Pramila Aiyappa
Pramila Gudanda Aiyappa (née Ganapathy) (born 8 March 1977 in Kodagu, Karnataka) is an Indian heptathlete. She made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed 24th in the women's heptathlon event, with a total score of 5,548 points.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Aiyappa made a comeback from her eight-year absence to compete for the second time in women's heptathlon, along with fellow athletes Shobha Javur and Susmita Singha Roy. She initially placed 28th out of 43 heptathletes in the event, with a total score of 5,771 points, but was elevated to a single higher position, when Ukraine's Lyudmila Blonska was stripped of her silver medal after testing positive for methyltestosterone.
Aiyappa represented the host nation India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, where she almost missed out of medal contention in the heptathlon, finishing only in fifth place, with a total score of 5,330 points.
She has been actively coaching upcoming athletes, along with her husband Sri Aiyappa.
Aiyappa with her husband Sri Aiyappa at the Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, 9 July 2019References
External links
- Pramila Aiyappa at World Athletics
- NBC 2008 Olympics profile