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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.
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.
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.
Nov 25, 2020 · In 2006, Santhi Soundarajan became the first Tamil woman to win an Asian Games medal. Belonging to a Dalit family from Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu, she has won 12 International medals for India and 50 medals for her home state.
Mar 10, 2024 · Asiad 800-meters middle-distance runner Santhi Soundarajan had been 'stripped' of her silver medal after 'failing' a ' gender test ' in Doha, said the article in those binary, pre-woke times when ...
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.
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.
Jul 23, 2012 · In ESPN The Magazine, Samantha M. Shapiro writes about the ambiguity of gender testing in the Olympics and how India's Santhi Soundarajan got caught in the middle.
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.
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.
