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P. T. Usha
Sign in to saveAlso known as Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, Payyoli Express, Pilavullakandi Thekkevarambil Usha, Pilavullakandi Thekkeraparambil Usha
Indian track and field athlete
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1964
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Golden girl
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- India
- Active from
- 1980-05-29
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,188x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,175x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,699x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Nickname s
- Golden Girl, Payyoli Express
- Nationality
- Indian
- Born
- Pilavullakande Thekkeparambil Usha , ( 1964-06-27 ) 27 June 1964 (age 61) , Koothali , Perambra , Kerala , India
- Years active
- 1976–2000
- Height
- 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
- Spouse
- V. Srinivasan ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1991 ; died 30 January 2026</span>"}]]}'>2026 )
- Preceded by
- Narinder Dhruv Batra
- Nominated by
- Ram Nath Kovind
- Constituency
- Nominated ( Sports )
- Sport
- Track and field
- Event
- Sprints
- Personal bests
- 100 m : 11.39 ( Jakarta 1985), 200 m : 23.05 ( Lucknow 1999), 400 m : 51.61 ( Canberra 1985), 400 m hurdles : 55.42 NR , ( Los Angeles 1984)
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired-Soccer
- Position
- Attacking Midfield
- Nationality
- Russia
via TheSportsDB
~9 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha (born 27 June 1964) is an Indian sports administrator, parliamentarian and retired track and field athlete. She was born in Koothali near Perambra in Kozhikode district, Kerala, and grew up in Payyoli. Usha has been associated with Indian athletics since 1979. She has won a total of four gold and seven silver medals in the Asian Games. She is often associated as the "Queen of Indian track and field".
In July 2022, she was nominated as a Member of Parliament to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. In December 2022, she was elected president of the Indian Olympic Association unopposed. That same month, she was appointed to the panel of Rajya Sabha vice-chairman to control the proceedings of the upper house during the absence of both Chairman and Deputy Chairman. Usha is the first nominated parliamentarian in history to become the vice-chairperson of the Rajya Sabha.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “P. T. Usha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.