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Santhi Soundarajan (also spelled Shanthi Soundararajan, born 17 April 1981) is a track and field athlete from Tamil Nadu, India. She is the winner of 12 international medals for India and around 50 medals for her home state of Tamil Nadu .
Jan 4, 2017 · A decade after she was stripped off a medal for failing a 'gender test' during the Doha Asian Games in 2006, Santhi Soundarajan will file charges of human rights violation against the authorities, including Athletics Federation of India and Indian Olympic Association.
Dec 16, 2022 · Santhi Soundarajan went from hero to outcast in the space of a week, after failing a gender test at the 2006 Asian Games.
The Indian story on the fight to run starts from Santhi Soundarajan. The middle-distance runner, her quick rise and fall, had rocked the athletics world twelve years ago.
Oct 17, 2016 · After a decade-long struggle, a part of athlete Santhi Soundarajan's sporting glory has been restored, easing her fall from glory after she failed a gender test and descended into hardship.
Mar 13, 2024 · Someone who embodied courage, a person who realized the impossible, a woman who made her nation proud has been tortured and made to endure the curses of a million who never dawned on the arena ...
Nov 21, 2023 · As if someone wanted to erase every memory of Santhi Soundarajan, the athlete who won twelve international medals for India. What remains are the news stories, the photographs, the online archive of her competitions and times, and her own private memories.
Former international athlete and coach Santhi Soundarajan had filed a case against her former colleague at the Tamil Nadu Sports Development Authority, Rajan Abraham, in September 2018 alleging...
Dec 20, 2016 · Athlete Santhi Sounderarajan, who was stripped of her Asian Games gold medal in 2010 for failing a gender test, has finally been confirmed in her gove.
Nov 23, 2016 · Santhi Soundarajan realizes that a gender-test cannot take away from her who she is, as she advised a South African track athlete who fell the same way she did.
