Who is Animesh Kujur … who has done the entire 100 meter race in 10.18 seconds, history at the age of 22

New Delhi. Sprinter Animesh Kujur has created history for India. Kujur broke the national record with 10.18 seconds in the 100 meter race across the seven seas. 22 -year -old Kujur improved the national record of Gurinderveer Singh’s 100 meters before 10.20 seconds in Greece capital Athens. Greece’s Sotirios Gargaganis (10.23 seconds) and Sammuli Samuelson (10.28 seconds) finished second and third in the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver Label Meet.

Animesh Kujur now has both 100 meters and 200 meters national records. He broke the previous national record by taking 20.32 seconds in the men’s 200 meter finals of the Asian Athletics Championship in South Korea in May. Earlier, the Asian Games silver medalist Mohammad Afsal broke his own national record. And became the first Indian to take time to take time within 1:45 minutes in the men’s 800 meter race in Memorial Cheslawa Sibulskigigo in Pozan, Poland.

Afsal won a silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou. He took out a time of 1: 44.96 minutes and finished sixth in the heat A1 of the tournament. Animesh Kujur, a young runner from Ghitagar village located in Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh, became the second contental level player to win a bronze medal in the Asian Athletics Championship in June last month. He then won a bronze medal with a national record in the 200 meter race.

Animesh Kujur did his early education from Vedner Mission Higher Secondary School in Mahasamund district in Chhattisgarh. He came to Kanker after completion of his studies till class five. Where he completed his further education from St. Michael School, due to the transfer of the father, Animesh Kujur’s education was affected in the initial days. He had to go where the father was transferred.