Rajwinder Kaur (born 21 April 1980) is an Indian sprinter who specializes in the

400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics (sport), athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor runn ...

. Kaur finished seventh in the

4 x 400 metres relay 4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest c ...

at the

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, together with teammates

Satti Geetha Sathi Geetha (born 5 July 1983) is an Indian track and field athlete from Palakollu, Andhra Pradesh. She is a sprinter specializing in the 400 metres. Sathi Geetha was born on 5 July 1983 in Maruteru, coming from a Telugu Hindu traditional an ...

K. M. Beenamol Kalayathumkuzhi Mathews Beenamol, popularly known as K. M. Beenamol (born 15 August 1975), from Kombidinjal, Idukki district, Kerala is an international athlete from India. Professional athletics career Beenamol and her brother K. M. Binu beca ...

and

Chitra K. Soman Chitra Kulathummuriyil Soman (born 10 July 1983) was born in Kottayam, Kerala. Her father is from Kottayam and her mother is from kanjirappally, Kerala. She is an Indian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. Soman finished seventh in 4 ...

. This team, only with

Manjeet Kaur Manjeet Kaur (born 4 April 1982) is an Indian sprint athlete from Punjab who specializes in 400 metres. She held the 400 m National record of 51.05 seconds set at the National Circuit Athletic Meet held in Chennai on 16 June 2004. She brok ...

running instead of Geetha, had set a national record of 3:26.89 minutes in the heat. Kaur also ran for the Indian team who won a silver medal at the

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. Her personal best time in 400 m is 51.57 seconds, achieved in June 2004 in

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. Achievements: * Finalist, Olympics 2004, Athens (7th position) * Commonwealth Games 2006, Melbourne (silver medal) * World Police & Fire Games 2003, Barcelona (triple gold medal) * Asian Star Meet 2004, Singapore (bronze medal) * Asian Track and Field 2005, South Korea (gold medal; new meet record) * Asian Grand Prix meet 2004, Thailand (gold medal) * Asian Grand Prix Colombo 2004 (national record) * Asian grand Prix Manila 2004 (gold and bronze medal) * Indo Pak Games, Patiala (silver medal) * Invitation meets, Kharko, Ukraine (silver medal) * Invitation meet, Kiev, Ukraine (gold medal)

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* 1980 births Living people Punjabi people Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of India Indian female sprinters 21st-century Indian women 21st-century Indian people Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for India Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games {{India-athletics-bio-stub