Kiran Baliyan

Kiran was born in 1999. She is native of Purbaliyan village of Muzaffarnagar district. Her father is a head constable in the Meerut Traffic Police.^[1]

2015: In November, Indian Under-18 Athletics Championships at Ranchi, she threw 12.49m in one of her first events at the National level.^[2]

2016: In November, she threw 14.62m in the Coimbatore Indian U20/U18/U16 Championships to take third place.

2017: On May 6, she threw 15 metres and announced her arrival at a meet at Obra. Later in November 2017, she came first once again in Vijayawada in the Under-20 Indian Championships with a 14.54 throw. A month later, at Mangalagiri in December, she threw 14.37 to take the first place again.^[2]

2018: In April, she threw 15.23 at the Indian Under-20 Championships in Coimbatore to finish first.^[2] In the same year she made her international debut at Sri Lanka, and finished first with a throw of 14.77 at the South Asian U-20 Championships, Colombo. Later, she represented India at the Asian Junior Championships, Gifu but could only finish fifth.^[2]

2020: She set a national record of 17.14 meters at the 2022 National Games of India, winning gold at the women's shot put competition.^[3] Same year, she also won gold at the 2020 national inter-university athletics meet, representing Chaudhary Charan Singh University.^[4]

2023: She won a bronze medal at the 2022 Asian Games with a throw distance of 17.36m.^[5]