MAHANTA RANJITA

Date of Birth : 1993-05-07
Gender : Female
Father : (Prahallad Mahanta
Mother : Gurubari Mahanta
Address : : At- Palas Pokhari, PO- Kaunrikela, Dist- Keonjhar, Odisha, India.
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Education : Plus Two Second Year student
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NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL

25-Apr-2010
* Establised two new national record and bagged gold medals to emerge as the best girl (u-18) athlete of the 7th National Youth Athletics Championship, which concluded at Nehru Stadium in Coimbatore (TN) on April 25, 2010. She registered the two national records in 100m and 200m sprints, clocking 12.08 seconds (heats) and 24.49 seconds (final) respectively. She won gold in both the events with a timing of 12.20 seconds in 100m final. Ranjita won her third gold in girls 1000m sprint medley relay with Ros Dipika Baa, Purnima Hembram and Bibiana Kulu as partners (timing: 2:20.32).
20-Nov-2009
* Won one silver in under-18 girls 100m (12.32 secs) and one bronze in 200m (25.30 sect) events of the 25th National Junior Athletics Championship at Warangal (AP) on Nov 20, 2009.
17-Jan-2008
* Bagged three gold medals in girls` under-16 100m (12.0s), 200m (26.0s) and 4x100m relay events of the 2nd National Inter State Athletic Championship at Rourkela in January (17-20), 2008.

* Finished sixth among eight competitors in one of the eight heats of the girls’ 100 meter event of the 6th World Youth Athletics Championship at Bressanone in Italy on July 8, 2009. She clocked an unimpressive 12.75 seconds, which is 0.37 seconds more than her recent National gold winning time of 12.38 seconds.

OTHER IMPORTANT DATA

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* BHP Billiton, a mineral resources company, sent Ranjita accompanied by her father to watch the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
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* Her father was a national athlete. He now serves in the Odisha Police.

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