Soma Biswas
Indian heptathlete
Soma Biswas (born 16 May 1978 in Ranaghat[1]) is an Indian former athlete from West Bengal who represented India in the heptathlon. She rose to fame when she won the silver medal in 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. She won another silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha. She won the 110m hurdles, the 200m and the 800m during that heptathlon. Biswas worked with Kuntal Rai and several foreign coaches.[2][3]
Awards
- She was one of the recipients of the prestigious Arjuna Award for Athletics (year 2003). [2][usurped]
See also
References
External links
- Soma Biswas at World Athletics
- Soma Biswas at Olympedia
- Soma Biswas at Athens
- Profile at Doha 2006
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Asian Athletics Champions in women's heptathlon
- 1973†: Lin Chun-yu (TPE)
- 1975†: Kyoko Shimizu (JPN)
- 1979†–81: Ye Peisu (CHN)
- 1983: Hisako Hashimoto (JPN)
- 1985: Ye Lianying (CHN)
- 1987–1989: Dong Yuping (CHN)
- 1991: Zhu Yuqing (CHN)
- 1993: Ghada Shouaa (SYR)
- 1995: Svetlana Kazanina (KAZ)
- 1998: Ding Ying (CHN)
- 2000–02: Svetlana Kazanina (KAZ)
- 2003: Irina Naumenko (KAZ)
- 2005: Soma Biswas (IND)
- 2007: Irina Naumenko (KAZ)
- 2009: Yuliya Tarasova (UZB)
- 2011–13: Wassana Winatho (THA)
- 2015: Ekaterina Voronina (UZB)
- 2017: Swapna Barman (IND)
- 2019-23: Ekaterina Voronina (UZB)
† Pentathlon was held from 1973 to 1979
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