Chithunzi: Twitter Wobadwa mu 1960 ndipo akuchokera ku Ottathai, Kerala's Kannur district, Manathoor Devasai Valsamma, yemwe amadziwika kuti MD Valsamma, ndi wothamanga wonyada wopuma pantchito waku India lero. Iye ndi mkazi woyamba waku India kupeza mendulo ya golide pamwambo wapadziko lonse lapansi ku India komanso wachiwiri wachi India wothamanga pambuyo pa Kamaljeet Sandhu kuti aliyense payekha apambane golide pa Masewera aku Asia. Nthawi yake yodziwika bwino ya masekondi 58.47 pamasewera a 400 metres pabwalo la Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi idamutsogolera kuti apambane mendulo yagolide pa Masewera aku Asia a 1982. Wothamanga adakhala ngwazi yadziko lonse ndi mbiri yatsopanoyi yomwe inali yabwino kuposa mbiri yaku Asia!
Valsamma anali kuchita masewera kuyambira ali kusukulu koma adatsimikiza za izi ndikuyamba kuchita ngati ntchito atapita kukaphunzira ku Mercy College, Palakkad, Kerala. Anapambana mendulo yake yoyamba ku boma pampikisano wa 100 metres hurdles ndi pentathlon, mpikisano wothamanga womwe umakhala ndi mitundu isanu yosakanikirana - zopinga za 100 mita, kulumpha kwautali, kuwombera, kulumpha kwakukulu ndi kuthamanga kwa mita 800. Mendulo yoyamba ya moyo wake idadutsa mu Inter-University Championship, Pune ku 1979. Posakhalitsa, adalembetsa ku Southern Railways of India ndipo adaphunzitsidwa ndi A. K. Kutty, mphunzitsi wothamanga wotchuka yemwe adapatsidwa mphoto ya Dronarcharya mu 2010.
Kumayambiriro kwa ntchito yake yamasewera, Valsamma adapambana mamendulo asanu agolide chifukwa chochita bwino pamlingo wa 100 metres, 400 metres hurdles, 400 metres flat and 400 metres, ndi 100 mita ku Inter-State Meet, Bangalore mu 1981. Kupambana kodabwitsa kumeneku adamutsogolera kumagulu amtundu komanso ku Railways. Mu 1984, kwa nthawi yoyamba, gulu la akazi anayi a ku India linalowa komaliza ku Los Angeles Olympics, ndipo Valsamma anali mmodzi wa iwo, pamodzi ndi P.T. Usha ndi Shiny Wilson. Koma Valsamma sanali m'maganizo abwino masewera a Olimpiki asanachitike, chifukwa chosowa othamanga padziko lonse lapansi. Kuphatikiza apo, mphunzitsi wake Kutty adachotsedwa mochedwa, zomwe zidapangitsa kuti azikhala ndi nthawi yochepa yochita masewera olimbitsa thupi komanso zomwe zidamupangitsa kuti asamakonzekere bwino. Panali masewera ambiri ampikisano asanachitike Olimpiki pakati pa iye ndi P.T. Usha, yemwe adakula kwambiri, koma ubwenzi wawo wakunja udawathandiza kusunga mgwirizano ndi ulemu ngakhale munthawi zovutazo. Ndipo Valsamma anali wokondwa kwambiri kuwona Usha akukwaniritsa zopinga za 400 metres, pomwe adachotsedwa mumpikisano woyamba pamasewera a Olimpiki. Makamaka, gululi lidapeza malo achisanu ndi chiwiri pampikisano wa 4X400 metres pamwambowu.
Pambuyo pake, Valsamma anayamba kuyang'ana kwambiri pa zovuta za mamita 100 ndipo adapanganso mbiri ina ya dziko pa Masewera a Dziko Loyamba mu 1985. Mu ntchito yamasewera yomwe inatenga zaka pafupifupi 15, adapambana mendulo za golide, siliva, zamkuwa ku Spartkiad 1983, South Asia. Federation (SAF) pamasewera atatu osiyanasiyana. Adatenga nawo gawo pamisonkhano ya World Cup ku Havana, Tokyo, London, ku Asia Games ku 1982, 1986, 1990 ndi 1994 m'mayendedwe onse aku Asia. Anasiya chizindikiro chake pampikisano uliwonse popambana mamendulo angapo.
Boma la India lidapatsa Valsamma Mphotho ya Arjuna mu 1982 komanso mphotho ya Padma Shri mu 1983 chifukwa chakuthandizira kwake komanso kuchita bwino kwambiri pamasewera. Analandiranso mphotho ya ndalama ya G. V. Raja kuchokera ku Boma la Kerala. Umenewu unali ulendo wa Valsamma pamasewera othamanga, nkhani yolimbikitsa mpaka lero chifukwa adanyadira India!
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