Parul Chaudhary (Athlete) Height, Age, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Parul Chaudhary

• Parul Chaudhary is an Indian athlete who is thought for collaborating in monitor and subject sports activities together with long-distance working. She specialises in 5000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase. She is the primary Indian runner to finish the ladies’s 3000m in below 9 minutes. In October 2023, she gained a gold medal within the 5000 m occasion and silver within the 3000 m steeplechase on the Hangzhou Asian Games.

• She belongs to the Jhajj gotra.

• When she was at school, she used to run barefoot and took half within the first 800 meters in 2011 at school.

• She by no means deliberate on turning into an athlete and took up the game when her father requested her to take part in a faculty race. In an interview, she mentioned that in that race, she participated with none preparation. In an interview, her father talked about this and mentioned,
  

  I used to be planning to go watch the sports activities meet at her faculty. I instructed Parul to take part. There was no plan, it was only a suggestion from a father to his daughter. I had no clue she would symbolize India in athletics and attain the ultimate of a World Championships.”

• In an interview, her brother mentioned that after her race at school, she used to run within the sugarcane fields, the principle highway after which again to the village. She used to run together with her sister who had additionally participated within the faculty race together with her.

• Both the sisters used to win many medals and there was a bit stress after they got here house after successful. Parul used to return first and Preeti second, so she used to get upset about it.

• According to her mom, Parul was very chubby when she was a baby. She was heavy to hold however when she began working, she bought match. In an interview, her mom mentioned that after they used to observe, their neighbours handed many sexist feedback on them however their father didn’t take heed to them and supported them so much. Her mom additionally added that when her daughters began successful the medals, individuals nonetheless didn’t cease speaking about them.

• After her participation within the 800 meters, she began collaborating in 1500 m and 3000 m. Later, she switched to 5000 m and competed in it professionally. She trains on the coaching base in Colorado Springs.

• In 2015, when she shifted to Mumbai, she bought a job in Western Railways. She has labored as a ticket examiner at Grant Road station.

• In 2019, she made her private better of 15:36:03 in 5000 m on the Asian Athletics Championship in Doha.
  

  Parul Chaudhary in the course of the Asian Athletics Championship

• In May 2023, she clocked a brand new private better of 9:29.51 on the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix.

• Parul clocked 9:38.76 within the Asian Athletics Championships in Thailand to clinch the Asian title in July 2023.

• In August 2023, she registered a private greatest time and nationwide report within the 3000m steeplechase at 9:15.31 on the World Athletics Championships held in Budapest. The report helped her qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

• In an interview, Parul mentioned that if she had been within the village, she would have been married at an early age. In the interview, she added that folks within the village suppose that women shouldn’t play carrying shorts and lots of of them move feedback in the event that they see women carrying shorts and working.

• According to Parul, her solely goal was to get a authorities job after which stop the game. When she joined the railways in 2015, she didn’t take her equipment together with her however when Diana Edulji, the previous India girls’s captain and railways veteran suggested her to concentrate on working, Parul took half within the Open National and got here fourth. In 2016, she gained a gold medal in an inter-railway meet in Hyderabad. After successful a gold medal, she determined to proceed working.

• Parul achieved a brand new nationwide report within the girls’s 3000-meter occasion on the Sunset Tour in Los Angeles in 2022, breaking Suriya Loganathan’s six-year-old report.

• In July 2022, she accomplished the ladies’s 3000m occasion in 8:57.19, surpassing Loganathan’s nationwide report of 9:04.5.

• She has been within the prime 8 Asian Championship checklist twice.

• She is a 5 occasions nationwide champion.