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P. T. Usha (Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha) is an Indian track star. Her initials stand for her family/house name, according to tradition in many parts of Kerala.Usha made her international debut at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 but she shone into the limelight in the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, winning the silver in the 100 m and 200 m event. At the Asian Meet in Jakarta in 1985 Usha established herself as the Asian sprint queen with five gold medals (in the 100meters, 200m, 400m, 400m hurdles and the 4x400m relay) besides a bronze in the 100m relay.
The finest moment in Usha's career and also perhaps the saddest however came in a single race at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. In the 400m hurdles Usha missed winning the bronze by just 1/100th of a second. She recorded her best time of 55.42secs in that race -- still an Indian national record -- but lost the medal in a photo-finish. Usha said that she cried after the event because "It was difficult to believe that I had missed an Olympic medal by a whisker."
In 1991, she married V. Srinivasan, and their son Ujjwal was born the following year. Although she enjoyed domesticity and motherhood, she was drawn back to athletics, and astonished the country by winning bronze medals in the 200 m and 400 m at the Asian Track Federation meet in Japan, 1999. And, silencing her critics, at the age of 34 she set a new national record for the 200m, improving on her own previous record.
P. T. Usha started a School of Athletics for training young girls from all over the country. The School, located at Koyilandi near Kozhikode in Kerala, recruits children in the 10-12 age group. Where young girls in Indian are often constrained to stay at home, she dared to run, and she still runs for India.
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