Duttee Chand wins three golds in National Open Athletics

Kolkata: Promising Indian sprinter Duttee Chand, who recently won a landmark gender case against the world athletics governing body IAAF, may head to Chula Vista High Performance Training Centre in the United States in her bid to make the cut for Rio Olympics 2016.

 

The 19-year-old Railways sprinter on Saturday completed a treble at the National Open Athletics Meet here by winning the 200m and 4x100m relay gold in addition to her 100m dash title earlier.

 

Dutee later said that she had spoken to Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal who has assured her of three months foreign training to achieve the Olympic standard.

 

“I told him (the sports minister) that I need a minimum of three months’ foreign training to achieve 23.20s in 200m. I told him I want to go to Chula Vista and he has promised me to send there,” Dutee said.