The ‘Dhing Express’ has chugged along the global athletics map, having won key medals and national glory.
Sprinter Hima Das’ first coach was her father, a rice farmer.
So, when they used to go out running at 4am during her formative years, they used to sprint through paddy fields.
Later in the day, it was in those very rice fields, she helped her father out by ploughing the land.
Her village near the Assamese town of Dhing didn’t have a running track and young Hima Das had to make do with what she had.
But in that little village, the seeds of athlete Hima Das were also sown
She became the first Indian woman — indeed the first ever Indian athlete — to win a gold medal in any format of a global track event at IAAF World U20 Championships when she clocked a speed of 51.46 seconds.

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