secs in the first leg of the Asian Grand Prix Athletics Series at Bangkok in Thailand on June 22, 2015.
* Won the women 200m Bronze, clocking 23.54 secs in the 21st Asian Athletics Championship at Wuhan in China on June 4, 2015. She was also a member of the Indian women’s 4x100m relay quartet that finished fourth.
* Represented India in the 17th Asian Games, held at Incheon (Republic of Korea) from Sept 19 to Oct 4, 2014.
* Helped India win a Bronze medal in women`s 4x100 metre relay event of the 19th Commonwealth Games with a timing of 45.25 seconds at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi on October 12, 2010.
* Won Gold medal in women 4x100m relay 14th Asian Junior Athletics Championship, Hanoi, Vietnam, 4 July, 2010.
* Won the girls 4x100 metre relay Gold in the Youth Commonwealth Games at Pune in 2008.
* Represented India in the 13th Asian Junior Athletics Championship at Jakarta, Indonesia in June, 2008.
* Bagged a Bronze medal each in 100 and 200 meter sprint events of the SAF Games in Colombo in 2007.
AWARDS/HONOURS:
* Bagged the 24 th Ekalavya Award along with a cheque of Rs 5 lakh in Bhubaneswar on November 2, 2016.
* Received the Biju Patnaik State Sports Award and a cheque of Rs 1 lakh as the Sportsperson of the Year-2008 at Bhubaneswar on March 5, 2011.
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
* Has been training and competing in Jamaica since 2018.
* OHPC promoted her to the post of Assistant Manager (Group-A) in 2018.
* She was felicitated with a cheque worth Rs 3 lakh by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on the occasion of inauguration of new facilities of Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on July 1, 2017.
* On August 29, 2016, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik felicitated her with a cheque of Rs 5 lakh for representing India in Rio Olympics 2016.
* On July 26, 2016, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik directed Odisha Mining Corporation to provide her a special incentive of Rs 10 lakh for participation in Rio Olympic Games.
* The achievement of qualifying for 2016 Rio Olympics fetched Dutee cash awards of Rs 1 lakh from Odisha Cricket Association and Rs 50,000 each from Odisha Olympic Association and Odisha Athletic Association on July 16, 2016.
* Good Samaritan Trust felicitated her with the Sportslogon Sportsperson of the Year Award and a cash prize of Rs 25,000 in Bhubaneswar on July 10, 2016.
* Odisha Government appointed her as Junior Manager in the Odisha Hydro Power Corporation (OHPC) on May 23, 2016.
* Joined State Sports Hostel, Bhubaneswar in 2002.
* Received training in South Africa, under Mittal Champions Trust in South Africa and Astralia in 2009 and 2011.
PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 25 April 2009
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 3 November 2023