19-year-old Indian American Krishna Jayasankar representing the University of Texas at El Paso is now the second Indian woman shot-putter to break the 15m barrier and won the silver medal at the Conference USA Indoor meet that occurred, Feb. 19-20.
Training at TX, for her, has been about a series of lifting, bar repetitions on the push press, squats, and supporting exercises to intensify the strength. She had started the season at 14.10m, and over a series of meets, hit the 15-meter mark It makes her the second Indian woman, the first being Manpreet Kaur from Ambala, who threw 15.21meter in2016 at the championship in Doha.
Jaysankar was a student of SBOA School and Junior College in Chennai where she began her athletic career, though she had yearned for it from her 6th grade. With motivation from her parents, Prasanna Jayasankar and Jayasankar Menon, both of are well-known Indian basketball players, she pursued her love for throwing.
Her broad physique is stated to have embarrassed her in earlier days, but she soon learned to corral it for sport. She went to Jamaica to train and develop needed skills.
Coming on an academic scholarship to the University of Texas gave growth to her sporting career.
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