BEHERA JAYANTI


Gender : Female
Father : Kunja Behera
Mother : Ashamani Behera
Address : Manitri Sahi, Sakhigopal, Puri, Odisha, India
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Education : studied in Sri Ram Chandrapur High School in Sakhigopal
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Coaching From : Bishnu Prasad Mishra
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GALLERY

NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL

28-Dec-2018
* Won women’s 400m gold and 800m silver at the 66th Odisha State Athletics Meet, held at Cuttack from Dec 28-30, 2018.
28-Dec-2017
* Bagged a double by winning gold medals in U-20 girls’ 400m and 800m events of the 65th Odisha State Athletics Championship, held at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack from Dec 28-30, 2017.
28-Dec-2015
* Bagged a double by winning titles in (girls-20) 800m and 1500m events of the 63rd Odisha State Athletics Meet, held at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack, from Dec 28 to 30, 2015.
10-Sep-2016
Won one silver and one bronze medal in girls-20 discus (37.46m) and 1500m (5.08.1s) events respectively in the 28th East Zone Junior Athletics Championship, held at Guwahati, Assam on Sept 10 and 11, 2016.
18-Mar-2023
Bagged a treble by winning 3 Gold medals (one each in 100m,200m and 400m) in womens T-47 category of the 21st National Para Athletics Championship, held at Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Pune from 18-20 March 2023.
18-Aug-2022
* Won two Gold (100m, 200m) and one Silver (400m) medals in the 4th Indian Open National Para Athletics Championship, held at Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on 18 and 19 August 2022.
22-Mar-2022
* Adjudged as the Best Woman Athlete, bagging 3 Gold medals in 100m, 200m and 400m T-47 category at the 20th National Para Athletics Championship, held at Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar from 22-31 March 2022.
19-Dec-2021
* Bagged a treble, winning 3 gold medals (100m, 200m, 400m) at the 3rd Indian Open National Para Athletics Championship, held in Bangalore on 19-20 December 2021.
26-Mar-2021
* Clinched a treble by winning 3 gold medals (100m, 200m and 400m) in women T-47 category of the 19th National Para Athletics Championship at Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on 26 March, 2021. This was the 5th successive time that Jayanti bagged a treble in the National Para Athletics Championship.
05-May-2023
* Bagged a glorious treble, winning 3 Gold medals (one each in womens 100m, 200m and 400m) in the 5th Indian Open Para Athletics International Championship, held at Shree Kanteerava Stadium, Bengaluru from 5-7 May 2023.
22-Mar-2022
* Won one Silver (200m) and two Bronze (100m, 400m) medals at the World Para Athletics Dubai Grand Prix between 22-24 March 2022.
22-Mar-2022
* Won one Silver (200m) and two Bronze (100m, 400m) medals at the World Para Athletics Dubai Grand Prix between 22-24 March 2022.

* Finished sixth in 400m event of the World Senior Para Athletics Championships, held at London in July 2017. She was the youngest Indian competitor at 17.
26-Nov-0202
* Won two Gold (200m, 400m) and one Silver medal in women T46-47 category of the IWAS World Games 2022 at Vila Real de Santo Antonio in Portugal betwee 26 and 28 November 2022.
13-May-2017
* Won one Gold in 400m and one Silver in 200m events of the China Open Para Athletics Grand Prix Championships held from May 13 to 15, 2017.

OTHER IMPORTANT DATA

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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik felicitated Jayanti for winning 3 medals at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai and presented her with cash award of Rs 15 lakh at his residence in Bhubaneswar on 26 March 2022.
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* In January, 2019, she was selected to be included in Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) for 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
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* She is supported by the GoSports Foundation through the Para Champions Programme.
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* Her mother is a housewife and father works as a daily laborer in coconut plantations of Sakhigopal.

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