23 Facts About Dutee Chand

Dutee Chand was born on 3 February 1996 and is an Indian professional sprinter and a former national champion in the women's 100 metres event.

In 2013, Chand was the first Indian sprinter to reach the final of the 100m event at a global youth athletics competition, and in 2016 she took part in the Rio Olympic Games.

Dutee Chand is the third Indian woman to ever qualify for the Women's 100 metres event at the Summer Olympic Games.

In 2018, Dutee Chand clinched silver in women's 100m at the Jakarta Asian Games.

Dutee Chand was at the center of a hyperandrogenism controversy in athletics.

Dutee Chand challenged these regulations, leading to a landmark case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2015, which suspended the regulations for two years, citing insufficient scientific evidence to support them.

Dutee Chand is India's first athlete to openly come out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, when she spoke in 2019 about being in a same-sex relationship.

The third of seven children, Dutee Chand was born on February 3,1996 into a below-poverty-line weaver's family in Gopalpur, a small village in the state of Odisha, one of the poorest areas in India.

At the age of four, Dutee Chand began engaging in workouts along with Saraswati on their village's local track.

In 2006, when Dutee Chand was 10 year old, they were enrolled in a government sports hostel.

Dutee Chand was no longer living at home and was training in a national program three hours away where she practiced track.

In 2012, Dutee Chand became a national champion in the under-18 category, when she clocked 11.85 seconds in the national youth junior athletic championships.

Dutee Chand appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Santhi Soundarajan, an Indian middle-distance runner, extended her support to Dutee Chand, saying that Dutee Chand should not be "victimized".

Dutee Chand said that steps should be taken to ensure Chand's return to the track.

On 25 June 2016, Dutee Chand broke the same national record twice in one day after clocking 11.24 at the XXVI International Meeting G Kosanov Memorial at Almaty, Kazakhstan, thereby qualifying for the Olympic Games.

At the 2019 Summer Universiade in Napoli, Dutee Chand won gold in the 100m race, becoming the first Indian woman sprinter to win gold at the Universiade.

Dutee Chand was the flag-bearer during the opening ceremony of the event.

In May 2019, Dutee Chand became India's first openly gay athlete as she publicly revealed that she was in a same-sex relationship.

Dutee Chand was one of the athletes whose cases were profiled in Phyllis Ellis's 2022 documentary film Category: Woman.

On 18 January 2023 it was announced that Dutee Chand had tested positive for three different prohibited substances.

In 2024 Dutee Chand announced her decision to retire from sport after competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Dutee Chand explained: "I'm growing old, I'm not as fast as I used to be".