Srabani Nanda


Srabani Nanda is an Indian woman sprint runner specializing in 100 m relay">100 metre">100 m relay, 100 m and 200 m events. Nanda represented India in the Athletics at the [2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metres|women’s 200 m] event at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Achievements

International

Srabani Nanda was at the Rio Olympics 2016, in the women's 200 m category. Srabani clocked 23.07 seconds at the G Kosanov Memorial Meet in Almaty 2016 to seal her berth. The qualifying mark was set at 23.20 seconds. She won a gold medal and silver medal in 200 and 100 metre sprint respectively at the 2016 South Asian Games in Assam. She also helped India win a bronze medal in women's 4 × 100 metre relay event of the 2010 Commonwealth Games with a timing of 45.25 seconds at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi on 12 October 2010, with Geetha Satti, P. K. Priya and H. M. Jyothi.
She had been part of the girls 4x100 metre relay gold in the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games at Pune and she won a bronze medal in both the 100 and 200 metre sprint events of the SAF Games in Colombo in 2007.
In 2017 she won a bronze medal at the 2017 [Asian Athletics Championships|2017 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres] in Bhubaneswar. In the relay with Dutee Chand, Merlin K Joseph and Himashree Roy.

National

Nanda won two silver medals in women's 100 m sprint and 4 × 100 m relay with Anuradha Biswal, Renubala Mahanta and Saraswati Chand in the 15th National Senior Federation Cup Athletics Championship held at Ranchi, Jharkhand from 1 to 4 May 2010. She collected another double, winning the u-20 girls 100 m and 200 m gold medals in the 25th National Junior Athletics Championship at Warangal on 20 November 2009.