Odisha’s Bapi Hansda clinches silver at Asian Youth Athletics Championship in Tashkent

Bhubaneswar: Bapi Hansda, a track and field athlete from Odisha, has won silver in 400m hurdles for boys at 5th Asian Youth Athletics Championship in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan.

Bapi covered the distance in 51.38 seconds, sources said.

The 17-year-old athlete had won gold in 400m hurdles at the 18th National Youth Athletics Championship.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik congratulated Bapi for his achievement at 5th Asian Youth Athletics Championship.

Notably, Patnaik had felicitated Bapi with a cash award of Rs 25 lakh for his gold-winning performance at the 18th National Youth Athletics Championship.

Bapi, who hails from Balasore, is the youngest of five siblings and he had lost his father in 2008. After lot of personal struggles, he found his passion for athletics and was spotted by the HPC for his talent and inducted into the Kalinga Stadium in 2019. Within a short period, he displayed exceptional talent and work ethics which impressed the coaches. Since then, he has been a part of the Endurance training programme at the athletic High Performance Centre, sources said.

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