Chandigarh: Man Kaur (95) who is often called as the ‘golden girl of India’ won two gold medals in the World Masters Athletics 2011 held in USA by Masters Federation of India.
She won gold medals in 100M and 200M in 95+ category in World Masters Athletics 2011 held in Sacramento. She is the only women Indian athlete who holds two world records. She was declared athlete of the year.
Her son, Gurdev Singh who is 74 years old has also won several medals various countries including US and Canada and together they create a unique combination of mother and son participating in a World Level Athletic competition.
Despite being such a high level performer, Man Kaur is not getting any financial help and has to manage on her family pension which is only 6030 rupees. To compete further she needs systematic and highly effective training programme carefully crafted to achieve physical ability to run a 200M race.
Indian Sports News Network
