73m that Seema Kaliramna had produced two months earlier. Nor did she seem particularly bothered by it.
The Bhubaneswar competition was the World Athletics Silver Level Continental Tour meet at Kalinga Stadium on August 22, her first competition after the Commonwealth Games bronze in Glasgow. In the women's discus, Commonwealth Games champion Samantha Hall was in the field along with Thailand's Subenrat Insaeng and Brazil's Andressa de Morais.
44m. 48m.
65m. “I just want to throw the discus as far as I can.
Now, it can be 60, it can be 65, it can be 70 metres, sir. Now, whether I get the medal or not, that's another story, sir.
com in an exclusive interaction ahead of the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, which begin on September 19. The 60m mark is still to come in competition, but Seema is in no hurry to force it, in fact, she laughs off the temptation to chase it too quickly.
Seema Kaliramna (Image credit: Special arrangement)“It's better if we progress slowly. If we progress completely, it gets a little messy.”
Her coach and husb and, Ravinder ‘Monu’ Kaliramna, has been working along the same lines. The plan was always to use the CWG as part of the build-up, with the Asian Games in mind.
“It is not that bad. According to the Asian Games, it is good.”
73mThat calmness took time to build. Seema was preparing for the World University Games after her marriage in 2019 and says she was throwing 54-55m in training.
A knee injury and then COVID kept her away from competition. She continued training around the same distance but could not get the competitions she needed.
Then came pregnancy and childbirth. Seema gave birth to her son Rudra in 2022.
He is now four years old. She returned to competitive competition 11 months after his birth, but the period around pregnancy and childbirth had left her dealing with severe physical problems.
After giving birth, Seema's physical problems became severe. She has described how her shoulder and hip had become frozen during pregnancy and how the condition worsened after delivery.
“At that time, I was not able to walk up to 10 meters, and I was not able to pick up my child.” “In such a condition, a person thinks that instead of living like this, it is better not to live.”
