Remember the giant leap of Indian athletics at the Paris World Championships in 2003? After opening with 6.61m, Anju Bobby George, then 26, went on to win the long jump bronze with a season’s best of 6.70m to become the first and only Indian to climb the podium at a World athletics meet.
Seventeen years later, Anju took to twitter to reveal one of the best-kept secrets: she competed all through her career with just one kidney!
“Believe it or not, I’m one of the fortunate, among the very few who reached the world top with a single KIDNEY, allergic to even a painkiller, with a dead take-off leg.. Many limitations. still made it. Can we call, magic of a coach or his talent (sic),” Anju tweeted.
Anju Bobby George, the long jump pioneer, competed with one kidney
