Sathi Geetha (born 5 July 1983) is an Indian
track and field
Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...
athlete from
Palakollu, Andhra Pradesh. She is a sprinter specializing in the
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is ...
.
Sathi Geetha was born on 5 July 1983 in
Maruteru, coming from a Telugu Hindu traditional and small middle-class family.
Geetha finished seventh in
4 × 400 metres relay
The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track and field, track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap, totaling 1600 meters. It is traditionally the final event of ...
at the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece.
The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
, together with teammates
K. M. Beenamol,
Chitra K. Soman and
Rajwinder Kaur. Geetha also won a silver medal at the 2005 Asian Championships in a personal best time of 51.75 seconds.
See also
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List of Asian Games medalists in athletics
This is the complete list of Asian Games medalists in Track and field, athletics from 1951 to 2018.
Men
100 m
200 m
400 m
800 m
1500 m
5000 m
10,000 m
110 m hurdles
400 m hurdles
3000 m steeplechase
4 × 100 m relay
4 × 40 ...
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List of National Sports Award recipients in athletics
External links
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1983 births
Living people
Athletes from Andhra Pradesh
Sportswomen from Andhra Pradesh
Indian female sprinters
Olympic female sprinters
Olympic athletes for India
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Asian Games gold medalists for India
Asian Games athletes for India
Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for India
Recipients of the Dhyan Chand Award
Asian Athletics Championships winners
21st-century Indian women
21st-century Indian people
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