Anju Bobby George

Anju Bobby George, malayalam: അഞ്ജു ബോബി ജോര്ജ്ജ്, (born Anju Markose; born April 19, 1977 in Changanasseri, Kerala ) is an Indian track and field athlete.

Life

In the Asian Games 2002, she won gold in the long jump and was fourth in the triple jump. In the same year she won bronze in the long jump at the Commonwealth Games 2002. At the World Indoor Championships 2003, she was seventh. In the summer, she won the bronze medal at the World Championships with 6.70 meters. This was the first athletics medal for India in a global competition, since Norman Pritchard who won at the Olympic Games in 1900 two silver medals.

In the 2004 Olympics she set a personal best with 6.83 meters and finished sixth. At the World Championships 2005, she was ranked 5th In the Commonwealth Games 2006, she was ranked 6th In the World Athletics Final in Monte Carlo in 2005, she won with a jump of 6.75 m the silver medal. The former champion Tatjana Kotova (6.83 m) from Russia was transferred by a subsequently carried out doping test their blood sample from the 2005 World Championships of fraud and suspended by the IAAF in 2013. As a result, Anju Bobby George was subsequently awarded the gold medal.

Their best performance in the triple jump of 13.67 meters.

In 2003 she was awarded the Arjuna Award and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2004, the highest state honor for athletes in India. In 2004 she was awarded the Padma Shri civilian award.

At a height of 1.77 her competition weight is 62 kg. She is married since 2001 with the triple jumper Bobby George.