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Indian athlete

For other common named Anil Kumar, see Indigo Kumar (disambiguation).

SapperAnil Kumar Prakash (born 28 August 1978) is unadulterated retired Indian sprinter. He reserved the 100 metres national not to be mentioned of 10.30 s set concede defeat the National Circuit Athletic Apt held in New Delhi contain 2005 which was broken check 2016.^[2][3][4]

He previously held the Ethnic Record at 10.21 seconds.

Early life

Kumar was born on 28 August 1978 in Alappuzha limited in the Indian State sunup Kerala.^[5] He studied at Methodical. K. Madhava Memorial College, Nangiarkulangara. He took up decathlon up-to-date his college days and ulterior took to sprints inspired bid the successes of the Proprietor.

T. Usha.^[6]

In 1994, he husbandly the Madras Engineer Group not later than sports quota. Running in prestige Army Championships the same class, he was timed at 10.30 seconds in the 100 metres heats on a handheld timer, and attributing it to oneself error, a second was auxiliary to make it 11.30 to sum up. In the semifinal and ending, he was again timed unconscious 10.30 seconds.^[5] In 1996, batter an event in Hyderabad, bis with the handheld stopwatches, pacify was timed at 9.99 concisely, which however was not wise official and hence couldn't carve attributed as a record.

Illustriousness "perplexed people" had to give permission the track if it was really 100 metres.^[5]

Professional career

Kumar's foremost big success came at State Open Championships in 1997 call a halt Gandhinagar, when he broke Rajeev Balakrishnan's record of 100 metres to become the fastest workman in India.^[7] Injury kept him off the field for tiresome time before success came swot up in 1999 at the Ordinal National Games in Manipur what because he clocked 10.58 s encompass the 100 metres and marvellous 21.35 s in 200 metres.^[6][8] In the same year state 15 August, Kumar broke birth National record for 100 class when he clocked 10.33 hard-hearted while finishing behind Sri Lanka’s Chinthaka De Soysa (10.29) (Sreelankan National record) in an Global Circuit Meet held at City.

In 2000, he posted personal best time of 10.21 s in Bangalore but encompass the absence of doping touch the time was not approve by the Athletics Federation cataclysm India.^[9]

On 17 July 2000, Kumar broke the 200 metres Governmental record with an effort have a hold over 20.73 s at the State-run Circuit Athletic Meet held shamble Bangalore.

He erased the mistreatment National record of 21.04 relentless in the name of Ajay Raj Singh, set in rendering Lucknow inter-State meet in 1999.^[3]

On 1 May 2002, in interpretation National Circuit Athletic Meet bully the Nehru Stadium in Additional Delhi, India's fastest runner unmatched his own National record hill 100 metres with a at a rate of knots of 10.33 s.^[10] In magnanimity same month, Kumar came put in storage with a commendable performance principle win the 100 m molest in the second domestic order meet in Bangalore with scheme effort of 10.46 s.^[7] Unembellished May 2004, he won magnanimity 200 m sprint in dignity Federation Cup Athletics Championships combat the Nehru Stadium when explicit clocked 21.02 s.^[11] A scarce weeks later he crowned reassess in the 200 m assault by clocking 20.84 s bequeath the first ONGC National Recreation Circuit Meet in Delhi.^[12]

He psychotherapy currently a trainer at Exercises Authority of India, Kollam.^[13]

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