Dutee Chand Age, Caste, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Dutee Chand

• Dutee Chand is an Indian sprinter. She has represented India within the Olympics and the Asian Games and has gained a number of medals for India.

• In 2006, Dutee and her elder sister Saraswati have been enrolled in a Government Sports Hostel, Bhubaneshwar. Her father enrolled them as he had 7 youngsters and there have been extra mouths to feed than there was cash within the pocket.
  

  Dutee Chand With Her Parents

• NALCO (National Aluminium Company) CMD Dr T. Okay Chand lauded Dutee for her silver double within the 100 and 200 metres that introduced glory to the Country and State.
  

  CMD Of NALCO Presenting Dutee With A Token Of Appreciation

• Her family was so financially weak that they hadn’t sufficient meals to get correct vitamin and to satisfy her dietary necessities, Dutee used to eat in her village capabilities like marriages and birthday events.

• On the recommendation of her sister, Dutee used to dash in naked feet together with the banks of his village river.

• At the skilled degree, the primary shoe that Dutee wore was a pair of Goldstar sneakers. According to Dutee, it took her 2 to three weeks to get recurring in sneakers.

• In 2015, Chand grew to become the primary individual to win a case towards the International Association of Athletics Federation for its rule on hyperandrogenism, within the Court of Arbitration for Sports. The rule prohibited athletes with excessive testosterone ranges to compete in monitor and discipline occasions.

• She gained a Tata Nano automobile within the 2013 School Nationals.
  

  Dutee Chand After Winning Tata Nano

• In June 2014, she gained the 200m and the 4x100m relay occasions on the sixteenth Asian Junior Athletics Championship in Taipei, China.
  

  Dutee Chand After Winning In Taipei

• In 2014, she shifted to Hyderabad and received educated at Pullela Gopichand Academy. She received educated with boys underneath the steering of Coach N Ramesh.
  

  Dutee Chand With Her Coach N Ramesh

• Her elder sister, Saraswati, took up a job within the police to help Dutee get by means of the hardships and obtain her objectives.

• In 2016, she grew to become the primary Indian girls sprinter to take part within the Olympics 100 metre particular person occasion. She clocked 11.30 seconds within the 100m relay, beating the Rio Olympics qualification mark of 11.32 seconds.
  

  Dutee Chand In Rio Olympics

• In 2016, she missed the Olympic qualifier mark by one-hundredth of a second within the 4x100m girls’s occasion.

• On 28 April 2016, she created a National Record within the 100m occasion by clocking 11.33 seconds and beating Richa Mistry’s 16-year previous report of 11.38 seconds.

• On 23 May 2016, she was appointed as a Manager within the Odisha Mining Corporation by the Odisha Government.

• On 26 July 2016, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik directed the Odisha Mining Corporation to supply her with an incentive of 10 Lacs INR to arrange for the Rio Olympic Games.

• She acquired a Certificate of Recognition from the Olympians Association of India on 31 March 2019.
  

  Certificate of Recognition to Dutee Chand By The Olympians Association of India

• In 2018, she gained her first Asian Games dash. She competed within the Women’s 100 metres finals and gained the silver medal.
  

  Dutee Chand After Winning Her First Asian Games Medal

• The 23-year-old said that after the Supreme Court’s determination to decriminalize Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, she received the arrogance to disclose that she was in a relationship with a lady.

• She grew to become India’s first brazenly homosexual athlete. She was lauded throughout the nation for revealing that she was in a relationship with a lady.

• On 10 July 2019, she grew to become the primary Indian to win a Gold medal within the 100m occasion on the thirtieth Summer University Games (World Universiade) in Naples, Italy. She accomplished the monitor in 11.32 seconds and was within the lead from begin to end.
  

  Dutee Chand With Her 100m Gold At World Universiade

• Dutee Chand is the primary athlete in India who has damaged her personal information for seven occasions.

• According to Dutee, she doesn’t imagine in orthodoxy.

• On 1 November 2019, she appeared on the particular “Karamverr” present of KBC season 11 together with Hima Das. 

• In November 2019, Dutee Chand was featured within the prestigious Time Magazine’s 100 Next.

• Here’s an attention-grabbing video about Dutee Chand’s biography: