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{{Infobox sportsperson<br />
| name = Annu Rani<br />
| image = India's Anu Rani, Javelin Throw Bronze Medalist.jpg<br />
| imagesize = 200px<br />
| caption = Rani at the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar<br />
| nationality = {{IND}}<br />
| sport = [[Track and field]]<br />
| event = [[Javelin throw]]<br />
| club = <br />
| team = India<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1992|08|28}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Meerut]], Uttar Pradesh<br />
| residence = <br />
| height = {{convert|1.65|m|ftin|abbr=on}}<br />
| weight = {{convert|63|kg|lb|abbr=on}} (2014)<br />
| pb = '''63.24 meters'''<br />(2021) '''[[List of Indian records in athletics|NR]]'''<br />
| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport| Women's athletics }}<br />
{{Medal|Country|{{IND}}}}<br />
{{Medal|Competition|[[Asian Games]]}}<br />
{{Medal|Gold|[[2022 Asian Games|2022 Hangzhou]]|[[Athletics at the 2022 Asian Games – Women's javelin throw|Javelin]]}}<br />
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2014 Asian Games|2014 Incheon]]|[[Athletics at the 2014 Asian Games – Women's javelin throw|Javelin]]}}<br />
{{Medal|Competition|[[Commonwealth Games]]}}<br />
{{Medal|Bronze| [[2022 Commonwealth Games|2022 Birmingham]]|[[Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Women's javelin throw|Javelin]]}}<br />
{{Medal|Competition|[[Asian Athletics Championships|Asian Championships]]}}<br />
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2017 Asian Athletics Championships|2017 Bhubaneswar]]|[[2017 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw|Javelin]]}}<br />
{{Medal|Silver|[[2019 Asian Athletics Championships|2019 Doha]]|[[2019 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw|Javelin]]}}<br />
{{Medal|Competition|[[South Asian Games]]}}<br />
{{Medal|Silver|[[2016 South Asian Games|2016 Guwahati]]|[[Athletics at the 2016 South Asian Games|Javelin]]}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Annu Rani Dharayan''' (born 28 August 1992) in a [[Jat]] family of Dharayan gotra. Is an Indian [[javelin throw]]er from [[Meerut]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]. She was the first Indian to reach the finals of the women's javelin throw event in the [[World Athletics Championships]], Doha, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 30, 2019|title=Annu Rani qualifies for javelin throw finals with national record effort|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/athletics/story/iaaf-world-championships-annu-rani-national-javelin-record-final-spot-1604911-2019-09-30|access-date=2021-07-27|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref> Annu had qualified for the [[2020 Summer Olympics|2020 Tokyo Olympics]] through world rankings after missing out on the Olympic Qualification mark. Her career best effort is 63.24m which helped her win the gold in the National Interstate Athletic Championship, Patiala, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 1, 2021|title=Tokyo 2020: India's women Javelin thrower Annu Rani secures Olympics quota through world rankings|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/tokyo-olympics/story/tokyo-olympics-annu-rani-women-s-javelin-thrower-annu-rani-olympic-quota-world-rankings-1821420-2021-07-01|access-date=2021-07-27|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref>In the [[2022 Commonwealth Games|2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games]], Annu Rani scripted history as she became the first Indian female javelin thrower to win a medal, a bronze.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CWG 2022: Annu Rani wins bronze, becomes first Indian female javelin thrower to win medal.|url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/athletics/cwg-2022-annu-rani-wins-bronze-becomes-first-indian-female-javelin-thrower-to-win-medal/article65741298.ece|date=2022-08-07|website=[[The_Hindu]]|language=en}}</ref> She is the first Indian Javelin thrower to win a Gold medal in Asian games 2023 at Hangzhou.<br />
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== Personal life and background==<br />
Annu Rani Dharayan was born on 28 August 1992 in a [[Jat]] family of Dharayan gotra in village bahadurpur [[Meerut]]. Her talent was identified by her brother, Upendra, who noticed her upper body strength during a cricket game. He began to train her by asking her to hurl sugarcane sticks in an empty field.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-07 |title=After throwing sugarcanes, bamboo sticks, Annu Rani now hurls javelin for CWG bronze |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/commonwealth-games/annu-rani-wins-bronze-becomes-first-indian-female-javelin-thrower-to-win-medal-in-cwg-8076454/ |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> Annu's first javelin stick was one that she crafted herself from a long piece of [[bamboo]], because she couldn't afford one. She started playing javelin throw first in the year 2010 at the age of 18. Her brother later began to pay for her training as well, despite her father's disapproval at girls pursuing sports. He finally came around to supporting Annu's talent after she proved herself by breaking the national record in 2014, and now supports her ambition.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.impactguru.com/fundraiser/annu-rani|title=Annu Rani's Quest For Gold – Impact Guru|website=impactguru.com|language=en-GB|access-date=27 July 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Nikhil|date=27 June 2017|title=Annu Rani – The Torchbearer for Indian Women in Athletics Javelin Throw|url=https://www.kreedon.com/annu-rani-torchbearer-indian-women-athletics/|access-date=27 July 2019|website=Voice of Indian Sports |language=en-GB}}</ref><br />
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==Professional achievements==<br />
Annu Rani was initially coached by [[Kashinath Naik]] and is now coached by Baljeet Singh.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Srivastava|first=Shantanu|date=13 May 2020|title=Annu Rani confident of breaching Olympic qualification mark, calls for resumption of outdoor training|url=https://www.firstpost.com/sports/annu-rani-confident-of-breaching-olympic-qualification-mark-calls-for-resumption-of-outdoor-training-8359091.html|url-status=live|access-date=18 February 2021|website=Firstpost|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514005543/https://www.firstpost.com/sports/annu-rani-confident-of-breaching-olympic-qualification-mark-calls-for-resumption-of-outdoor-training-8359091.html |archive-date=14 May 2020 }}</ref><br />
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In the 2014 National Inter-State Athletics Championship in [[Lucknow]], Rani won the gold medal with a throw of 58.83 metres, breaking a 14-year-old national record and qualifying her for the [[2014 Commonwealth Games]] where she finished [[Athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's javelin throw|eighth]]. Later in the year, she won the bronze medal at the [[2014 Asian Games|Asian Games]] in Incheon, South Korea, with a throw of 59.53 metres. Two years later she broke her own record again at the National Inter-state Athletics Championship with a throw of 60.01 metres.<ref>{{Cite web|date=27 June 2017|title=Annu Rani – The Torchbearer for Indian Women in Athletics Javelin Throw|url=https://www.kreedon.com/annu-rani-torchbearer-indian-women-athletics/|access-date=19 February 2021|website=Voice of Indian Sports – KreedOn|language=en-GB}}</ref> In March 2019, she broke her own record again with a throw of 62.34 meters at the National Senior Athletics Championships in [[Patiala]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Fed Cup athletics: Annu Rani rewrites her own Javelin Throw national record, qualifies for Worlds|url=https://scroll.in/field/916965/fed-cup-athletics-annu-rani-rewrites-her-own-javelin-throw-national-record-qualifies-for-worlds|access-date=27 July 2019|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US|agency=Press Trust of India}}</ref><br />
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Rani won the silver medal at the 23rd [[Asian Athletics Championships]] in Qatar on 21 April 2019, which qualified for the World Athletics Championship, becoming the first Indian woman javelin thrower to participate in World Athletics Championship.<ref name="Sportstar Award - The Hindu"/> She won the bronze medal at the [[International Association of Athletics Federations|IAAF]] World Challenge event [[Golden Spike Ostrava]] in Ostrava, Czech Republic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/athletics/javelin-throw-bronze-medal-for-annu-rani-at-iaaf-world-challenge-event-tokyo-olympics-2020/article28089255.ece|title=Javelin: Bronze for Annu Rani at IAAF event|website=Sportstar|language=en|access-date=27 July 2019}}</ref><br />
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She won the Sportstar Aces Sportswoman of the Year Award in Athletics in 2020.<ref name="Sportstar Award - The Hindu">{{cite web |last1=Rayan |first1=Stan |title=Annu Rani wins Sportstar Aces 2020 Sportswoman of the Year in athletics |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/aces-awards/annu-rani-wins-sportstar-aces-2020-awards-sportswoman-of-the-year-in-athletics-track-and-field/article30555926.ece |website=The Hindu |access-date=18 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref> She won the gold medal in the women's javelin throw event at the 59th National Open Athletics Championship.<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 10, 2019|title=National Open Athletics Championship: Annu Rani wins gold, Neeraj Chopra pulls out|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/athletics/story/national-open-athletics-championship-annu-rani-wins-gold-javelin-throw-neeraj-chopra-pulls-out-1608081-2019-10-10|access-date=2021-07-27|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
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*[https://olympics.com/en/athletes/annu-rani Annu Rani] at [[Olympic Games|Olympics]]<br />
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