Mufananidzo: Twitter Akazvarwa muna 1960 uye achibva kuOttathai, Kerala's Kannur dunhu, Manathoor Devasai Valsamma, anozivikanwa sa MD Valsamma, mutambi weIndia anodada akasiya pamudyandigere nhasi. Ndiye mukadzi wechiIndia wekutanga kuwana menduru yegoridhe pachiitiko chepasi rose pavhu reIndia uye wechipiri mukadzi wechiIndia mumhanyi mushure meKamaljeet Sandhu kuhwina ega goridhe kuAsian Games. Yake rekodhi nguva yemasekonzi makumi mashanu nesere.47 mumakwikwi e400 metres hurdles panhandare yeJawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi yakamutungamira kuhwina menduru yegoridhe kumitambo yeAsia ya1982. Mutambi akave shasha yenyika nerekodhi idzva iri raive nani pane rekodha yekuAsia!
Valsamma akange ari mumitambo kubva pamazuva ake echikoro asi akakoshesa nezvazvo ndokutanga kuitsvaga sebasa mushure mekunge aenda kunodzidza kuMercy College, Palakkad, Kerala. Akahwina menduru yake yekutanga kudunhu mumakwikwi e100 metres hurdles uye pentathlon, chiitiko chemumhanyi chine masanganiswa mashanu akasiyana - 100 metres hurdles, kusvetuka-svetuka, kupfura, kusvetuka kwakakwirira uye 800 metres kumhanya. Menduru yehupenyu hwake yekutanga yakapinda muInter-University Championship, Pune muna 1979. Nguva pfupi yapfuura, akanyoreswa kuSouthern Railways yeIndia uye akadzidziswa pasi paA. K. Kutty, murairidzi wemumhanyi aive nemukurumbira akapihwa mubairo wepamusoro weDronarcharya muna 2010.
Mumazuva ekutanga ebasa rake remitambo, Valsamma akahwina menduru dzegoridhe shanu nekuda kwekuita kwake kwemuenzaniso mumamita zana, 400 metres hurdles, 400 metres flat uye 400 metres, uye 100 metres relay kuInter-State Meet, Bangalore muna 1981. Uku kubudirira kunofadza akamutungamirira kuzvikwata zvenyika uye muRailways. Muna 1984, kekutanga, boka revakadzi vana veIndia rakapinda mufainari muLos Angeles Olympics, uye Valsamma aiva mumwe wavo, pamwe chete naP. Usha naShiny Wilson. Asi Valsamma anga asiri muchimiro chakanaka chepfungwa pamberi peOlympics, nekuda kwekushaikwa kweruzivo rwemumhanyi wepasi rese. Pamusoro pezvo, murairidzi wake Kutty akacheneswa nguva dzapera, izvo zvakaita kuti asave nenguva shoma yekudzidzira uye zvakakanganisa gadziriro dzake dzepfungwa. Paive nemutambo wakawanda wemakwikwi pamberi peOlympics pakati pake naPT Usha, iyo yakanyura munjanji, asi ushamwari hwavo hwekunze hwakavabatsira mukuchengetedza kuwirirana uye ruremekedzo kunyangwe panguva idzodzo dzakaoma. Uye Valsamma akafara zvikuru kuona Usha achibudirira mumakwikwi e400 metres, apo akaburitswa mumutambo wekutanga pachawo mumaOlympics. Zvikuru, timu yakange yawana chinzvimbo chechinomwe mumakwikwi e4X400 metres pachiitiko ichi.
Gare gare, Valsamma akatanga kuisa pfungwa dzake pazvipingamupinyi zvemamita zana uye akaenderera mberi nekugadzira imwe rekodhi yenyika pamitambo yekutanga yeNyika muna 1985. Mubasa remitambo rakatora makore anoda kusvika 15, akahwina menduru dzegoridhe, sirivheri, dzebhuronzi paSpartakyad 1983, South Asian. Federation (SAF) yezviitiko zvitatu zvakasiyana zvevatambi. Akatora chikamu mumakwikwi eWorld Cup muHavana, Tokyo, London, iyo Asian Games editions ya1982, 1986, 1990 na1994 mumitambo yese yeAsia neminda. Akasiya mamakisi ake mumakwikwi ega ega nekuhwina menduru dzakawanda.
Hurumende yeIndia yakapa Valsamma Mubairo weArjuna muna 1982 uye mubairo wePadma Shri muna 1983 nekuda kwekubatsira kwake kukuru uye kugona mumunda wemitambo. Akagamuchirawo mubairo wemari weGV Raja kubva kuHurumende yeKerala. Ndirwo rwakanga ruri rwendo rwaValsamma mumitambo, nyaya inokurudzira kusvika nhasi nekuti aita kuti India idade!
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