Athletics is a global sport and is very popular in the sporting scene. It is considered as the mother of all sports. Our city athlete Thippavva Sannakki is a talented athlete who excels in the long distance running events, and has been performing consistently well in the State and National-level Meets. Thippavva Sannakki, recently taking part in the State-level Dasara Athletic Meet-2016, emerged as the Individual champion in the women’s section with 10 points (two golds) along with two other women athletes, B.M. Jyothi and Nityashree of Bengaluru City. Thippavva Sannakki, representing Mysuru Division, won the 1500m gold and 3000m gold and also was part of the Mysuru division team which won the Overall championship title. She is our “Star This Week.”

Thippavva Sannakki, a employee with the South Western Railways, Mysuru, is a former product of the DYES (Mysuru). Thippavva has represented the State in the National-level and has also represented Indian Railways in the National athletic meets.

Thippavva Sannakki won the 1500m gold with timing of 5:04.00s. She also won the 3000m gold with timing of 10:47.80s. She helped Mysuru Division finish runner-up in the women’s athletics events in the Dasara Games with two golds and also shared the Individual Championship title with two other athletes.

She has trained under the guidance of former International and SAK athletic coach Damodar Gowda while she was at the DYES (Mysuru). Thippavva Sannakki has represented Karnataka in the National-level and has won medals in the senior as well in the junior level.

Thippavva has been a regular medal winner in the long distance events in the State-level Dasara Meets every year.

She took part in the DAC Road Races for women this year and won the women’s title. She has been the winner for four years in a row in the previous years. An All-India Inter-University medalist representing Mysore University, this girl has the talent in her to improve on her performance in the National level. Thippavva is a talented athlete and with her dedicated hard work aims to perform well in the National-level in the days to come.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / October 09th, 2016