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Rahamatulla Molla
Rahamatulla Molla (born 30 March 1987) is an Indian former athlete. He won a bronze medal as a member of India's 4 x 100 metres relay team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which set a national record in the final. At the 2010 Asian Games he was fourth in the 4 × 100 metres relay, but the result was annulled when it was revealed that teammate Suresh Sathya had tested positive for nandrolone prior to the games.
Rahul Rohilla
Rahul Rohilla (born 5 July 1996 in Haryana) is an Indian racewalker.
Raj Joshi Tilak
Raj Joshi Tilak (born 1 September 1936) is an Indian sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Raj Kumar
Raj Kumar (born 2 March 1962 in Manoharpura Distt- Jhunjhunu Rajasthan state) is a former Indian track and field athlete. He won the bronze medal in 5000 meters in 1982 Asian Games and the silver medal in the event at the 1983 Asian Championships in Athletics. 4 minutes.
Raj Vadgama
Raj Vadgama is an ultramarathon runner from Mumbai, India
Rajasekaran Pichaya
Rajasekaran Pichaya (born 3 January 1941) is an Indian sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Rajeev Bala Krishnan
Rajeev Bala Krishnan (born 31 March 1971) is an Indian sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Rajesh Bind
Rajesh Kumar Bind (born 20 July 1994) is an Indian javelin thrower. 14 meters at the Junior National Championships in Lucknow in 2012. He was also named the best athlete at the games.
Rajesh Ramesh
Rajesh Ramesh (born 28 March 1999) is an Indian sprinter who specializes in 400 m events. He represented India in the men's 4x400 m relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Rajwinder Kaur
Rajwinder Kaur (born 21 April 1980) is an Indian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. Kaur finished seventh in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics, together with teammates Satti Geetha, K. M. Beenamol and Chitra K. Soman. This team, only with Manjeet Kaur running instead of Geetha, had set a national record of 3:26.89 minutes in the heat.
Rakesh Kumar Yadav
Rakesh Kumar Yadav (born 1 February 1981) is an Indian track and field athlete from Uttar Pradesh who specializes in Hammer throw. 16m in the discipline on 17 July 2003 during the Second National Athletic Circuit Meet in Bangalore. 13 metre mark of Ishtiaq Ahamed set there in the year 2000.
Ram Baboo
Ram Baboo (born 20 March 1999) is an Indian race walker. He won a bronze medal in the 35 km race walk mixed event at the 2022 Asian Games. Baboo met the qualification standard for the 2024 Paris Olympics but did not secure a berth, finishing fourth among athletes from his country, which was restricted to three entries.
Ram Mehar
Ram Mehar (born 24 May 1934) is an Indian athlete. He competed in the men's long jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Ram Singh Yadav
Ram Singh Yadav (born 7 November 1984) is an Indian marathon runner. Ram represented India at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London. He achieved the B qualification standard (2:18:00) by clocking a time of 2:16:59 at the 2012 Mumbai Marathon, which is also his best performance in this event.
Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran
Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran (born 5 January 1954) is an Indian sprinter. He was the gold medalist in the 200 metres in the 1978 Asian Games. He later became a coach.
Ranjit Bhatia
Ranjit Bhatia (27 May 1936 – 9 February 2014) was an Indian athlete and journalist who ran in the marathon and 5000 meters events at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Ranjit Singh
Ranjit Singh (born 25 November 1957) is an Indian former race walker who competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he finished in 18th place. He won silver medal in 1981 Asian Athletics Championships held in Tokyo, Japan. Singh was brought up in Anandpur Sahib, Rupnagar district in northern India.
Raunaq Singh Gill
Raunaq Singh Gill (born 20 February 1910, date of death unknown) was an Indian long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 5000 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Ravinder Singh Khaira
Ravinder Singh Khaira (born 19 March 1986) is an Indian javelin thrower. He is representing India at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
Razia Sheikh
Razia Sheikh is an Indian former track and field athlete, who competed in javelin throw. She was the first Indian woman to cross the barrier of 50 metres, which she did at the 1987 South Asian Games. She represented India at two editions of the Asian Games (1982 Delhi and 1986 Seoul).
Reeth Abraham
Reeth Abraham is an athlete from Bengaluru, India and former Asian medalist in long jump and 100 meters hurdles and the former national champion in heptathlon. She won the Arjuna Award in 1997 and the Rajyotsava Award in 1983. Reeth had a long athletic career spanning over 15 years (1976–1992).
Renjith Maheshwary
Renjith Maheśwary (born 30 January 1986 in Kottayam, Kerala) is an Indian triple jumper. He finished fourth at the 2006 Asian Games and won the 2007 Asian Championships. He also competed at the 2007 World Championships, the 2011 World Championships and the 2013 World Championships but did not reach the final in any of those events.
Revathi Veeramani
Revathi Veeramani is an Indian athlete from Tamil Nadu. She has been selected for representing India at the 2020 Summer Olympics at the event of Mixed 4 × 400m Relay.
Rohit Yadav
Rohit Sabhajeet Yadav (born 6 June 2001) is an Indian javelin thrower.
Ronald Burns
Ronald Bertram Chesney Burns (9 October 1903 – 7 June 1985) was an sprinter from India. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Ronald Vernieux
Ronald Alfred Vernieux (18 October 1910 – 25 May 1997) was an Indian sprinter. He competed in the 100 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Vernieux finished sixth in the 1934 British Empire Games 4×110 yards relay (with Gyan Bhalla, Jahangir Khan and Niranjan Singh); in the 100 yards and 220 yards he was eliminated in the heats.
Rosa Kutty
Rosa Kutty (born 1964) is a former Indian woman athlete who participated in 1996 and 2000 Olympics in 4x 400 relay race. She won silver medal in 1998 Asian Games in 800 mt race. She is from Aayavana, Muvattupuzha in Kerala and now live in Bangalore in Karnataka.
Rubina Yadav
Rubina Yadav (born 14 January 2001) is an Indian athlete from Haryana competing in the high jump event. She was part of the Indian athletics team and finished 9th in the high jump event at the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China. In April, she achieved the qualifying mark for the Asian Games at the Indian Grand Prix-3 at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium In Bengaluru.
Rupal Chaudhary
Rupal Chaudhary (born 23 December 2004) is an Indian track and field athlete specializing in 400 m events.
S. Abdul Hamid
S. Abdul Hamid (1907–22 October 1985), also known as Major S. A. Hamid, was a British Indian track and field athlete. Hamid ran in the 110 metres hurdles and the 400 metres hurdles at the 1928 Summer Olympics at Amsterdam but did not progress from his heat in either race. He was also scheduled to run in the 400 metres and the 4 × 400 metres relay but did not start in either event.
Sabir Ali
Sabir Ali (19 April 1955 – 22 January 2023) was an Indian decathlete. He was an Arjuna award winner (1981). Born in Haryana, Ali won 10 gold medals in the decathlon, including at the 1981 Asian Athletics Championships held at Tokyo, Japan.
Sachin Sarjerao Khilari
Sachin Sarjerao Khilari is an Indian paralympic shot putter.
Sadashir Datar
Sadashiv Datar (born 1885, date of death unknown) was an Indian long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Sagardeep Kaur
Sagardeep Kaur (24 September 1981 – 23 November 2016) was an Indian athlete who won a gold medal in the women's 4x400 metres relay in the 2002 Asian Athletics Championships. Competing at the 2003 World Championships, the Indian team in the 4 × 400 metres relay was knocked out after the initial heat, where they finished in the last place. Her personal best time in the 400 metres was 52.50 seconds, achieved in June 2004 in Chennai.
Sahana Kumari
Sahana Kumari Nagaraj Gobbargumpi (born 6 March 1982) is an Indian former high jumper. She represented India in women's high jump event at the 2012 London Olympics. 92 m, set in 2012.
Sameer Mon
Shameer Mon Naseema Manzile (born 20 October 1983) is an Indian former athlete. He comes from Kerala. Shameer won a bronze medal as a member of India's 4 x 100 metres relay team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which set a national record in the final.
Sammudi Balasubramaniam
Sammudi Balasubramaniam known as Bala, was an athlete from Tamil Nadu who specialises in long jump and triple jump. 14 m in his last attempt. Balasubraminam died in 2016 following injuries from a fall while on pilgrimage to Sabarimala.
Sandeep Chaudhary
Sandeep Chaudhary (born 10 April 1996) is an Indian para javelin thrower. He has represented India at the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Paralympics.
Sandeep Kumar
Sandeep Kumar Punia (born 1 May 1986) is an Indian race walker. Subedar Sandeep Serving in Jat Regiment (16) Indian Army represented India in the 50 km race walk event at the 2016 Rio Olympics and in the 20 km race walk event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he won a bronze in the 10 km race walk event.
Sangeetha Mohan
Sangeetha Mohan (born 2 April 1985) is a former Indian female high jumper. She has represented India at the 2004 Asian Junior Athletics Championships and 2004 South Asian Games. 81m at the South Asian Games history.
Sanjay Kumar Rai
Sanjay Kumar Rai (born 1 May 1979) is an Indian track and field athlete from Uttar Pradesh, India who specializes in the long jump event. He competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games but did not record a valid jump. 03 m at the 2000 Asian Athletics Championships in Jakarta in 2000, where he won the silver medal.
Sanjivani Jadhav
Sanjivani Baburao Jadhav (born 12 July 1996) is an Indian long-distance athlete at 5000m and 10,000m. She had won a bronze medal at 5000m at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships.
Sant Kumar
Sant Kumar is an Indian Olympic middle-distance runner. He represented his country in the men's 1500 meters at the 1980 Summer Olympics. 60.
Santhi Soundarajan
Santhi Soundarajan (also spelled Shanthi Soundararajan, born 17 April 1981) is a track and field athlete from Tamil Nadu, India. She is the winner of 12 international medals for India and around 50 medals for her home state of Tamil Nadu. Soundarajan is the first Tamil woman to win a medal at the Asian Games.
Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan
Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan (born 1 January 1998) is an Indian track and field athlete who specializes in 400 m and 400 m hurdles events. He was part of the men's 4×400 m relay team that represented India at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Sapana Punia
Sapana, also known as Sapana Punia (born 2 January 1988) is a female racewalker from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. She competed in the Women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. She competed in the 20 km walk at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil but did not finish.
Saraswati Saha
Saraswati Dey-Saha (born 23 November 1979) is an Indian former sprinter. 82 seconds set in Ludhiana in 2002. The highlight of her career was the 200 m gold medal she won at the 2002 Asian Games.
Sarita Gayakwad
Saritaben Laxmanbhai Gayakwad (born 1 June 1994) is an Indian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles. She was part of the Indian women's 4 × 400 metres relay team that won the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games. Gujarat Govt.