FULL NAME: Parbati Sethi
GENDER: Female
BORN: January 1, 1980 (Cuttack)
PARENTS: Rama Chandra Sethi (Father) Radha Sethi (Mother)
PRESENT ADDRESS: Railway Colony, College Square, Cuttack, Odisha, India
PERMANENT ADDRESS: At/PO- Tangi, District- Khurda, Odisha, India
MARITAL STATUS: Married Kuber Behera, a police employee, in 2004
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Plus Two pass
PROFESSION: Works for East Coast Railway at Cuttack as TTI. Joined Railways in 2000.
TYPE OF ATHLETE: Discus, shot put and hammer thrower
PERSONAL BEST: 48.1m (Discus)
EARLY DAYS: Spent eight years (1992 to 2000), honing her skill at the Government Sports Hostel, Bhubaneswar
COACH: Arun Kumar Das (Sports Hostel), Anup Kumar Mitra (Cuttack)

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:
*     Won the womens discus gold and shot put silver medal at the 67th Odisha State Athletics Meet, held at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack from 28-30 December, 2019.
*     Discus throw Silver medal in the 66th Odisha State Athletics Meet, held at Cuttack from Dec 28-30, 2018.
*     Shot put Gold medal with new meet and state record (47.57m) in the 64th Odisha State Athletics Championship, held at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack from April 2 to 4, 2017.
*     Discus throw Gold medal in the 63rd Odisha State Athletics Meet, held at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack, from Dec 28 to 30, 2015.

NATIONAL:
*     Won two Gold medals (shot put and discuss throw) in the 5th National Masters Games, held at BHU, Varanasi (UP) from 11-14 February 2023.
*     Bagged a double, winning both the won shot put and discus throw gold medals in the 4th National Masters Games, held at Cjhandrasekharan Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from 18-22 May 2022.
*     Discus throw Silver medal in Indian Grand Prix-4, held at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula on 6 March, 2019.
*     Discus throw Bronze medal in the Indian Grand Prix-3 at War Heroes Stadium, Sangrur, Punjab on March 2, 2019.
*     One Gold medal each in discus and shot put and one Silver in hammer events of the National Master Games (Athletics Section), held at Dehradun, Uttarakhand from 24 Feb-2 March, 2019.
*   Discus throw Silver medal in the Indian Grand Prix-1, held at NS NIS, Patiala on Feb 27, 2018.
*     Both discus and shot put Gold medal in 1st National Masters Games, held at Chandigarh in 2018.
*     Discus throw Bronze medal in 84th All India Railway Athletics Championship at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 2017.
*     Discus gold medal in the second leg of the Indian Grand Prix, held at JN Stadium in New Delhi on May 11, 2017.
*     Discus gold medal in the first leg of Indian Grand Prix-1, held at Netaji Institute of Sports Complex in Patiala on May 7, 2017.
*     Discus throw Bronze medal in 83rd All India Railway Athletics Championship at Tiruchy, 2017.
*     Discus throw Bronze medal in 81st All India Railway Athletics Championship at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 2015.
*     Discus throw Silver medal in the 50th National Open Athletics Championship at Maharaja College Stadium in Kochi on May 17, 2010.
*     Discus throw Silver medal in 15th Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championship at Ranchi, Jharkhand, 2010.
*     Discus throw Silver medal in Indian Grand Prix-5 at Ranchi, Jharkhand, 2009.
*     Discus throw Bronze medal in Indian Grand Prix-4 at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, 2009.
*     Discus throw Silver medal in 74th All India Railway Athletics Championship at Pune, Maharashtra, 2009.
*    Discus throw Bronze medal in the 48th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Champinoship, held at Madurai from June 15 to 18, 2008.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Silver medal in discus and Bronze in shot put events of the European Masters Gamesat, held in Torino, Italy from 26 July to 4 August, 2019.
*     One Gold and one Silver in 35-plus discus and shot put events respectively in the 1st Asia Pacific Masters Games, held at Penang, Malaysia from Sept 7-15, 2018.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     On June 18, 2014, State Sports Department announced in her favour a monetary incentive of Rs 16,000 for winning the Senior National bronze at Madurai in 2008.
*     She has one son named Aditya Behera.
*     She considers Bhagaban Mohapatra as her god father.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 23 September 2008
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 14 February 2023