V. S. Surekha

V. S. Surekha

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V. S. Surekha Profile

  • Name:
  • V. S. Surekha
  • Other Name:
  • Surekha Vazhalipilli Suresh
  • Born:
  • August 14, 1984
  • Spouse:
  • Renjith Maheshwary

V. S. Surekha Biography

V. S. Surekha is an Indian athlete from Kerala. Known as a pole vaulter, she is famed as the first Indian female pole vaulter who cleared 4.00 meters. Surekha is known as an ace track and field athlete and she is married to Renjith Maheshwary, National record holder of triple jump. Surekha too holds a National level record in pole vault. She holds the current national record of 4.15 m, and she bettered her own 8-year record in National Open Championships held at New Delhi in 2014. She made this record at the age of 30, after a few setbacks of the previous season. She erased her own earlier record of 4.08m which she had set in October 2006 at Patiala. She is one among the best female athletes of India in the recent times.

 

Surekha Vazhalipilli Suresh is a native of Kerala. She was born on 14 August 1984. She has been the flag-bearer for Women’s Pole Vault in India for over 10 years. She also has a habit of winning nearly every meet she competes. She set her first National record at the 43rd Open National Athletic Championship in Bangalore on 28 September 2003, where she set the record of 3.51 m. It was followed by a new meet record of 3.45 m at the third National Federation Cup Junior Athletic Meet held at Chennai.

 

In 2004, she improved her own record by vaulting 3.55 m at Standard Chartered Open National Athletics in Mumbai, followed by recording another National record at Delhi with a height of 3.70 m. But later her arch rival Chetna Solanki created a new record. But she created history on 5th September 2006 by vaulting 4.08m at Patiala in 2006, thus becoming the first Indian female athlete to clear 4.00m.

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Updated: March 20, 2016

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