Indian bike owner Sarita Kumari (Credit: IANS)
Sarita exhibited her prowess within the Junior Women’s class on the latest Asian Track Cycling Championships 2024 in New Delhi, clinching the bronze medal with a powerful closing time of 36.966 seconds.
After clinching a gold medal within the junior Team Sprint occasion on the Asian Track Cycling Championships right here, India’s Sarita Kumari, whose father works as a mason in Jharkhand, desires to present a greater life for her mother and father.
Her journey to the rostrum is inspirational. Despite her father’s occupation of constructing homes, Savita, who has 5 sisters and two brothers, has a semi-constructed dwelling.
She was chosen within the Khelo India SAI centre in Patiala based mostly on her working expertise in 2021. It was there that she encountered a bicycle for the primary time.
“At the SAI centre, I saw a bicycle for the first time, I had no idea where the brakes were and all. Our coach Joginder sir explained everything to us,” recalled Sarita.
Sarita exhibited her prowess within the Junior Women’s class on the latest Asian Track Cycling Championships 2024 in New Delhi, clinching the bronze medal with a powerful closing time of 36.966 seconds. Her distinctive expertise was evident from the qualifying spherical, the place she clocked in at 36.912 seconds, securing her a nicely-deserved spot within the finals.
Besides her bronze, Sarita was additionally the a part of the ladies’s junior workforce, comprising Niya Sebastian, Zaina Mohammed, Ali Pirkhan and Sabina Kumari who created historical past by beating Korea with a powerful timing of 53.383s to win gold within the workforce dash occasion.
Sarita’s mother and father usually are not fairly conscious of what sport she is doing as she revealed that “My father knows that I play for India, but he doesn’t know exactly at what level I am and what I play. My mother still thinks that I do athletics and doesn’t know that I do cycle racing” whereas revealing that her mother and father have by no means watched her doing sports activities as they didn’t have a TV or smartphone at dwelling.
Sarita began sports activities with a fervent want to adorn her nation’s crest with medals, whatever the sport by which she competed with the goal to attain a very good job and safe a greater life-style for her people.
“I was not fond of cycling, I just wanted to win medals for India, no matter what the game. Then I got selected in cycling, so I focused on that only. I aim to win medals for my country so that I can secure a job and provide a better life for my parents.”
