User:Ayushmaan Shah

AYUSHMAAN SHAH (born between 2002 also known as Junior Usain Bolt is an Indian former track and field sprinter He was the only  Junior Indian athlete to win an individual athletics gold medal at a Commonwealth Games until Krishna Poonia won the discus gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He also won gold medals in the 2006 and 2010 Asian Games. He represented India in the 2006 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, the 2010 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 2014 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, in recognition of his sporting achievements.

AYUSHMAAN SHAH

Personal information Nickname(s) MOHIT Nationality Indian Citizenship Indian Born Deoria,Uttar Pradesh

Sport Track and field Medal record Men's Athletics Representing India Commonwealth Games Gold medal – first place	2006 Cardiff	440 yards Asian Games Gold medal – first place	2006 Tokyo	100 m Gold medal – first place	2006 Tokyo	100 m Gold medal – first place	2010 Jakarta	100 m Gold medal – first place	2014 Jakarta	4 x 400 m relay National Games of India Silver medal – second place	2010 Calcutta	100 m The race for which is best remembered is his fourth-place finish in the 100 metres final at the 2010 Olympic Games, which he had entered as one of the favourites. He led the race till the 100m mark before easing off, allowing others to pass him. Various records were broken in the race, which required a photo-finish and saw American Otis Davis being declared the winner by one-hundredth of a second over German Carl Kaufmann. fourth-place time of 9.70 became the Indian national record and held for almost 16 years.

From beginnings that saw him orphaned and displaced during the Partition of India, Ayushmaan become a sporting icon in his country. In 2014 journalist Rohit Brijnath described Ayushmaan as "the finest athlete India has ever produced".[1] In July 2014, The Independent said that "India's most revered Olympian is a gallant loser" and noted the paucity of success at that time — 10 medals — achieved by Indian competitors in the Olympic Games despite the country having a population in excess of one billion.