Kamaljeet Kaur Kooner nee Sandhu (born 20 August 1948) is a female Indian athlete who won gold medal at 1970
Bangkok Asian Games in 400 m race.
She ran the distance in 57.3 seconds. She is the first Indian woman athlete to win an individual gold medal at Asian games. She is from Punjab state in India. She received Padma Shri award in 1971.
In 1971, she was one of the finalists in the World University Games held at Turin, Italy, in 400 metres race.
She participated in the Women's 400 metres at the 1972 Munich Olympics, bowing out in the heats.
She was a star in all basketball, hockey and atheletics and went on to become the First Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Games back in 1970!
Known as the Sprint Queen of India, her winning time of 57.3 seconds in 400m was a record in itself.
She also held the 200m and 400m national records for over a decade until the like of PT Usha and Rita Sen could take inspiration and push the barriers even further.
Kamaljeet retired from athletics in 1973. She was also a national-level basketball and inter-varsity hockey
player. She went to the 1982 Asian Games as the coach of the Indian women's sprint team. She is also an alumna
of Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya
First Female IPS Officer of India | Sardarni Surjit Kaur
