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- Kerala-based long jumper and Olympian Anju Bobby George has bagged the BBC lifetime achievement award for best athlete in India.
- Anju Bobby George is a native of Changanassery in Kottayam of Kerala.
- Anju bagged a bronze medal by clearing 6.70 m in the long jump at the World Athletic Championship 2003 in Paris.
- She is the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in the world athletics championship.
- Chess champion Grandmaster Koneru Humpy bagged the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the year 2021 award.
- The Shooting star Manu Bhaker won the BBC’s emerging player of the year award.
- In 2020, BBC honoured Olympian PT Usha from Kerala with the lifetime achievement award.
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