FULL NAME: Animesh Kujur
GENDER: Male
DATE OF BIRTH: 2 June 2003 (Source: Athletics Federation of India and World Athletics)
PARENTS: Father (), Mother ()
ORIGINAL HOME ADDRESS: Ambikapur, Surguja district, Chhattisgarh, India
PRESENT ADDRESS: Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Pass out from Sainik School, Ambikapur
PROFESSION: Employee of Forest Department, Government of Chhattisgarh, under sports quota.
TYPE OF ATHLETE: 100m and 200m sprinter
HOME CLUB/ACADEMY: Odisha Reliance Foundation Athletics High Performance Centre, Bhubaneswar.
TRAINING PLACE: Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Dinesh Tandi (First coach), Martin Ownens and James Hillier
PERSONAL BEST: 10.39 seconds in 100m and 20.62 seconds in 200m
TEAMS/UNITS REPRESENTED: Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Odisha-Reliance Foundation Athletics HPC

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

NATIONAL:
*     Won 2 Gold medals (mens 100m and 200m) with meet records of 10.38s (semifinals) and 20.65s (final) at the 4th Indian Open U-23 Athletics Competition, held at Patliputra Sports Complex in Patna, Bihar from 28-30 Sept 2024. He also bagged the award as the Best Male Athlete.
*     Won the 4x100m relay Gold medal in the 63rd National Open Athletics Championships at Sree Kanteerava Outdoor Stadium in Bangalore on 1 September 2024.
*     Won the 2 Gold medals (One each in mens 200m with New Meet Record and 4x100m relay) and 1 Silver medal in 100m run in the 63rd National Inter State Senior Athletics Championship, held at Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula, Haryana from 27-30 June 2024.
*     Won one Gold and one Silver medal in 200m and 100m respectively in the the 27th National Federation Senior Athletics Competition, held at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar from 12-15 May 2024.
*     Secured first positions in both mens 100m and 200m events at the Indian Grand Prix-1, held at Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore on 30 April 2024.
*     Won one Gold medal for Odisha-Reliance Foundation Athletics HPC in the 1st National Open Relay Carnival in Chandigarh on 24 March 2024.
*      Won the Bronze medal for Odisha in men 200m event of the 37th National Games at the Athletics Stadium in Bambolim, Goa 2 November 2023.
*     Won the men 200m Gold medal with new meet record of 28.87 for Odisha in the 3rd National Open U-23 Athletics Championships at Sports Complex, Chandigarh on 22 October 2023.
*     Won the 200m Gold medal for Odisha with New Meet Record of 20.74s at the 62nd National Open Athletics Championships at Sree Kanteerava Stadium, Bengaluru on 14 October 2023. He bettered the previous meet record of 20.75 seconds, which had been set by Amlan Borgohain (Assam) in 2021.
*     Won the 200m Silver medal for Chhattisgarh at the 26th National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships on 18 May 2023.
*     Won one Silver and Bronze medal each for Chhattisgarh in 200m and 100m respectively in the Indian Grand Prix-4 at Kanteerava Stadium, Bangalore on 16 April 2023.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Won the mens 200m Silver medal, 20.96 seconds at the B&S Kurpfalz Gala Weinheim Athletics competition in Frankfurt, Germany on 18 May 2024.

OTHER IMPORTANT DATA:
*    Represented Odihsa for the first time at the 62nd National Open Athletics Championships 2023 in Bengaluru.
*     Animesh is the son of parents who are both in the police.
*     Animesh played football during his childhood and school days.
*     He switched over to athletics during COVID-19 pandemic.
*     Wearing normal shoes, he won the 200m race at the 2021 West Zone Junior Athletics Championship in Raipur with a timing of 22.31s.
*     In 2022, he took part in the National Open U-23 Championships in Bilaspur and won the 200m race for Chhattisgarh in 21.12s.
*     It was at this meet that he met Martin Owens, the Head Coach at the Odisha Reliance Foundation Athletics HPC.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 16 October 2023
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 30 September 2024