5 fastest Indian runners of all time

Rajeev Balakrishnan was one of India’s best track athletes in the 1990s.

#4 Rachita Mistry (11.38 seconds)

Rachita Mistry won the Gold medal in the 100m race at the Asian Athletics Championshipconducted in Indonesia in the year 2000.

Rachita Mistry was one of India’s most prominent faces in track and field events a couple of decades ago. In 2000, at the National Circuit Athletic Meet conducted in Thiruvananthapuram, she set the national record for 100m sprint, before it was broken by Joseph 13 years later.

Mistry was at the forefront of the Indian track and field picture in the late 1990s and early 2000s. At the Asian Athletic Championships in 1998 held at Fukuoka in Japan, she was a part of the Indian 4X100m relay team that won the Gold. The 44.43 second timing that the team clocked for the Gold remains a National record.

Mistry also went on to win the Gold medal in the 100m individual event at the Asian Athletics Championships conducted in Jakarta in 2000.

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