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New Delhi: Career-Defining Fresh from Silver Medal Men’s 800 meter race In 2023 Asian Athletics Championship In Bangkok, three -time national champion Krishna Kumar earned ticket World Athletics Championship That year later in Budapest.
As part of his preparation, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) sent him along with Avinash Sebal, Parul Chaudhary and Ajay Kumar Saroj for a training camp in Switzerland, but he was in an early shock.
“Climate was very cold,” Krishna tells Timesofindia.com During a special conversation. “While doing some recurrence, I rotated my ankle and tore a ligament.”
With the World Championship, in a few days, he could barely jog, compete alone. Physio Mayur ThakurHowever, insisted, and Krishna tapped the ankle, took the painkillers, and ran away.
“I was really mentally down, but then I thought,” I have come to run all this to run in the World Championship. At least I must go to the early line, “he says.
He ended in 1:50, below his individual best of 1: 45.88, achieved during his silver-clinning race in Asian Athletics C’Ships. With the Asian Games only weeks away, Krishna was immediately sent back to India. He started his rehabilitation fiercely, including daily swimming, light jog and constant push through pain.

The 27 -year -old attended the 800 meter race at the Asian Games and despite cleaning the heat, his injured ankle caught him back to the main event. The dream of an Asian game medal disappeared. However, the worst was yet to come.
“I soon returned to training because I wanted to compete in the Olympics,” he sighs. “Then one day, during a session, my already weakened ankle. This time, it was not one. Three ligaments were completely torn, and there was also a small fracture.”
For a few days, Krishna was allowed to rebel to the national camp, but when the new list came out, his name was missing. At the same time, agitated and hurt, he called and recited the people they had known for years: friends, coaches, officers. Some did not respond, some responded and never called back.
“I am not speaking against anyone. I requested to add those calls to the list, but gradually, they stopped choosing my call, responding to my texts,” he remembers.
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There are villages of Krishna on the outskirts of Bhiwani district of Haryana, which have no proper track or ground. Tagore joined the Indian Army in 1997 after completing his schooling from Senior Secondary School when he was in his 12th standard at the age of 17 years and 8 months.
“We had no resources. My father worked in the fields. The army gave me a way,” he tells him.

After the army, sports came into the life of the farmer.
“My first inspiration was the recruitment race of the army; 300–400 boys pushed me to barely train,” they say. “In 2018, I saw 2:08. Then one day, I watched a video of Jinson Johnson that was going on 1: 45.99. It inspired me. I thought, ‘I want to run like that.”
Thus, in its athletic career so far, there have not been many failures, stopping one.

Return of Krishna Kumar

When the call to ensure a permanent rehabilitation station was unliked, the sprinter was advised to undergo surgery. Surgery? Krishna often thought about it, but the money was tight.
He says, “I had already borrowed a little from friends and spent all this on training. I had not enough for surgery. If I had asked my father, he could also borrow,” he says.
Then he made a hard call and opted for rehabilitation. Under the guidance of Mayur Thakur, he committed to complete recovery and could release surgery.
“I was injured and isolated, even slipped into depression several times. But I reminded myself that I was a village boy, who started as a soldier in the army. I had to return at any cost. Through exercise, I slowly set my ankle,” Naib Sabdar In the Indian Army.

After more than a year, Krishna returned to the Indian Grand Prix in March this year, and in the men’s 800 meters, he first came to see a solid 1:47.
Solo, Krishna, in the Indian Army track in OT, Tamil Nadu, has set its places on the Asian Athletics Championships, where he will compete in South Korea from 27 May to 31 May.
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In Krishna’s words, however, his return is not only governed by training, but a quiet word from home: “My mother has never gone to school, but she keeps telling me, ‘Don’t look back. Don’t look back. Whatever is right or wrong, he will come out, but keep moving forward.” She cannot be educated, but her words give me strength.