Asha Roy
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| Born | 5 January 1990 Ghanshyampur, Hooghly, West Bengal, India | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprints | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 100 m: 11.72 (Lucknow 2013) 200 m: 23.59 (Chennai 2013) | ||||||||||||||
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Asha Roy (born 5 January 1990) is an Indian professional sprinter who won the silver medal for 200m in the Asian Track and Field at the 20th Asian Athletics Championships in Pune on 7 July 2013.[1] Roy clocked 11.85 seconds in a 100-meter dash at the 51st National Open Athletics Championships, held at the Yuva Bharti Krirangan, Kolkata in 2011. Roy's record was just short of the national record of 11.38 seconds, which was set by Rachita Mistry in Thiruvananthapuram in 2000.[2] Roy also ran the fastest 200-meter dash, clocking the tape at 24.36 seconds and anchored Bengal's 4 × 100 m relay team, which won the silver with a timing of 47.49 seconds at the Championships.[3]
Roy was born in Ghanshyampur, a village in the Hooghly district of the Indian State of West Bengal, on 5 January 1990, to Bholanath Roy, a door-to-door vegetable-seller, and Bulu Roy, a homemaker. Roy is the third among four daughters of Bholanath Roy and Bulu Roy. The Roy family lives in abject poverty and the sprinter usually was only able to eat two meals a day, with little attention to the kind of nutrition the top athletes need.[2]
Roy studied for her bachelor's degree at the Sriampore College of the Hooghly district. Roy was promised a job and monetary assistance after her performance at the National Open Meet by both, the Indian Railways and the State Government of West Bengal.[2] However, it took Roy almost a year to get a job. Roy was approached by a few Kolkata-based companies to join them as a brand ambassador, but all the opportunities ended in nought. Roy had almost decided to quit the sport, between January 2011 and February 2012, when finally an opportunity came her way. Roy joined South Eastern Railways office in February 2012.[4]
