Anil kumar prakash biography of abraham
Anil kumar prakash biography of abraham
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Anil Kumar Prakash
Indian athlete
For other people named Anil Kumar, see Anil Kumar (disambiguation).
SapperAnil Kumar Prakash (born 28 August 1978) is a retired Indian sprinter.
He held the 100 metres national record of 10.30 s set at the National Circuit Athletic Meet held in New Delhi in 2005 which was broken in 2016.[2][3][4]
He previously held the National Record at 10.21 seconds.
Early life
Kumar was born on 28 August 1978 in Alappuzha district in the Indian State of Kerala.[5] He studied at T. K. Madhava Memorial College, Nangiarkulangara. He took up decathlon in his college days and later took to sprints inspired by the successes of the P.
T. Usha.[6]
In 1994, he joined the Madras Engineer Group via sports quota. Running in the Army Championships the same year, he was timed at 10.30 seconds in the 100 metres heats on a handheld stopwatch, and attributing it to human error, a second was added to make it 11.30 sec