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Sporting Witness: P.T. Usha - India's 'queen of track and field'

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P.T. Usha - India's 'queen of track and field'

BBC World Service - Sporting Witness, P.T. Usha - India's 'queen of track and field'

How the fastest woman in India came agonisingly close to Olympic glory in 1984

How the fastest woman in India came agonisingly close to Olympic glory in 1984.

In the 1980s, P.T. Usha, a sprinter and hurdler from the southern Indian state of Kerala, became the first woman from her country to achieve major success in athletics. But in 1984 she missed out on a medal at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles by an agonising 100th of a second. P.T. Usha talks to Farhana Haider.

(Photo: P.T. Usha in action in the 1980s. Credit: Getty Images)

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